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in mature specimens are decidedly echinulate. The summits of the 



asci become bhie with iodine. 



* Feziza hirta. Sch. Phillips. El. Brit., No. 19. 



We mention this for the purpose of indicating the curious and 

 unusual host chosen by the specimens published in El. Brit., viz., 

 on decaying pilei of Pob/poriis squamosns, Fr. 



22. Feziza (Basyscyphae) brunueola. Deam. PI. Crypt 1, No. 1561, 



2, No. 656. Phillips. El. Britt., No. 28. 



Amphigenous, stipitate, villous, small, brown, somewhat scat- 

 tered ; young cups subglobose, mature ones plane, margined ; disc 

 pallid white ; stem short, glabrous, ivory-like ; asci cylindrical, 

 obtuse ; sporidia oblong . 



On dry oak and Spanish chestnut leaves. Trefriw, North Wales, 

 May, 1874. 



Desmazieres points out (Ann. Sc. Nat, 1841, V. xvii., /). 96), a 

 remarkable character in the paraphyses, viz., that they are much 

 longer than the asci, perfectly straight, fusiform, pointed, and as 

 broad as the asci. We have represented these as they appear to 

 us {fig. 2. fZ.) rising above the summits of the asci, a character seen 

 much more markedly in Distnazierella acicola, Libt. The faintly- 

 fuscous hairs clothing the cups are septate, the obtuse or pear- 

 shaped summits having a mass of hyaline cells on them, which 

 easily fall away. No blue reaction with iodine. 



P. 42, Jig 2. a. nat. size of plant ; b. the same magnified ; c. the 

 septate hairs with enlarged heads, clothed with hyaline cells ; d. a 

 portion of the hymenium ; e. paraphyses ; /. an ascus ; g. sporidia; 

 all much magnified. 



23. Feziza (Dasyscyphae) trichodea. n. s.* 



Congregated or scattered ; stem short ; cup at first globose, then 

 cupulate ; clothed externally with long rigid hemp-like hairs ; disc 

 pallid white ; sporidia biseriate, oblong, binucleate. 



On old decayed leaves of Pinus sylvestris. Trefriw, North Wales, 

 May, 1874. 



This species was found sparingly in one place only — a damp, 

 shady spot, where the pine leaves had become black from decay. 

 The cups when dry' are closed, the long hairs that clothe them in- 

 clining together over the mouth, and even when expanded by 

 moisture the hairs still incline inwards, forming a fringe round the 

 edge. The colour of the whole plant is nearly uniform, and the 

 hairs resemble in colour and texture manufactured hemp. The 

 asci are "001 in. long, the sporidia '0002 in. long. Iodine gives 

 no blue reaction. 



P. 42, Jig. 4, a. nat. size of plant ; h. the same magnified ; c. 

 hairs of the cup ; d. ascus and paraphyses ; e. sporidia ; all highly 

 magnified. 



* After searching all the sources of iri formation open to us in vain for a des- 

 cription of the species, and distributing specimens to some of our leading English 

 mycologists with a similar result, we have ventured to publish it as new. 



