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thickened, pore turning blue with iodine, 8-spored. Spores hya- 

 line, oblong, or oblong- fusiform, generally straight, continuous, 

 7-12 X I-5-2/X, often with a small oil drop at each end, 2-seriate. 

 Paraphyses hyaline, slender, 60-110 x 1-1-5/^. 



On dead stems of Oenanthe crocata, Perth, 21st July, 1919, 

 Mr James Menzies. 



Easily known by the whitish edge of the receptacle when dry. 



Urceolella Iridis Rea, v. PI. VII. 



Ascomata -5-1 mm. lata, flavo-virens, dein cinerea, ceracea, 

 gregaria, sessiha, urceolata, siccitate contracta, extus puberula, 

 pilis albis, obtusis, basi incrassatis, 3-4-septatis, apice intus 

 dense granulosis, 60-70/x longis, basi 8ju, crassis. Asci cylin- 

 dracei, basi parum constricti, apice acuti, 70-80 x lo-ii/u., octo- 

 spori, foramine immarginato, iodo haud tincti; sporae hyalinae, 

 leves, oblongae, vel subfusiformes, 13-15 x 4-4-5^1, intus minute 

 granulosae. Paraphyses hyalinae, filiformes, apice vix incras- 

 satae, 55-70 x 2/u,. 



Ad folia putrida Iridis pseiidacori, Methven Loch, Perth- 

 shire, 5th July, 1919. Coll. J. Menzies. 



Urceolella pseiidacori (Feltg.) Bond., which is also found 

 growing on decaying leaves of Iris pseiidacorus, differs in the 

 hyaline, pale yellow, shortly stipitate receptacle and the smaller 

 spores. 



Pyrenopeziza millegrana Bond. Bond., Hist, et class. Disc. 

 133; Bond., Icon. Mycol. iv, 326, t. 552. 



Ascophores •30--6o mm. wide, crowded, sessile, globose, ur- 

 ceolate, then cup-shaped; margin very prominent, entire, white; 

 h3anenium greyish; externally fuliginous, covered with short, 

 brown, septate hairs, 5-7 /u. in diam., arranged in irregular, in- 

 distinct ribs below the glabrous margin. Asci oblong-fusiform, 

 slightly attenuated at the base, 60-70 x lo-ii/u., 8-spored, in- 

 operculate, not colouring blue with iodine. Spores white, fusi- 

 form, 20-28 x 4-5/x, straight or somewhat curved, multi-guttu- 

 late, oil drops yellow. Paraphyses pallid, filiform, not thickened 

 at the apex, 60-70 x 3/u., simple or branched, sparsely septate. 



"On dead stems of Spiraea Ulmaria, Perth, 20th April, 1920, 

 Mr James Menzies. 



