114 MR. G. MASSEE-——REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
SPHINCTRINA TIGILLARIS, Berk. in Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. 
Ser. III. xv. (1865) p. 450. (Pl. 5. figs. 17, 18.) 
Entirely black, stem very slender, head broadly elliptical, 
whole fungus up to 1 mm high; asci narrowly cylindrical, soon 
deliquescing ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, narrowly 
elliptical, with one thick, median septum, 5-6 x 2 p. 
On an old Polyporus growing on a beam in King’s Cliffe 
Church (Berkeley). On wood, Batheaston (Broome). 
The two following species were founded by Schweinitz, and 
not by Berkeley, but as there is ample material of each in the 
Kew Hebarium collected by Schweinitz, and furthermore as 
the species are not at all well understood, it has been considered 
advisable to append fuller diagnoses. 
Peziza cRUENTA, Schweinitz, Syn. Fung. Am. Bor. un. 943 
(1834) ; Grevillea, xxii. (1894) p. 99. (Pl. 5. figs. 25-27.) 
Gregarious, sometimes confluent, sessile, fixed bya central point, 
at first closed, then becoming widely expanded, margin ofteu 
wavy or fimbriate, slightly raised, up to 1 mm. across ; substance 
thin, somewhat gelatinous when moist, translucent and rigid 
when dry; dise slightly concave, crimson or orange-red, some- 
times pale orange (when dry), externally paler, the margin and 
for a short distance below furnished with small, projecting 
clusters of obtuse hyphe 25-35 x 5-6», these tufts are usually 
agglutinated together by amorphous, honey-coloured lumps ; 
hypothecium and excipulum minutely parenchymatous, cells of 
cortex polygonal, 7-9 diameter; asci clavate, apex rounded, 
not blue with iodine; pedicel slender, usually crooked, about 
50x64; spores 8, irregularly I-seriate or sometimes 2-seriate 
above, hyaline, continuous, eylindric-oblong, ends obtuse, 5-7 X 
15-2»; paraphyses numerous, hyaline, slender, tips capitate, 
piriform, or sometimes only very slightly thickened. 
Pezizella cruenta, Sacec. Syll. viii. n. 1183. 
Peziza (Mollisia) fibriseda, Berk. & M. A. Curt. in Grevillea, 
ii. (1875) p. 157. 
Pseudohelotium fibrisedum, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 1243. 
Peziza (Mollisia) saccharifera, Berk. in Grevillea, iii. (1875) 
p. 157. 
Pseudohelotium sacchariferum, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 1242. 
Peziza rufula, Schweinitz, Syn. Fung. Amer. Bor. n. 495 
(1834). 
