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x mm. across; when young subglobose and closed, then becoming 
hemispherical ; disc pallid or pale grey, externally blackish-brown, 
and furnished, especially at the margin, with rigid, dark brown 
hyphe 80-50 x 5-6 «3; excipulum formed of slender, interwoven 
hyphe; asci clavate, apex somewhat narrowed, not blue with 
iodine, base stout, short, sometimes oblique, 60-65 x 8-9; 
spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous at first, be- 
coming distinctly 3-septate at maturity, narrowly fusiform, ends 
acute, often slightly curved, 24-26 x 2°5-3y; paraphyses 
slender, very slightly thickened upwards. 
Pirottea Vectis, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 1605; Phillips, Brit. Disc. 
p. 284, pl. 8. f. 52. 
Echinella Vectis, Massee, Brit. Fung.-Flora, iv. p. 304. 
On dead stem of Centaurea nigra. Ryde, I. of Wight (Bloxam, 
n. 344). 
The present species belongs to the genus Echinelia, established 
in Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 304. This genus is clearly separated 
from Pirottea by the septate spores, and from £rined/a in not 
having lanceolate paraphyses. 
For some reason Phillips—in Brit. Discom. p. 24—placed 
this species in Saccardo’s genus Pirottea, which is characterized 
by having continuous spores. Phillips translates Saccardo’s 
generic character, and says “ sporidia continuous ”’; then, in the 
specific diagnosis of his only species, says “ sporidia 1~3-septate.”” 
In the Sylloge, viii. n. 16U5, Saccardo has retained the present 
Species in his genus Pirotte@a, and copies the description given 
by Phillips ; but at the same time attempts to reconcile the 
anomaly of placing a species having septate spores in a genus 
characterized by continuous spores, as follows, “ sporidiis (spurie), 
1-3-septatis.” 
Peziza nitipuLa, Berk. § Broome, in Ann. § Mag. Nat. 
Hist. Ser. IL. vii. (1861) p. 182. (Pl. 4. figs. 28, 29.) 
Scattered, stipitate, subglobose,, and closed; then becoming 
cup-shaped, often irregular and nearly plane, pale tan, rather 
firm, externally very delicately powdered with glistening meal, 
2-1 mm. broad and high ; stem short, equal, coloured like the 
ascophore ; hypothecium and excipulum minutely parenchy- 
matous ; cortical cells small, irregularly hexagonal, elongated in 
the direction from stem to margin, almost hyaline; asct smal], 
narrowly cylindric-clavate ; apex slightly narrowed and not blue 
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