Mollisia chionea Mass. & Crossl. Journ. Bot., 1896, p. 154, Pl. 357 
























Growing on peaty ground in an old quarry at Crimple, neat 
Harrogate. (he species is new to Britain, only the variety 
carnosissimus Phil. having previously been met with. 
Llewellyn J. Cocks, Godolphin House, Harrogate, 20th March, 
1898. Naturalist, April, 1898, p. 104. 
figs. 21-24. 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile, but attached by a somewhat - 
narrow base ; thin and fragile, snow-white, almost translucent 
when moist, becoming dead-white when dry; subglobose and 
closed when young, gradually becoming plane, and finally slightly 
convex ; margin minutely fimbriate externally, very delicately 
pruinose, about I mm. across; cortex composed of hexagonal - 
cells, which are slightly elongated in the direction from base to. 
margin, 20-25 X10-I2m, running out into crowded parallel 
hypha of different lengths to form the irregularly fimbriate_ 
margin ; asci cylindric-clavate, apex narrowed, base rather short, | 
40-45 x 5-6, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 
continuous, smooth, narrowly cylindric-oblong, ends obtuse 
straight or very slightly curved, 6-8 x 1°5-2u; paraphyses 
cylindrical, about 2 thick, scarce. 
On dead or dying stems of Carex pendula. Elland, West Yorks. 
Coll. W. Needham, Oct., 1894. 
Bearing some superficial resemblance to Helotium eburneum, 
which sometimes occurs on the same host, but distinguished by 
its larger size, absence of stem, much larger cortical cells, and 
somewhat larger spores. Substance soft and watery when | 
growing. 
Dasyscypha trabinelloides Mass. Helotium trabinelloides Rehm. Ascom. 
No. 853. : 
Gregarious or sometimes crowded sessile, at first globose and 
closed, then expanding, becoming again contracted when dry, 
entirely orange-coloured, 0°5-1°5 mm. diameter; substance thill 
and soft excipulum formed of radiately parallel, septate hyphe 
about 4-5u thick ; externally pubescent, the hairs often arranged 
in groups, septate, cylindrical, obtuse, minutely rough, ovet- 
topping the entire margin and giving it a fringed appearance 
when seen from the outside, 50-75 x 4-53 asci narrowly clavate 
apex slightly narrowed, 60-70 x 7-84; spores 8, irregularly | 

