506 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
nently more or less upraised; dise crimson-lake or scarlet, exter- 
nally paler and minutely warted or granulated, rather fleshy, 
1-1'5 em. diameter; hypothecium and excipulum consisting of 
densely interwoven hyphw, becoming imperfectly parenchy- 
matous at the cortex ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 150-160 u; 
spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth for some time, finally covered 
with minute acute warts, 12-14; paraphyses slender, slightly 
thickened upwards, septate. 
Barlea exasperata, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 420. 
On burnt ground. Alabama (Peters). 
Allied to P. Wrightii, Berk. & Curt. For distinctions be- 
tween the two, see note under the last-named species. 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew examined. 
Peziza GRATA, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. vol. ii. p. 275 (1860). 
(Pl. XVII. fig. 15.) 
Scattered or gregarious, stipitate, very soon plane, sometimes 
flexuous, almost translucent when moist, thin, pale orange, ela- 
brous, about 1-2 mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum 
formed of slender hyphe which run parallel from base to 
margin in the cortex; stem 1-2 mm. long, slender, paler than the 
ascophore, glabrous, usually buried in the woody matrix ; asci 
narrowly cylindrical, apex obtuse and blue with iodine ; spores 8, 
obliquely 1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, elliptic-fusoid, ends 
rather pointed, straight, usually furnished with a small oil- 
globule near each end, 10X4°5-5 p; paraphyses slender, tips 
not thickened. 
Helotiwm gratum, Cooke, Austral. Fungi, p. 264; Sace. Syll. 
viii. n. 918. 
On dead wood. Tasmania (Archer). 
In the type specimens the plants are growing on old weathered 
wood, and nestle in the chinks between the fibres, from which 
they spring; they are in some instances compressed, owing to 
not being raised out of the chink. 
Pzziza ALBO-CINCTA, Berk. $ Curt. N. Amer. Fung. n. 720, in 
Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) p. 154. 
Neottiella albocincta, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 776. 
This species is certainly synonymous with Peziza Polytrichi, 
Schum. Enum. Plant. Sell. Sept. et Or. p. 423 (1803) (not of 
Cooke, Mycogr. p. 30, fig. 50). 
