13RITISH DlSCoMYOfiTKS. 
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Exs. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 835. 
On leaves of Eriophorum augustifolium. April. 
Cups 300-500 p broad. The hairs of the cup are colourless, 
straight, 40-50 p long, and about 4 p broad, obtuse, simple, and 
granular within. 
Near Aberdeen I April 28, 1887. Professor Jas. W. H. 
Trail. No. 26. 
Lachnella puberula, Lasch. 
Minute, scattered, or gregarious, sessile, plane, or slightly con- 
cave, minutely pubescent, white, asci clavate ; sporidia 8, oblongo- 
elliptic, or sub-fusiform, hyaline, 7-10 x 3-4 p ; paraphyses 
slenderly filiform, sparse. 
Peziza puberula , Lasch in Klotcli Herb. Myco. 
Pseudohelotium puberulum, Fckl. Symb. p. 298. 
Exs. Klot. Herb. Myc. No. 1529 ; Helotium puberulum , 
Fckl. F. Rh. 1150 ; Cooke Fung. Brit. ed. i., 574. 
On fallen oak leaves. Autumn and winter. 
Cups 300-400 p broad ; the hairs are slender, simple, short, 
hyaline, deciduous with age, 3-4 p long, 2 p broad. Nearly allied 
to Lachnella fugiens , but differing in the larger asci and sporidia. 
Handsworth, near Birmingham ! Mr. W. B. Grove, King’s 
Norton 1 W. B. Grove. 
Patellaria sphaerospora, B. Sf C. 
Scattered or crowded, applinate, margined, black, rather thin; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, sub-sphserical, elliptic, or 
sub-pyriform, brown, uni-guttulate, 7-9 p or 10 x 6 /x ; 
paraphyses filamentous. 
Patellaria sphcerospora, B. & C. Cooke Disco. U.S. p. 26 
(without description). Kew Herbarium No. 4460 ; Herb. Berk. ; 
Sacc. Sylloge p. 790. 
On dead wood. 
Cups | to 1 line broad : the variable form of the sporidia is 
remarkable. 
This species of Berkeley and Curtis, found by the latter in 
Lower Carolina, U.S., original specimens of which exist in the 
Kew Herbarium, has occurred in the New Forest, Hampshire, 
and was sent me in March last by Miss Beatrice Taylor, Old 
House, Ringwood. 
Schmitzomia Luzuloe (Lib.). 
var. Junci, Karst. 
Scattered, erumpent, then more or less protuberant, orbicular, 
urceolate, at first closed, then open ; whitish, margin nearly entire, 
powdery-white ; hymenium rosy, or pale orange colour ; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia 8, filiform, adherent, multiseptate, 120-130 
X 1-1, 5 p ; paraphyses abundant, slenderly filiform. 
Schmitzomia Luzuloe, var. Junci , Karst. Myco. Fenn. p. 238 ; 
Stictis Luzuloe , var. Junci, Karst. Revisio Mon. p. 166. Sacc. 
Syll. p. 692. 
