46 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



" Indessen ist hochst auffallend, dass bisher anderswo Lachnea- 

 Arten mit derartig gebauten Sporen nicht gefunden wurden. 

 Ich halte es daher nicht fiir unmoglich dass diese drei Arten in 

 den Formenkreis einer gehoren." 



Neotiella Hetieri Bond, in Bull. Soc. Mycol. Fr. xii, p. 12 (1896), 

 pi. Ill, f. 2. 



Apothecia gregarious, opening by a pore, hemispherical, then 

 plane, bright yellow, 1-2 mm. broad, externally densely clothed 

 with long, slender, flexuous white hairs, rarely septate; fur- 

 nished towards the margin with numerous white, pointed, rigid 

 2-4 septate white hairs 140-180 ^u, long x 5-9 ^u. broad, usually 

 arising in pairs from a common cell ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cells polygonal, small about 7-10^ in diam., becoming longer 

 and clavate at the margin. Asci cylindrical, apex rounded, base 

 gradually tapering 215-230/* long x ii-16/x broad, 8-spored, 

 spores obliquely uniseriate i6jLi long x 9-11/* broad, smooth, 

 hyaline, broadly elliptical containing one large central gutta. 

 Paraphyses fihform becoming clavate and frequently 2-4 times 

 branched towards the apex, containing orange granulations, 

 septate, up to 235)11 long x 2-3 /x broad (7-9 /x at the apex). 



Amongst moss on burnt ground in Pine woods. Inverness, 

 N.B., March 1921; Oxshott, Surrey, Oct. 1922, and Farnham, 

 Bucks., Febr. 1923. 



This species is at once recognised by the two kinds of hairs, 

 those on the excipulum being long and flexuous and usually 

 non-septate whilst the marginal ones are pointed and rigid. The 

 colour of the hymenium in my specimens was uniformly yellow 

 and not orange-red as figured by Boudier. The asci, moreover, 

 are constantly somewhat longer than in the original description, 

 where they are recorded as 200-210 /lc in length. A character 

 not mentioned by Boudier is the branching of the paraphyses. 

 Boudier placed the species near to N. alho-cincta (B. and Br.) and 

 N. albicans (Fuckel). It would appear to resemble N. nivea 

 (Romell) even more closely. 



Lamprospora dictydiola Bond., Hist, et Class, d. Discomycetes 

 d'Europe, p. 68 (1907); Icon. Mycol., pi. 403. 



Apothecia scattered, 3-5 mm. broad, orange red, marginal 

 flange paler and dentate. Asci cylindrical, hyaline, apex rounded, 

 base long and tapering, 230-300)11, long, 13-15 )Lt broad, 8-spored, 

 spores uniseriate, round, hyaline, very finely reticulate, con- 

 taining one large gutta, 16 fx in diam. Paraphyses filiform, apex 

 slightly thickened, up to 6-7 )u, broad, filled with reddish con- 

 tents, septate and forked at the base. 



On burnt ground amongst Moss. Farnham, Bucks., Febr. 1922; 

 near Mere, Wilts.. May 1923. 



