478 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
Peziza crocata, Mont. Syll. Crypt. n. 625, p. 186 (1856) ; 
Mont. Cent. ii. n. 19. (Pl. XVII. fig. 14.) 
Gregarious or scattered ; stipitate, at first globose and closed, 
finally almost or quite plane, slightly fleshy, glabrous, 1-3 mm. 
diameter, externally often radially rugulose, varying in colour 
from orange yellow to reddish ; hypothecium and excipulum 
formed of slender interwoven hyphæ, which become arranged in 
a parallel series running from base to margin in the cortex ; stem 
slender, 2-4 mm. long, equal or expanding at the apex, usually 
paler than the ascophore and at first covered near the base with 
very delicate evanescent down, frequently slightly curved ; asci 
clavate, thick-walled, apex slightly narrowed, thick, tinged blue 
with iodine; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, narrowly cylindric- 
fusiform, ends pointed, continuous, hyaline, smooth, straight, 
25-30 X 3-6 u; paraphyses numerous, very slender, slightly 
thickened at the tips. 
Phialea crocata, ace. Syll. viii. n. 1082. 
Helotium rufo-corneum, Berk. & Broome, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
(Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 108 ; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 961. 
On petioles of fallen leaves, Guiana (Leprieur); on dead wood, 
Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 282). 
HELOTIUM MELLEUM, Berk. & Broome, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ser. IV. vol. xv. (1875) p. 38; Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 160; 
Massee, Fungus- Flora, vol. iv. p. 242. (PI. XVII. fig. 19.) 
Scattered or gregarious ; stipitate, closed at first, soon becoming 
quite plane, but with the extreme margin usually slightly up- 
turned, often wavy, pale honey-colour everywhere, 1-1:5 mm. 
across ; hypothecium and excipulum parenchymatous ; cortical 
cells polygonal or subquadrate, almost uniform in size throughout, 
7-10 » diameter; stem short, stout, glabrous; asci clavate, apex 
narrowed, pedicel long, slender; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, 
smooth, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, ends rather acute, very slightly 
bent or with a suggestion of becoming sigmoid, often multi- 
guttulate, 21-32 x 5-6 p; paraphyses hyaline, about 1°5 p thick, 
scarcely or often not at all thickened at the tips. 
Helotium Fergussoni, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 948. 
On rotten wood. New Pitsligo, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). 
The present species was published in January 1875, and later 
in the same year Berkeley and Broome published a second quite 
distinct species from Ceylon as Helotium melleum. The name 
