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subfistulose, for the most part cylindrical (very rarely attenuated or compressed towards 
the base), straight or curved, tough, smoky-black, paler below the pileus. Pileus 
1-2" broad, the younger ones watery-pallid, then very dilutely ezerulescent.— Weinm. 
On decayed moist wood of Alnus incanus.  May.— Wein. 
This differs from V. truncorum in the colour of the hymenium and in being sub- 
laeunose; it is probably only a form of that species. 
5. VIBRISSEA FLAVIPES, Rabh. Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 286. 
Exsiceati: Klotz. Herb. Myco. cent. xvii. no. 27 (1627). 
Gregarious and subezspitose or scattered, simple, rooting in the matrix; stem 1-27 
long, erect or curved, terete, yellow, often pulveraceous ; receptacle from greenish becoming 
glauco-cinerascent, floccose with the erumpent sporidia. 
On Vitis vinifera.— Rabh. 
Not having seen specimens of this species, I simply reproduce the description of 
Dr. Rabenhorst. 
6. VIBRISSEA LUTEA, Peck, xxv. Report N.Y. Mus. р. 97, t. i. f. 19-23. 
Head subglobose ; hymenium smooth, yellow, margin slightly lobed, deflexed, free ; 
stem equal, solid, yellow, but more highly coloured than the hymenium; asci clavate 
or cylindrical; sporidia long, filiform. 6-12” high; head 2-3" in diameter. 
On prostrate mossy trunks of trees, and amongst fallen leaves in woods. North Elba, 
U.S. August. 
I have not seen a specimen of this species, which appears to differ from the preceding 
in the colour of the hymenium. 
7. ViBRIssEA Fere@ussont (Berk. & Broome). Patellaria Fergussoni, Berk. & Broome ; 
Ann. Nat. Hist. 1875, vol. xv. р. 39, no. 1490, t. п. fig. 6 
Stipes short, thickened upwards; cups plane, externally dark brown, granulose; 
hymenium plane or pulvinate, yellow ; asci elongated ; sporidia filiform; summits of the 
paraphyses globose. : 
Оп Prunus Padus, New Pitsligo, Rev. J. Fergusson.— Berk. & Broome. 
The clear description, together with the excellent figures given by Messrs. Berkeley & 
Broome in the Ann. Nat. Hist., leave no doubt on my mind that this is a good species of 
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8. VIBRISSEA MICROSCOPICA, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1876, vol. xvii. p. 142. 
i no. 1618 ; Grevillea, v. p. 59. 
* Very minute, plane or cup-shaped; hymenium and receptacle grey; stipes short, 
slender, black; asci clavate; sporidia eight, filiform ; paraphyses filiform, numerous. 
On damp fir wood, Rannoch.—Dr. Buchanan White. 
Scarcely visible without a lens. Stem very short, black ; head grey, leaving a cup-shapea 
depression when completely washed off; sporidia ejected, filiform.—Berk. & Broome. 
The receptacle :2 millim. across, the whole plant 2 millim. high, пуни "05-06 
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