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of slender hyphe, which become arranged in a parallel series and 
run from base to margin in the cortex ; stem about equal iu length 
to diameter of ascophore, slender, glabrous, blackish ; asci cylin- 
drical, apex rounded and blue with iodine ; spores 8, irregularly 
2-seriate, narrowly cylindrical, ends obtuse, hyaline, smooth, 
continuous, straight, 6x2; paraphyses slender, very slightly 
thickened upwards. 
On dead leaves, moss capsules, &e. Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 104). 
Allied to such species as Helotium virgultorum and H. Calyculus, 
but differing in the smaller spores and black stem. 
HELOTIUM FASCICULARE, Berk. $ Broome, in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 107. (Pl. XVII. figs. 7, 8.) 
Fasciculate, numerous stems springing from a common base, 
a few peripheral specimens sometimes scattered; soft and sub- 
gelatinous when moist, rigid and horny when dry, entirely pallia, 
becoming pale amber during drying, glabrous; ascophore plane, 
then slightly convex, margin acute, 2-3 mm. across; stem almost 
equal or thickened upwards, rather stout, 2-3 mm. long; entire 
substance composed of very slender, densely interwoven hyphe, 
the outer walls of which deliquesce and form a gelatinous hyaline 
mass, which becomes deep blue with iodine; asci cylindrical, 
apex obtuse, base narrowed, not at all coloured with iodine ; 
spores 8, 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, continuous, broadly elliptical, 
ends obtuse, 8-9 x 6-7 p; paraphyses filitorm, apex not incras- 
sated, about 1 p thick. 
Pitya fascicularis, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 851. 
On bark. Peradeniya, Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 1133). 
The present species belongs to the Bulgariex, and in a modern 
arrangement will stand as Ombrophila fascicularis. Remarkable 
for the hypothecium and excipulum becoming coloured deep blue 
on the application of a solution of iodine, whereas under the 
same treatment the asci remain uncoloured. 
HELOTIUM RUFO-CORNEUM, Berk. § Broome, Fungi of Ceylon, 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1579) p. 108; Sace. Syll. 
viii. n. 961. 
This species is in every respect identical with Peziza crocata, 
Mont. ; as the published description of the last-named species is 
imperfect, a description is given, drawn up from a portion of the 
type gathering made by Leprieur in Guiana, which was sent to 
Berkeley by Montagne. 
LINN. JUUBN, —BOTANY, VOL. XXXI. 2 M 
