508 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
PxzizA PATERXFORMIS, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. vol. ii- 
p. 276 (1860). (Pl. XVII. fig. 23.) 
Seattered, sessile, but attached by a narrowed stem-like base, 
globose at first, soon becoming plane, and finally slightly convex, 
the extreme margin often remaining upraised, rather fleshy, gla- 
brous, often more or less irregular in outline, 2-4 mm. across, 
yellowish-brown (when dry}; cortex parenchymatous, cells small ; 
asci cylindrical, apex rounded and coloured blue with iodine, wall 
rather thick, 160 x 14 p; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 
smooth, for a long time continuous, finally l-septate, straight 
or very slightly curved, eylindrie-oblong, or the ends sometimes 
more or less pointed and inclined to be cylindric-fusiform, 27-30 
x7-8 a; paraphyses numerous, slender, slightly thickened at 
the tips. 
Helotium patereforme, Cooke, Austr. Fung. p. 264; Sacc. Syll. 
viii. n. 1028. 
Helotium agleosporiwn, Berk. & Curt. N. Amer. Fung. n. 752, 
in Grevillea, vol. iv. (1875) p. 1; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 1018. 
On wood among mosses and hepaties Tasmania (Archer). 
On dead wood among moss, Lower Carolina (Ravenel, n. 2977). 
Approaching such species as Helotium mellewm and H. sub- 
lateritium, but differing in the larger, l-septate, and 1-seriate 
spores. 
Prziza LEPIDA, Berk. $£ Curt. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. iv. 
(1858) p. 127; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 211, fig. 357. (Pl. XVI. 
fig. 11.) 
Seattered, stipitate, substance thin, funnel-shaped, margin at 
first incurved, then erect; dise red, externally pale and rather 
scurfy, 5-8 mm. across ; stem slender, 3-4 mm. long ; substance 
entirely parenchymatous, cortical cells large, polygonal, running 
out in small groups to form the granular or scurfy exterior; 
asci cylindrical, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, 8-spored ; 
spores obliquely 1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, 
14-15 x7 p; paraphyses slender, scarcely thickened at the tip. 
Sarcoscypha lepida, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 620. 
On burnt earth. Japan (U.S. North Pac. Exped.; Wright, 
n. 149). 
Peziza Pusio, Berk. $ Curt. in Grevillea, vol. iii. (1879) p. 153. 
Growing singly or 2-3 ascophores springing from a common 
