476 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
HELOTIUM ALUTACEUM, Berk. & Broome, Fungi of Ceylon, 
n. 956, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 107 ; Sace. 
Syll. viii. n. 1020. (Pl. XVII. fig. 24.) 
Gregarious or often cespitose and overlapping; sessile, closed 
at first, then expanding, the margin remaining erect, finally 
becoming plane and usually more or less wavy, the extreme 
margin usually remaining upturned; attached by a narrowed base, 
which, along with the margin, is at first covered with a delicate 
white tomentum, at length glabrous, rather fleshy, yellowish-ochre 
(when dry) 1:5-2 mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum 
formed of slender, densely interwoven hyphe; asci cylindrical, 
apex rounded, not coloured blue with iodine ; spores 8, obliquely 
l-seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, wall rather thick, elliptic- 
oblong, ends obtuse, 12-14 X 7 u; paraphyses numerous, slender, 
very slightly thickened at the tips. 
On weathered wood. Peradeniya, Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 65). 
HELOTIOM MISERUM, Berk. $ Curt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) 
vol. x. p. 869 (1869) ; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 877. (PI. XVII. figs. 9-11.) 
Gregarious or scattered; clavate, then urceolate, narrowed 
below into a short stem-like base, glabrous, whitish, pallid when 
dry, rather firm, 1:5-2 mm. high ; eortex composed of very long 
narrow cells arranged in a parallel series running from base to 
margin; asci clavate, apex narrowed, thick-walled, no trace of 
blue, but the entire wall of the ascus becoming brown with 
iodine ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, smooth, hyaline, 4-guttu- 
late, finally becoming 3-septate, narrowly clavate, apex thickest, 
12-145; paraphyses filiform. 
On bark amongst moss. Cuba (Wright, n. 456). 
On account of the 3-septate spores, the present species will 
stand as Belonidium miserum. Berkeley described the spores as 
* endochromate demum quadripartito,” but on examining the 
type specimen I find many of the spores distinctly 3-septate. 
HELOTIUM LENTUM, Berk. $ Broome, Fung. Ceylon, n. 961, 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 108; Sace. Syll. 
viii. n. 930. (Pl. XVII. fig. 16.) 
Scattered; stipitate, at first with the margin incurved, soon 
becoming quite plane, glabrous, externally more or less covered 
with radiating wrinkles originating from the apex of the stem, 
reddish-brown when dry, becoming paler and yellowish when 
moistened, 1:5-2 mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum formed 
