306 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Echinella senecionis. Mass. 



Gregarious, sessile, suberunrpent, closed at first, then 

 "becoming almost plane, entirely black, closed when dry, up 

 to \ mm. across, externally, and the margin clothed with 

 rigid, "black ish-brown, smooth, almost opaque spines, these 

 are longest and most numerous at the margin, where they are 

 1-2-septate, rather abruptly acuminate, 40-50 X 6-7 jx ; 

 ■cortex parenchymatous, cells brownish, 6-8 \x diameter ; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, base stout, 8- 

 ■spored ; spores 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly cylindrical, 

 sometimes with a tendency to become clavate, usually 

 2-guttulate, for a long time continuous, finally septate, 

 8-14 x 2 jx ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened 

 upwards. 



Pirottaea veneta, Sacc. & Speg., Mich., i. p. 24; Syll., viii. 

 n. 1595; Bucknall, Bristol, Nat. Soc. Proc, vol. vi. Part 2, 

 1889-90, p. 6, pi. ii. fig. 9. 



Pirottaea gallica, Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 82; Syll., viii. n. 1596. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 



Peziza senecionis, Gke. & Phil., Grev. V. G., p. 104. 



Distinguished among allies by the short spores. In the 

 original description the spores are said to be continuous, but 

 in a specimen in Kew herbarium, communicated by Spegaz- 

 zini, I find some of the spores 1 -septate, and the same is the 

 case in the specimens contained in Speg., Dec. Myc. Ital. 

 "ii. 19, also in the type of Cke. & Phil. 



Echinella Crosslandi. Mass. 



Gregarious or sometimes almost crowded, sessile, base 

 narrowed, closed at first then expanded, but the margin 

 remaining more or less erect, about 1 mm. across ; disc 

 pallid, externally pale brown, becoming buff or pale drab 

 when dry, densely villose, hairs thin- walled, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, minutely rough 70-125 X 4-5 /x, straight, sparingly 

 or not at all septate, yellow-brown, tips paler ; cortex paren- 

 chymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 5-6 /x diameter; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, smooth, hyaline, elliptical, multiguttu- 

 late then 3-septate, 12-15 x 4//, ; paraphyses slender, hyaline, 

 cylindrical. 



On decorticated wood. 



