BERKELEY'S TYPES OF FUNGI. 465 
VIBRISSEA MiIcRoscopica, Berk. $ Broome in Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. ser. 1V. vol. xvii. (1876) p. 142 (n. 1618, Berk. & 
Broome); Phillips, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. II. Bot., vol. ii. p. 7, 
tab. 1. figs. 17-24; Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 319 ; Sace. Syll. viii. 
n. 175; Massee, Brit. Fungus- Flora, vol. iv. p. 489. 
Very minute, shortly stipitate, at first pyriform, then expand- 
ing and becoming coneave or almost plane, grey, about mm. 
high and broad; excipulum pseudoparenchymatous, the cells 
running out into parallel, septate, olive-coloured hyphe at the 
surface and margin; asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed, blue 
with iodine, pedicel long and slender, 8-spored, about 80 x 5-6 u ; 
spores arranged in a parallel fascicle, hyaline, continuous, often 
slightly curved, needle-shaped, 50-60 x2 a; paraphyses very 
slender, numerous, tips not thickened. 
Ou damp fir-wood. Rannoch, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 
Scarcely visible without a lens. Stem very short, black ; head 
grey, leaving a cup-shaped depression when completely washed 
off; sporidia ejected, filiform. (Berk. 4 Broome.) 
VIBEISSEA GuERNISACI, Crouan, in Ann. Sc. Nat. (Bot.), 
sér. IV. vol. vii. p. 176, tab. 4. figs. 24-26 (1857). 
To this species the following must be referred assynonyms:— 
Peziza leptospora, Berk. & Broome, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. ILI. vol. xviii. (Aug. 1866), p. 126, t. 4. fig. 30 (n. 1166 of 
Berk. & Broome). 
Vibrissea leptospora, Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 320. 
Gorgoniceps leptospora, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 2086. 
Vibrissea Guernisaci, Crouan, var. leptospora, Massee, Brit. 
Fungus-Flora, vol. iv. p. 488. 
Patellaria Fergussoni, Berk. & Broome, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ser. IV. vol. xv. (Jan. 1875), p. 39, t. 2. fig. 6 (n. 1490 of 
Berk. & Broome). 
Vibrissea Fergussoni, Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 318 ; Sace. Syll. 
viii. n. 173. 
In my Fungus-Flora, vol. iv. p. 488, Peziza leptospora, Berk. 
& Broome, and Vibrissea Fergussoni, Berk. & Broome, were 
shown to be identical, and were included under Vibrissea Guer- 
nisaci, Crouan, as var. leptospora. The varietal distinction was 
founded on differences in the paraphyses, but examination of 
authentic material of V. Guernisaci shows that this supposed 
difference is not permanent. 
