372 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



some time quite smooth, finally minutely warted, 24-28 X 

 11-13 n ; paraphyses septate, slender below, becoming 

 slightly clavate at the tip, which contains orange granules. 



Peziza polytrichia Schum., Enum. Plant. Saellandiae, Sept. 

 et Or., p. 423 (1803); (not of Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 87). 



Peziza rutilans, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 89. 



Peziza (Sarcoscyphae) albo-cincta, Berk. & Curt., Notices of 

 N. Amer. Fungi, n. 726, in Grev., vol. iii. p. 154 (1875). 

 Type examined. 



Neottiella ovilla, Sacc, var. flavodisca, Cke. & Mass., Grev., 

 vol. xxi. p. 70. 



Peziza vivida, Nyl., Flora, 1865, p. 476 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 88. 



On the ground among moss, especially species of Poly- 

 triclium. 



Peziza vivida, Nyl., as represented in Syd., Myc, March, 

 n. 277, and the British specimens from Eannoch only differ 

 from the typical N. polytrichia as here interpreted, by the 

 somewhat longer stem-like base ; the spores and internal 

 structure are identical. The fact that in N. polytrichi the 

 spores remain for a long time smooth, and the external down 

 to a greater or less extent disappears with age, has probably 

 caused confusion. I can find no specimens agreeing with 

 the fungus figured as Peziza polytrichi by Cooke in " Myco- 

 graphia," fig. 50, and described by Phillips in Brit. Disc, 

 p. 87. The species these authors have had in view evidently 

 belongs to the genus Barlaea, but whether synonymous with 

 any described British species depends on an examination of 

 the type specimen. 



Specimens examined in Cooke, Fung. Brit., exs., nos. 188, 

 475, and 476; Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 15; and Rouin., Fung. 

 Gall., n. 4045. 



Neottiella corallina. Mass. 

 Scattered, sessile, hemispherical, up to 3 mm. across, disc 

 deep coral-red, slightly concave ; excipulum composed of 

 interwoven, cylindrical or irregular, septate hyphae, 7-9 /x 

 thick ; margin irregularly fimbriate with short septate hairs, 

 20-40 X 4-5 p ; externally pale orange, downy, the hairs 

 being irregularly branched, septate, and colourless ; asci 

 clavate, narrowed at the base into a long, slender, often 



