148 NEW OR CRITICAL FUNGI. 



Allied to Erinella lutea Phil., a native of Victoria, but differing in 

 the very broadly rounded apex of the ascus, and the narrowly 

 clavate spores. 



Scutularia gallica Mass. Ascophore sessile, applanate, fixed 

 by a central point, somewhat fleshy and of a pale brown colour 

 when moist, blackish and rigid when dry ; disc circular, plane or 

 very slightly convex, immarginate, when dry becoming somewhat 

 concave and with a sharp edge, 2-3 mm. across ; hypothecium 

 and excipulum parenchymatous, hyaline ; cortical cells polygonal, 

 12-15 jx diameter ; asci elongated, narrowly cylindrical, apex 

 rounded, narrowed below into a slender, often curved pedicel, 

 8-spored; spores hyaline, filiform, nearly as long as the ascus, 

 60-70 X 1'5 IX, rather flexuous, arranged in a parallel, shghtly 

 twisted bundle in the ascus, continuous, multiguttulate ; para- 

 physes numerous, slender, about 2 jx thick, septate, hyaline, 

 slightly clavate at the apex. 



On rotten wood in damp places, St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Nor- 

 mandy. 



Specimen in the Kew Herbarium, along with Ihihfariella pulla, 

 to which it bears a superficial resemblance, but dift'ers widely in 

 the hyaline, elongated, filiform spores. 



Ombrophila aterrima Mass. Ascophores scattered or gre- 

 garious, slightly obconic, attached by a narrowed central point, 

 subgelatinous when moist, rigid, horny, and patellate when dry, 

 everywhere black ; disc plane, distinctly marginate, sometimes 

 very slightly umbilicate, glabrous, 3-4 mm. diameter ; excipulum 

 parenchymatous, cortical cells polygonal, 12-16 /x diameter ; asci 

 cylindrical, apex rounded, narrowed below into a slender pedicel, 

 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, 

 usually 2-guttulate, elliptical, ends rather obtuse, 10-12 x 7 /x ; 

 paraphyses numerous, slender, hyaline, expanding above into a 

 brown pyriform head 6-8 [x diameter. 



On rotten wood in damp places. Juan Fernandez (Bertero, 

 1706). 



A very fine and distinct species, distinguished by the black 

 ascophore, which superficially resembles BuUjaria inquinans in 

 miniature. 



Scleroderris virescens Mass. (PI. 357, fig. 5). Scattered or 

 in groups of 2-3 individuals, which are then more or less connate 

 at the base, somewhat erumpent, globose and closed at first, then 

 expanding, the irregular margin remaining more or less incurved, 

 glabrous, entirely dingy, olive-green (when dry), about 1 mm. 

 diameter ; substance tough ; hypothecium and excipulum com- 

 posed of very slender, much interwoven, greenish hyphte, wbich 

 run out at the periphery into groups of larger cells, forming a 

 grumous external layer ; asci stout, subcylindrical, apex rounded, 

 contracted at the base abruptly into a very short pedicel, not at all 

 coloured blue by iodine, 85-95 x 18 /x; spores 8, irregularly 2- 

 seriate, hyaline, smooth, straight or slightly curved, cyliudric- 

 ellipsoid, ends obtuse, basal end usually slightly narrowest, 5-7- 



