PSEUDOrEZIZA. 191 



matous brown cortex, cells 6-8 /x diameter, running out at 

 the margin into parallel, clavate, septate, brown liyphae ; 

 asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, distinctly 1-septate at 

 maturity, straight, 10-14 x 2*5 /x ; paraphyscs hyaline, 

 about 2 fx thick, slightly thickened at the tip. 



Peziza (Mollisia) ti/phae, Cke., Grev., i. p. 131. 



Mollisia typhae, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 188; Sacc, S}*11., viii. 

 n. 1429. 



Mollisia epitypha, Relim, Krypt. Fl. Disc, p. 532? 



On dead leaves of Typlia. 



Externally resembling M. atrata, but known by the larger 

 spores, which become distinctly 1-septate at maturity. The 

 septa show up very clearly when the spores arc treated with 

 a solution of iodine. 



Type specimen examined, also Ckc, Fung. Brit., n. 570, 

 and Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 127. 



Pseudopeziza ranunculi. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2979. 



Gregarious on brown spots or scattered, hypophyllous, 

 innate, erumpent, at first closed then expanding and becom- 

 ing discoid, blackish, thin and soft, glabrous, about I- mm. 

 across, hypothecium composed of hyaline, aseptate, densely 

 interwoven h}'phae about 4 /x thick, these pass into a truly 

 parenchymatous excipulum, cortical cells nearly similar in 

 every part, irregularly polygonal, smoky olive, 8-10 /x 

 diameter ; asci clavate, apex slightly narrowed, pedicel short, 

 rather stout, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 oblong-clavate, apex broadest, ends obtuse, for a long time 

 continuous, then 1-septate, the septum placed below the 

 middle of the spore, 15-1 G x 6-7 /x ; paraphyses hyaline, 

 continuous, about 2 fx thick, apex thickened. 



PJilyctidium ranunculi, Wallr., Fl. Crypt., ii. p. 416. 



Mollisia ranunculi, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 200. 



PJiacidium litigiosum, Roberge, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1847, p. 181, 

 t. 8. 



Fabraea litigiosa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3015. 



On fading leaves of Ranunculus repens, and other species. 



Specimens examined in Ckc, Fung. Brit., Exs., ed. ii., 

 n. 452, and Rehm's Ascom., n. 659. 



Saccarclo makes two species, placed in widely separated 



