NEOTTIELLA. 375 



the soil ; disc orange ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely uniseriate, elliptic-oblong, hyaline, continuous, at 

 first smooth, but becoming sparsely ornamented with very 

 minute warts at maturity, 18-22 X 12-13 /x ; paraphyses 

 linear, straight, becoming clavate upwards, apex about 4 /x 

 thick, hyaline. 



Peziza cornubiensis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. ii. 

 vol. xiii. p. 17; (n. 767). 



Lachnea corniibiensis, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 229 ; pi. vii. f. 42. 



On manured ground. 



Sessile, § of an inch broad, depressed, attached to the soil 

 by villous down ; margin free, clothed with delicate obtuse 

 articulate hairs. (B. & Br.). 



Type specimen in Herb. Berk., Kew, examined. 



Neottiella microspora. Cke. & Mass., Grev., vol. xxii. 

 p. 41. 



Ascophore 2 mm. to 1 cm. across, sessile, fleshy, regular or 

 deformed by mutual pressure, subglobose then expanded and 

 the greenish yellow disc becoming quite plane or even 

 slightly convex; externally and also the narrow slightty 

 raised margin white, and densely clad with colourless, inter- 

 woven, septate hyphae about 50 x 3*5 //.; asci cylindrical; 

 spores 8, obliquely uniseriate, smooth, hyaline, elliptical, 

 14-15 X 7-8 jx; paraphyses colourless, filiform, about 1*5 fj 

 thick, very slightly thickened at the apex; excipulum 

 parenchymatous, cells small. 



On a dunghill. 



Usually crowded and of irregular form from lateral 

 pressure ; circular when growing singly. Immersed up to 

 the margin. Disc usually pale yellow-green, sometimes 

 sulphur-colour with only a tinge of green. 



Neottiella nivea. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 784. 

 Gregarious or scattered, sessile, subglobose, snow-white, 

 margin incurved, rather fleshy, 2-4 mm. across, contracted 

 and closed when dry, densely clothed externally with some- 

 what spreading straight, white, sparsely septate, subulate 

 hairs, 150-250 X 7—10 fx at the margin, where they are best 

 developed and the walls slightly thicker than elsewhere ; 

 excipulum and hypothecium formed of stout, hyaline, densely 

 interwoven hyphae ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 8-spored ; 



