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very narrow, running out into parallel kyphae at the margin, 

 the free portion of which measures about 25-30 x 3-4 tt; 

 asci clavate, apex rounded, sometimes curved, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate, continuous, hyaline, straight 

 or very slightly bent, 8-10 x 2*5-3 /x ; paraplryses hyaline, 

 cylindrical, slender. 



Pezizella mali, Eehm, 26 Ber. Naturh. Ver. Augsb., 

 p. 112. 



Pseudohelotiam mali, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 125G. 



On the inner surface of apple-tree bark ; also, according to 

 Phillips, on dead holly bark. 



Specimen in Eehm, Ascom., n. 460, examined. 



Mollisia dentata. Gillet, Champ. France, Disc, 

 p. 124. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, subglobose and closed at 

 first, then becoming hemispherical, the slightly irregular 

 margin remaining more or less erect, very thin, soft and 

 watery, whitish, or with a yellow tinge, about | mm. diameter; 

 hypothecium and excipulum minutely parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells irregularly polygonal, running out in irregular 

 groups to form the toothed border, and passing into parallel, 

 obtuse hyphae at the margin 25-40 X 4-5 /x, sometimes 

 rough "with minute particles of lime; asci clavate, pedicel 

 long, slender, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 

 1-seriate, or 2-seriate at the apex, hyaline, continuous, 

 smooth, narrowly clavate, 8-10 X 3 /x ; paraphyses nume- 

 rous, very slender, sometimes branched, tips not thickened. 



Pezizia dentata, Pers., Icon, et .Descr. Fung., p. 5, t. 1, 

 figs. 6, 7. 



Niptera dentata, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 335. 



Cyathkula dentata, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1283. 



Pezizella dentata, Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 659. 



On rotten wood. 



Specimen in Fucker's Fung, Ehen., n. 2370 examined. 



The species described by Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 334, as 

 Calloria rubella, Pers., is certainly not the fungus intended 

 by Persoon. The specimen accepted by Phillips is from 

 " Herb. Berkeley," ;and the only specimen in Berkeley's 

 herbarium under the name of Peziza dentata, Pers., is an im- 

 perfectly developed Orbilia, probably O. leucostigma. 



