94 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
with iodine, base short, stout, about 50 x 5-6; spores 8 
irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, sinooth, continuous (permanently ?) 
straight or curved, narrowly fusiform ; ends acute, 7-11 x 25h 
paraphyses hyaline, slender, very slightly thickened at the tip. 
Hymenoscypha nitidula, Phillips, Brit. Dise. p. 142. 
Phialea nitidula, Sacc. Syll. vii. n. 1115. 
Helotium nitidulum, Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv. p. 263. 
On dead leaves of Aira cespitosa. England. 
There are indications of the spores being 1-septate at maturity, 
but I am not certain on this point. Spores often curved or 
rather irregularly crooked. 
Peziza FURFURIPES, Berk. §& M. A. Curt. in herb. (PI. 4. 
figs. 30, 31.) 
Usually in small, crowded clusters, rarely scattered, stipitate, 
closed and piriform at first, then expanding until almost plane, 
but the extreme margin persistently raised, up to 1 mm. across 
and 15 mm. high, entirely brown (when dry), glabrous, passing 
gradually into the stem, which is narrowed downwards and 
covered with very minute fascicles of hyphe, which give it a 
scurfy appearance ; cortex formed of slender, septate, parallel 
hypbe which run from base to margin; asci cylindrical, apex 
rounded, not blue with iodine; pedicel long, slender, about 110 
x 8; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, globose or nearly 80, 
5-6 » diameter, or 5-6 xX 4m; paraphyses slender, numerous, 
hyaline, not at all or very slightly thickened upwards. 
Phialea furfuripes, Phillips, in Grevillea, xix. (1891) p. 733 
Sace. Syll. x. n. 4500. 
On rotten wood. Venezuela. 
The spores appear to be perfectly globose when quite 
mature. 
Prziza Srraminum, Berk. & Broome, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ser. 11. vii. (1851) p. 182. 
Crowded or scattered, sessile but attached by a central point, 
hemispherical, then expanding, the margin remaining slightly 
incurved, up to 4 mm. across, rather fleshy; disc pale yellow or 
with a tinge of pink, externally glabrous but covered with crystals 
of oxalate of lime; excipulum parenchymatous, cells minute 3 
cortex consisting of parallel rows of hyphe, which pass into 
short, obtuse, parallel rows of hairs at the margin ; asci narrowly 
