472 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
averaging 35 x 8-9 p; paraphyses numerous, slender, cylindrical, 
hyaline throughout, rather closely septate. 
Amongst pine-leaves. Darjeeling (Dr. Hooker). 
Very closely allied to Rhizina inflata, Quélet; differing in 
the absence of rhizoids on the under surface of the ascophore, 
and the slender, cylindrical, hyaline paraphyses. 
PHILLIPSIA SUBPURPUREA, Berk. $ Broome, in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ser. II. Bot. vol. ii. (1882) p. 69; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 607. 
(Pl. XVI. fig. 9.) 
Ascophore sessile, attached by a central point, thick and 
fleshy, margin irregularly lobed, edge not upturned; disc 
nodulose or wavy, reddish-purple, becoming tinged brown when 
dry; under surface variously wrinkled and contracted, pallid, 
margin more or less tinged with red, glabrous, 3-6 cm. broad; 
hypothecium of very densely interwoven hypha, as is also the 
cortex, excipulum lax, all the hyphe hyaline and about 5-6 p 
thick; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, and not becoming blue 
with iodine, wall thick, 8-spored, about 300 x16 g; spores 
l-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 
often slightly inequilateral, guttulate, 27-30 x 12-14 u; para- 
physes cylindrical, about 3 p thick. 
On rotten wood close to the ground. Brisbane (Bailey, 
n. 167). 
The largest species of the genus Phillipsia. Thick and fleshy 
when fresh, much contracted when dry ; flesh white. 
The genus Phillipsia, Berk. in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. 
xviii. (1881) p. 388, from examination of type specimens, should be 
emended as follows :—Ascophore sessile, fleshy, discoid, mar- 
ginate, expanded from the first, glabrous; composed entirely of 
slender interwoven hyphx, which are densely compacted in the 
hypothecium and cortex, very loosely interwoven in the median 
portion or excipulum ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse; spores 8, 
1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, large, elliptical or elliptic-oblong ; 
paraphyses present. 
Growing on rotten wood or on the ground. 
When dry the hymenium becomes cracked as in the genus 
Corticium, and often separates spontaneously from the cortical 
portion of the ascophore, owing to the very scanty network 
forming the excipulum. 
The foilowing species also show the above points of structure, 
