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clavate, apex narrowed, not blue with iodine; spores 8, irre- 
gularly 2-seriate, narrowly fusiform, straight or very slightly 
curved, smooth, hyaline, for a long time continuous, finally 
1-septate, 6-8 X15 4; paraphyses slender, very slightly clavate 
hyaline. 
Mollisia stramineum, Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 196; Massce, 
Brit. Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 215. 
Pseudohelotium stramineum, Sace. Syll. n. 1247. 
Perfectly glabrous, but having a pulverulent appearance, 
especially when dry. I followed Phillips in placing this species 
in the genus Mollisia in Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 215, but I now 
consider it to be a true Helotium. 
Peziza Ancuert, Berk. in Hook.f. Fl. Tasm. ii. p. 274 (1860). 
(Pl. 5. fig. 21.) 
Scattered or gregarious, 3~8 mm. across, slightly concave, then 
often plano-convex and umbilicate, margin often undulate, 
glabrous, sessile but somewhat narrowed to a broadish point of 
attachment; disc deep crimson, outside whitish with just a tinge 
of rose-colour, margin somewhat raised when dry ; asci narrowly 
cylindrical, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, 160 x 10, 8- 
Spored; spores 1-seriate, perfectly globose, smooth, hyaline, 8 
diam. ; paraphyses filiform, apex curved. Hypothecium formed 
of small-celled parenchymatous tissue, the cells gradually be- 
coming larger towards the exterior. 
Barlea? Archeri, Sacc. Syll. x. n. 4478. 
On dead leaves, twigs, &c., lying on the ground, also on the 
naked ground. Tasmania. Specimens since received at Kew 
from Tasmania, communicated by Rodway, n. 686, are identical 
with Berkeley’s type. 
Saccardo has placed the present species in the genus Barlea 
with a query, but this position is quite correct ; the tomentose 
exterior mentioned by Berkeley only refers to a white tomentum 
Sometimes present at the point of attachment; the exterior ot 
the ascophore is absolutely glabrous. 
Prziza ceratina, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. p. 275 (1860). 
Phialea ceratina, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 1102. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Tasmania (Archer). 
This species proves to be identical with Helotium virgultorum, 
Karsten. 
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