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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
69. Peziza (Kymenoscypha) pallido-vizescens. Phillips Elvellacei 
Brit. No. 122. 
Scattered or gregarious, stipitate, tough, pallid green ; cup 
patelliform, often convex, margin quite entire ; stipes slender, 
somewhat flexuous, often villose, more or less elongated, slightly 
attenuate below, immersed in the earth ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia elliptic, '015 X *005 mm.; paraphyses filiform, filled 
with globules. 
On dead twigs and petioles of Acer lying on the ground. 
Spring. Shrewsbury. 
70. Peziza (IlfXollisia) IKEercuxialis. (Fckl) 
Niptera Mercurialis, Fckl, Symb. Myc., p. 293. 
Cups sessile, half a line broad, at first closed and globose, then 
open, nearly plane, externally black, squamulose ; margin conni- 
vent, whitish, fimbriate, disc grey ; asci oblongo-clavate ; sporidia 
obliquely uniseriate, sub-cylindrical, straight; hyaline, •OIX'002 
mm. 
On dead stems of Mercurialis perennis. April. Shrewsbury. 
* Peziza miliazis. Wallr. 
The specimen we referred to this species, “ Grevillea,” vol. iv., 
p. 121., turns out to be a distinct thing, and belongs to the section 
Mollisia. We distinguish it as follows : — 
71. Peziza (IVIollisia) epithalina. n. s. 
Congregated, sessile, disciform, immarginate, pallid-white or 
yellowish-white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia eight, oblongo- 
elliptic, •008X'002 mm. ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened 
upwards. 
On the thallus of Peltigera canina. 
72. Helotium advenulum. Phillips. El. Brit. No. 133. 
Scattered or gregarious, very minute, stipitate, tough, white 
or yellowish-white ; cup somewhat concave or plane ; stipes equal, 
slender; asci cylindraceo-clavate, sporidia 8, uniseriate, oblougo- 
elliptic, '008 x '0025 mm. 
On leaves of larch. Spring. Trefrew, North Wales. 
73. Dezmatea Houghtonii Phillips. El. B/it. No. 144. 
Solitary or ciespitose, erumpent, turbinato-stipitate yellow, 
becoming brown ; at first globose, then plane or convex, immargi- 
nate, pruinose ; asci broadly clavate, thick walls ; '135 X *023 
mm. ; sporidia oblong- ovate, often unequal sided, greenish- 
hyaline, plasma forming nuclei, or becoming spuriously tri-septate ; 
paraphyses linear, branched. 
The cups break through transverse slits in the bark forming 
elongated groups, arising from a common stroma ; within they are 
cinnamon yellow. 
On Portugal Laurel. Autumn. Lilleshall, Shropshire. Rev. 
W. Houghton. 
73.* Cenangium Ezicae. Fr. Syst. Mycol. ii., p. 188. 
On Calluna vulgaris. Near Shrewsbury. May, 1877. 
