108 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
and excipulum composed of rather stout, hyaline, interwoven 
hyphe, which pass into a dark-coloured small-celled parenchy- 
matous cortex ; asci clavate, apex narrowed, not blue with iodine, 
about 160 x 16-173; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 
narrowly elliptic-fusiform, at first multiguttulate, then 7—9-sep- 
tate, very slightly curved, 50 x 60»; paraphyses numerous, very 
slender, tips not thickened. 
On small branches. Pangeronga, Java (Kurz, n. 381). 
A very fine species, which will now stand as DurELUA LATA. 
PATELLARTA TASMANICA, Berk. in Hook. f: Fl. Tasm. ii. p. 276 
(1860). (PI. 4. fig. 18.) 
Gregarious, minute, applanate, at first slightly concave, then 
plane, glabrous; disc bay, often with a tinge of olive-green, 
finally entirely blackish, up to 3 mm. across ; hypothecium dark, 
cortex parenchymatous, cells small, olive-brown ; asci narrowly 
eylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, about 100 x 7-8p; 
spores 8, l-seriate, and inclined to become 2-seriate, hyaline, 
continuous, narrowly cylindrical, ends entirely narrowed, often 
a little bent, 14-16x3°5-4,.; paraphyses numerous, slender, 
septate, not thickened upwards. 
Patinella tasmanica, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 3162. 
On dead wood. Tasmania (Archer). 
PATELLARIA AUREO-coccInEA, Berk. §& M. A. Curt. MS. in 
herb. (Pl. 4. figs. 5-7.) 
Gregarious, sessile, attached by a narrowed base, subglobose 
and closed when young, then expanded, but the golden-yellow 
fringed margin still incurved; disc pallid, externally blackish- 
brown, glabrous, about } mm. across, closed, and often laterally 
compressed when dry; hypothecium and excipulum formed of 
slender interwoven hyphe, these run out into a reddish-brown, 
small-celled, parenchymatous cortex, which changes at the 
margin into a thick-set golden-yellow fringe formed of straight, 
rather closely septate smooth hairs, 80-150 long and 5-8 
thick at the base, and slightly tapering towards the apex; ascl 
cylindric-clavate, apex slightly tapering, apical pore blue with 
lodine, 75-807 3; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, straight, 
hyaline, narrowly fusiform, 1-septate, 23-25 x 3°5 &; paraphyses 
slender, septate, tips not thickened. 
On dead culms of Andropogon scoparius, lying on the ground. 
