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202. Helotium menthae Phil. Elv. Brit,, No. 188. 
Scattered, stipitate, at first convex, then applanate, disk egg- 
yellow , margin paler ; the under side of cups and slender stem 
white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, often pointed at the summit ; 
sporidia broadly fusiform, acute at one extremity, sometimes at 
both, often curved, two to four nuclei, or spuriously uniseptate, 
‘014--02 X -OOS-'OOS; paraphyses filiform. 
On dead stems of Mentha. Shrewsbury. 
203. Helotium sulphuratum (Flo. Dan., Pez. sulphurata, t. 1915, 
f. 2), Phillips, El. Brit., No. 189. 
Scattered, turbinate, or with a stout stem, often seated on a 
white floccose tapesium, disc depressed or concave, egg-yellow, 
externally white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, obtuse at the summit ; 
sporidia 8, biseriate, fusiform, acute at the ends, curved, two to 
four nuclei ; paraphyses filiform often branched from near the base 
On decaying pine leaves. Cawdor Castle, Scotland. Sept. 
204. Ascobolus (Saccobolus) neglectus. Bond. 
Very minute, at first globose, then flattened, glabrous, whitish 
or cinereous, sometimes tinged with purple, paler at the base ; disc 
fulvus, appearing black by reason of the exserted asci ; paraphyses 
simple or branched, scarcely thickened at the apex, hyaline, septate ; 
asci minute, broad, narrowed at the base, hyaline ; sporidia oblongo- 
-subacuminate, varying from roseate to greyish- violet, ’01 5- ‘01 9 X 
’006--008 mm. 
King’s Lynn. April, 1876. On rabbit dung, Leigh Wood, 
Bristol. Mr. C. Bucknall, June, 1881. 
205. Ascobolus (Thecotheus) Pelletieri, Cronan. 
Scattered or crowded, conical at first, then cylindrical, at length 
applanate ; greyish or greyish-lilac ; externally clothed with an 
excessively subtile white pruina ; paraphyses slender, longer than 
the asci, septate, hyaline, divided at the base ; asci elongated, 
large, broad, with a subumbonate operculum ; sporidia 32, hyaline, 
large, elliptical-subucuminate^ *027 X 014 mm. 
Grown under glass, Bristol. Mr. C. Bucknall. On horse 
dung, Scarborough. Mr. Massee. 
206. Patellaria connivens, Fr. Systema, v. n., y. 151, Karsten , Myco. 
Fen.,p , 234 / Phillips , El. Brit., No. 190. 
Gregarious, minute, sessile, disc depressed, black or rufescent, 
margin thin, when dry compressed and deformed ; asci broadly- 
clavate ; sporidia 8, oblongo-fusiform, six to eight nuclei ; para- 
physes filiform, very slender, branched from near the base, abundant. 
On decorticated wood. Shrewsbury. 
207. Patellaria Hyperici, Phillips , El. Brit., No. 191. 
Gregarious, very minute, innato-sessile, applanate, immarginate, 
glabrous, blackish-brown ; asci broadly clavate; sporidia biseriate, 
oblongo-fusiform, triseptate, *017-*02 X •OuS-'OOS mm., paraphyses 
filiform. 
On dead stems of Hypericum. Shrewsbury. 
