NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
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var. flavodisca, Cke. Sf Mass. 
At first rather top shaped, from the presence of a short obconical 
stem, disc yellow, sporidia 40-45 X 17-20 p, uniguttulate, paraphyses 
clavate at the tips. External hairs septate, smooth, 1 50 yu long, 
6 p thick. 
On the ground, among moss. Ben Lawers, 2,500 feet. 
Trichopeziza nidulus, Schm. <${ Kze. ; var. macrospora, Cke. 
Mass. 
Cups as in the type, sporidia rather fusoid, rounded at the ends, 
12-14 x 4 ix. 
On Spiraea ulmaria. Carlisle. 
Various measurements are given by authors of the sporidia of 
T. nidulus , from 5 x 1 p in Rehm’s specimens, 4 x 2 fx of Fuckel, 
to 6-10 x l£ /* of Nylander, 5-10 X 1 p of Phillips, and 8-12 x 
1-1| p of Saccardo. None of these have sporidia so long or so 
broad as the above variety, which is of sufficient importance to 
claim notice as a very distinct form. 
Pseudohelotium farinaceum, Cke. 8f Mass. 
Gregarious, thin, waxy, rather tough. Cups sessile or sub- 
sessile, yellowish horn colour, at first hemispherical, then expanded, 
covered externally with pruinose white mealiness, attached by 
a papillate central point to the matrix, margin entire, flexuous, 
strongly connivent when dry ; disc glaucous or dirty white, asci 
cylindrical, octosporous, sporidia cylindrical, straight, hyaline, 
minute, 4 x 1 p, paraphyses filiform. 
On bark of willow. Carlisle. 
Cups 1-2 m.m. broad, stem very short or obsolete. 
XVIasseea quisquiliarum, B. C. 
Yellow, cup-shaped, sessile, margin indexed, disc concave, 
reddish yellow, asci clavate, octosporous, sporidia fusiform, curved, 
triseptate, 25 x 6-7 fx , hyaline, even, paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza quisquiliarum, Berk, fy Curt., Cuba Fungi , No. 670, Cooke, 
Myco.,f. 37, Sacc., No. 2017. 
On vegetable debris. Carlisle. 
Cups 2-5 m.m. broad. Exactly like the original specimens from 
Cuba. 
Belonium myriadeum, Cke. Mass. 
Densely gregarious, cups minute, sooty black, scarcely £ m.m. 
broad, urceolate, at first nearly closed, then concave when moist, 
connivent when dry, smooth at the margin and paler, towards the 
base furnished with long, branching, dark brown septate hairs, 
which radiate and form a dense blackish subiculum, asci clavate, 
cylindrical, sporidia fusiform, acute at each end, straight or curved, 
nucleate, then triseptate, 25-30 X 4-5 /x, hyaline, paraphyses fili- 
form. 
On branches of Ulex. Carlisle. 
