BERKELEY S TYPES OF FUNGI. 479 
of H. melleum has been retained by Saccardo (Syll. viii. n. 1002) 
for the Ceylon species ; and the British species, notwithstanding 
priority of publication, has been changed to Helotium Fergussoni, 
Sace. Syll. viii. n. 948. This mistake has been corrected in my 
* Fungus-Flora,’ vol. iv. p. 243. 
HELOTIUM SUBLATERITIUM, Berk. & Broome, Not. Brit. Fung. 
n. 1488, in Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. IV. vol. xv. (1875) p. 38; 
Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 161; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 933; Massee, 
Fungus- Flora, vol. iv. p. 253. (Pl. XVII. figs. 17, 18.) 
Scattered or gregarious ; stipitate, soon becoming quite plane, 
or the extreme margin upturned, glabrous, pale brick-red, under 
surface minutely radially wrinkled, 1-1-5 mm. across; stem short, 
widening upwards into the base of the ascophore, coloured, at 
first covered with delicate white down, becoming glabrous; hypo- 
thecium and excipulum formed of hyaline, thin, intricately inter- 
woven hyphe that run out into a small-celled parenchymatous 
cortex ; asci elongated, narrowly clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 
pedicel long, slender; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate above, 1- 
seriate below, smooth, hyaline, continuous, elliptic-fusiform, 
straight or very slightly bent, sometimes 2-guttulate, 24-26 x 
5-6 p; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips scarcely thickened. 
On dead stems of herbaceous plants. Glamis, N.B. (Rev. J. 
Stevenson). 
Distinguished by the discoid, pale red hymenium, the minutely 
wrinkled under surface of the ascophore, and the large spores. 
PEzizA (Š HELVELLOIDEZ) MICROSPORA, Berk. 4 Curt. in 
Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) p. 150; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 158, fig. 271. 
Gregarious or crowded, and often irregular in form from pres- 
sure, narrowed to a point of attachment, but not stipitate, fleshy, 
fragile; disc orange-yellow, externally pallid and minutely pul- 
verulent or pruinose, due to the outgrowth, in minute groups, of 
some of the cortical cells, up to 1 em. across ; hypothecium, ex- 
cipulum, and cortex formed of thick irregularly swollen hyphe, 
densely interwoven, hyaline ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, not 
becoming blue with iodine, 100 x 5-6 u ; spores 8, obliquely 1- 
seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, 
7-8 x4; paraphyses rather slender, tips not much thickened. 
Humaria microspora, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 510. 
On damp rotten wood near the ground. Lower Carolina 
(Ravenel, nn. 2970 & 1031). 
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