NEOTTIELLA. 



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curved pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, fusi- 

 form, often very slightly inequilateral, hyaline, continuous, 

 2-4-guttulate, 28-32 x 6-8 fx ; paraphyses filiform, septate, 

 apex clavate and containing orange granules. 



Peziza corallina, Cooke, Grev., vol. iii. fig. 83 ; Cke., 

 Mycogr., p. 19, fig. 30; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 102. 



Ascobolus coccineus, Crouan, in Fuckel's Fung, 

 n. 1854. 



Humaria coccinea, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 456. 



Leucoloma coccinea, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 318. 



Ehen., exs., 



Neottiella corallina, Mass. — section of portion of ascophore, x 350. 



On the ground among moss, heather, &c. 



Superficially closely resembling Neottiella leucoloma, but 

 distinguished by the clavate ascus, and fusiform, biseriate 

 spores. 



Cooke in establishing the present species gave Ascobolus 

 coccineus, Crouan, as a synonym, and as a matter of course 

 this has been copied by Phillips and Saccardo ; however, I 

 am not certain as to the identity of the two plants. Crouan, 

 in the specific diagnosis — Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. iv. vol. vii., 

 1857, p. 175, pi. iv., figs, d, 15-19 — of this species, says, 

 " spores oblongues, non attenuees aux extremites," but in 



