122' NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



linear ; sporidia cylindrical, narrow, enucleate, straight, or slightly 

 bent, -025 X '002 m.m. 



On dead wood washed up from the Loch. Lynwilg, Scotland 

 (Rev. J. Keith). 



Plate 62, fig. iv. — 1, natural size of plant; 2, cups magnified; 

 3, asci and paraphyses ; 4, sporidia. 



52. Feziza (IMLollisea) mauza. n.s. 



Scattered, sessile, at first globose, becoming patellate, sooty- 

 black; margin raised, crenulate ; asci clavate, elongated, and 

 narrow below ; paraphyses curved at the summits ; sporidia nar- 

 rowly fusiform, with five to seven nuclei, 'OS-'OSS X •005--006m.m. 



On dead wood, Dinmore, Hereford. Oct., 1875. 



Plate 62, fig. hi. — 1, natural size of plant; 2, cups enlarged; 

 3, cells of exterior of cup x same as sporidia ; 4, asci and para- 

 physes; 5, sporidia. 



53. Feziza (Mollisea) retzusa. n.s. 



Minute, scattered, at first concealed by the epidermis, then 

 erumpent, sessile, hemispha;rical, or oblong, straw-coloured, 

 smooth ; asci clavate ; sporidia eight, biseriate, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 •017 -'OlO X -OOS-'OOe m.m. ; paraphyses not visible. 



On needles of larch. Trefriw, North Wales. May, 1874. 



When dry this is found with difficulty, as it becomes con- 

 tracted, and conceals itself under a kind of lid formed of the 

 ruptured epidermis; but when moist it is sufficiently conspicuous 

 under a pocket lens. It should stand near Feziza erumpens, 

 Grev. 



Plate 62, fig. vi. — 1, natural size of P. rctrusa; 2, {he same, 

 much enlarged ; 3, ascus ; 4, sporidia. 



64. Feziza (IKEollisia) ulcezata. n.s. Phillips, El Brit., No. 83. 



Scattered, erumpent, stictieform, then patellate ; margin frac- 

 tured ; disc dirty-orange ; asci clavate, tctrasporous ; paraphyses 

 enlarged at the summits, simple or forked, often contorted ; 

 sporidia ovate, granular within, -015 x "008 m.m. 



This is allied to P. fusarioidcs, Berk., and P. assimilis, C. & P. ; 

 but differs from both in the much larger sporidia, and having only 

 four in each ascus. 



On Aster tripolium. Kings Lynn (C. B. P.). Sept., 1875. 



Plate 62, fig. v. — I, natural size of plant ; 2, the same magni- 

 fied ; 3, asci and paraphyses ; 4, sporidia. 



Since the foregoing was in type, we have discovered that the 

 same species is described by Berk. & Br. in Ann. Nat. Hist, as 

 Pez. Tripolii. 



55. Feziza (Mollisia) arenevaga. Desm. Ann, Sc. Nat. 1852. PL 

 Crypt, a., No. 517. Fhillips' El Brit., No. 84. 

 Erumpent, minute, scattered, of a soft waxy consistency, 

 glabrous, sessile, when young globose, then plane, externally 

 tawny, with a somewhat tumid tawny elevated margin, which is 

 black when dry ; disc watery, nearly white, when dry brown ; asci 



