512 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
thecium, excipulum, and cortex composed entirely of interwoven 
hyphæ, which run out to form the external down; asci elon- 
gated and narrow, cylindrical; apex rounded, becoming deep 
blue with iodine, about 250 x 9; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, 
continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 13-14 x 
7-8 p; paraphyses septate, very slightly thickened and coloured 
at the tips. 
Neottiella Spraguei, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 775. 
On rotten wood. Maine, U.S.A. (Sprague, n. 5325). Other 
U. States localities are given by Cooke in * Mycographia,’ but 
Sprague's specimens are the only ones iu the Kew herbarium. 
The present species has all the characters of the genus Rhizina, 
and will in future stand as Rhizina Spraguet. 
PzzizA VINOSA-BRUNNEA, Berk. $ Broome, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. II. Bot. vol. i. (1880) p. 404, pl. 45. figs. 11-18. 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile but narrowed to a short stem- 
like base, subglobose and closed at first, then expanding, margin 
wavy, often irregular from mutual pressure, rather fleshy, every 
part of a clear reddish or purple-brown; externally sparsely 
clothed with long, slender, subcylindrical, septate, almost colour- 
less hairs, which are sometimes in small fascicles, 150-200 x 5-6 u, 
lower down the ascophore the hairs pass into straggling hyphe 
which fix the fungus to the substratum ; cortex parenchymatous ; 
ascophore 4-10 mm. across; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, not . 
blue with iodine, 250x14-15 p; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, 
continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, ends narrowed, 24-25 x 
11-12 p ; paraphyses slender, septate, apex very slightly thick- 
ened, sometimes branched. 
Lachnea vinosa-brunnea, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 687. 
On burnt ground. Brisbane (Bailey, n. 19). 
PEZ1ZA GENEOSPORA, Berk. in Hook. Journ. Bot. vol. iii. (1851) 
p. 208; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 72, fig. 180. (Pl. XVII. fig. 30.) 
Sessile but narrowed below to a central point of attachment, 
rather fleshy ; disc slightly concave, clear crimson ; externally 
paler and bristling withthick-walled, ventricose, pointed, septate, 
dark brown hairs, which are most abundant near the margin, 
where they measure 200-350 x 14-20 p, base of hairs narrowed 
and sometimes branched, rarely more or less bulbous ; ascophores 
1'8 cm. across ; cortex parenchymatous, cells large; asci cylin- 
