466 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
CorRDIERITES CORALLOIDES, Berk. $ Curt.in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
(Bot.) vol. x. p. 370 (1869) ; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 3322. (Pl. XVIII. 
fig. 3.) 
Erumpent ; common stem breaking up at once into a variable 
number of rather slender, short (3-7 mm.), more orless crowded, 
minutely rough, dingy brown, simple or forked branchlets, each 
one usually bearing an aseophore at its apex ; ascophore 2-3 mm. 
across, sometimes broader; margin at first incurved, then quite 
plane, brown; asci narrowly cylindrical ; spores 8, obliquely 1- 
seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, cylindric-ovate, ends obtuse, 
5-6 x 2°5 u; paraphyses slender. 
Parasitic on the stroma of decayed and old specimens of some 
species of Hypoxylon. Cuba (Wright, nn. 326, 504, 505). 
A peculiar species, springing from the stroma of some Hypo- 
aylon in all the specimens seen, and forming compact, coral-like 
tufts. May possibly prove to be a lichen. 
CORDIERITES Sprucet, Berk. Dec. Fung. n. 619, in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. vol. viii. (1856) p. 280, t. 10. fig. 5; Sace. Syll. viii. 
n. 3328. (Pl. XVIII. figs. 4, 5.) 
Entire fungus dingy brownish-purple; stem up to 1 cm. high, 
simple or more frequently with 1-4 short branches, each bearing 
an ascophore at its apex; ascophores 2-5 mm. across, slightly 
oblique, funnel-shaped ; externally, as well as the stem, minutely 
scabrid; excipulum formed of slender, thick-walled, septate, 
intertwined hyphe which pass into a parenchymatous cortex, - 
the cells running out in small groups to form the rough exterior ; 
asci narrowly cylindrical, 50-60 x 5 p ; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, 
continuous, smooth, elliptical, 5-6 x3; paraphyses cylindrical, 
septate, apex slightly narrowed, outline of wall slightly wavy 
towards the tips. 
On rotten wood. Amazon Valley, Brazil (Spruce, n. 85). 
Cartilaginous when dry. The hyphx, asci, and paraphyses 
are all tinged with the purple colour of the fungus, which is 
soluble in a weak alkaline solution. 
BULGARIA DECOLORANS, Berk. 4 Curt. in Grevillea, vol. iv. 
(1875) p. 6. (PL XVIII. figs. 23, 24.) 
Gregarious; soft and tough when moist, rigid when dry; 
margin incurved and closed when young, then expanding until 
cup-shaped or pyriform, gradually narrowed below into a short, 
stout, stem-like base, ,labrous externally and the stem more or 
