674 310. Hymen. 1 1. HYMENOTHECEiE. Pl.cell.aph. 
7. Hymenoscyphus cyathoideus. Cyaihuslike fruit-cup. 
Thalli in clusters, whitish or pale brown; stem long, 
rather thicker at bottom; cup glass-shape, unarmed, rather 
slender. 
Peziza cyathoidea, Bull. Champ. 250; Persoon Syn. 662. 
Peziza solani, Persoon Ohs . 2, 80. 
On dry stems of large herbs ; autumn. 
8. Hymenoscyphus tenellus. Very -tender fruit- cup. 
Thalli in clusters, very minute, funnelshape, tender, 
snow-white growing yellow ; stem threadlike. 
Peziza tenella, Batsch Fungi , 150. 
On dry stems of large herbs; autumn. 
9. Hymenoscyphus chrysocomus. Gold-head fruit-cup . 
Thalli in clusters, globular becoming flat, dull yellow, 
smooth, brittle, thin. 
Peziza chrysocoma, Sowerby Fungi , 152. 
On bits of wood, especially the under side. 
Q. AscoBOLiDEiE. Thallus fleshy; hymenium smooth, 
expanded over the surface; sporidia clubshape, intermixed 
with barren filaments, flung out with force, usually con- 
taining three sporae in each. 
LXIX. 31 1. ASCOBOLUS. Persoon. Spring-cup. 
Thallus dishlike, or reverse- conical, fleshy. 
Ascoholus furfur aceus. Branny spring-cup. 
Thalli in clusters, rather concave, greenish ; outside 
branlike. 
Peziza stercoraria, Bull. Champ . 256 ; Sowerby Fungi , 18. 
Ascobolus furfnraceus, Persoon Syn. 676. 
On cowdung; late in autumn. 
Fam. XII. 12. LYTOTH ECEiE, Persoon. Fungorum 
pars, Linn. Fungi pistillares, Esenb. 
Thallus fleshy, clubshape, rising from a volva ; hymenium 
expanded, superficial, deliquescing into a slime containing 
the sporse. 
Cap hemispherical, above hairy ; 
involucrum triple 
Bata rhea. 312. 
