102 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
substance thin, rather tough and flexible, glabrous; disc pallid 
lilac or pale flesh-colour, externally slightly paler, 4-7 mm. 
diameter; stem almost equal, slender, glabrous, blackish, 
3-4 mm. long; substance composed entirely of thin, hyaline, 
closely-interwoven hyphex; asci narrowly cylindric-clavate, apex 
rounded, 50X 4-5 4; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, con- 
tinuous, smooth, narrowly subcylindrical, often slightly curved, 
5-6 x 15-21; paraphyses very slender, not thickened at the 
tips. 
Phialea leucopsis, Sace. Syll. vii. n. 1091. 
On rotten wood. Cuba (Wright, n. 372). 
Prziza xYLARIICOLA, Berk. in herb. (PI. 5. figs. 28-31.) 
Ascophores in groups of 4-10 springing from a common base ; 
substance tough, formed of interwoven hyphe, pale brown (when 
dry), glabrous, 0°5 mm. diameter. Asci narrowly cylindrical, 
octosporous, 100 x 6; spores elliptical, smooth, hyaline, 2-guttu- 
late, obliquely 1-seriate, 6 x 4-4°5 4»; paraphyses filiform. 
Growing in clusters on the ascigerous portion of some Xylaria. 
Venezuela. 
The present species, which does not appear to have been 
described by Berkeley, will stand as CENANGIUM XYLARIICOLA 
(Berk.). 
Hetotium crocinum, Berk. & M. A. Curt. in’ Journ. Linn. 
Soc., Bot. x. (1869) p. 369; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 909 (1889). 
Gregarious or crowded, at first obconic, the disc gradually 
expanding, but the margin remaining for a long time more or 
Jess incurved, narrowed below into a very short, stout, stem-like 
base, quite glabrous, everywhere saffron-yellow, 1-1°5 mm. across. 
Asci subeylindrical, slightly narrowed at the base, apex not blue 
with iodine, 110 x 10»; spores 8, 1-seriate or sometimes inclined 
to be 2-seriate upwards, cylindric-fusiform, often slightly curved, 
hyaline, becoming distinctly 1-septate, and sometimes slightly 
constricted at the septum, 18-21 x 4-5 wp; parapbyses linear, 
sometimes branched. Hy pothecium and excipulum composed of 
slender, interwoven hyphex ; cortex not differentiated. 
On dead twigs. Cuba ( Wright, n. 374). 
I have received the same species from Mr. A. P. Morgan, 
collected at Preston, Ohio; growing on Quercus. 
