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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
On dead thornwood. Scarboro’. Mr G. E. Massee. 
Cups -2 mm. broad, clothed with very minute white hair, which 
break up at the joints into two or three oblong portions. 
265. Peziza (Dasyscypha) prasina, Quelet. 
Cups sessile, applanate, thin, waxy, soft, olivaceous, clothed with 
flexuous, hyaline, afterwards fiery-red hairs ; hymenium plane, 
greenish-brown, then of a beautiful green, at length becoming pale ; 
sporidia fusiform, curved (-012 mk.) Lachnella prasina , Quelet. 
Asso. Franc, l’avan. des sc. 1880. 
On Glyceria fluitans. Mr. Cedric Bucknall. 
266. Peziza callunigena. Karst. 
Cup solitary, subglobose, sessile, blackish-brown, naked, striate, 
mouth connivent ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, filiform, attenuated 
at the apices, straight, simple or faintly 3-septate (‘04-*06 X *0025 
mk.); paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened above. 
On branches of Calluna vulgaris. Near Clunbury, Salop. 1882. 
Karst., Mongr., Pers. p. 171. Crumenula callunigena Karst., 
Myco. Fenn, p. 212. 
Cups £ of a line broad. Seated on a brown tapesium, and re- 
sembles externally Peziza Posce, Pez. 
267. Peziza (Bflollisia) Mali ( Behni ). 
Gregarious, small, at first globose, then urceolate, finally more 
or less expanded ; margin when dry involute, paler, scabrous ; 
disc greenish-yellow ; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 
*009 X *003 mk. Paraphyses filiform. Pezizella Mali , Rehm. 
Ascomycetes No. 460. 
On dead holly bark. Near Shrewsbury. 
268. Peziza (Mollisea) filicum, Phil. n. s. 
Gregarious, minute, at first globose, then cupulate, at length ex- 
panded, white, glabrous ; asci clavato-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 
oblongo-elliptical, straight or curved, 2-3 nucleate, becoming 
pseudo 1-2 septate ; paraphyses extremely slender. 
On stems of Lastrea Filix-mas. Shobden, Herefordshire. 
Cups 1-3 mm. broad. 
This differs from Peziza Aspidiicola , B. & Br. in the perfectly 
glabrous exterior of the cups, and the much larger and nucleated 
sporidia. 
269. Peziza (Mollisea) jugosa, n. s. 
Crowded, globose, vertically rugose, scabrous, black, mouth con- 
tracted, disc cinereous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8 ; oblongo-elliptical 
or fusiform, 3-5 nucleate, becoming 3-5 pseudo-septate, *014- 
*018 X *003 -*005 mk. Paraphyses numerous, adherent. 
On dead herbaceous stems. King’s Lynn. 
Cups 2 mm. broad. This is near P. atrata. 
270. Helotium rhodoleucum Fr. Sys. Myc. ii. 127. 
Stipitate, slender, rosy-white, disc plane, stem equal; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 4 to 8, oblongo-elliptical, ‘Ol-’O^ 
X •004-005 mk. Paraphyses filiform. 
Substance watery pellucid ; stem glabrous, 1 line long, frequently 
reaching to 3 lines. Cup orbicular, entire, 1-2 lines broad. 
