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become septate: there are no septate spores in my specimens. 
The ascospores are hyaline so that the brownish tinge of the 
spores examined by Massee was probably due, as he suggests, 
to the age of the specimen, or the poisoning for preservation. 
Currey does not give the habitat of the fungus, but Massee and 
Phillips record it as “on the ground”’; these specimens were 
found growing on decaying wood. 
Chlorosplenium versiforme (Pers.) de Not. This Discomycete 
also was taken in Horner Woods during the Minehead Foray. 
In my specimens the discs were of a bright olive green, not a 
dingy green as generally described, and this was due in great 
part to the green colour of the spores—a point certainly over- 
looked in the descriptions given by Massee, Phillips and Rehm 
who describe the spores as hyaline and colourless*. The para- 
physes which Massee and Rehm describe as slender, thickened 
at the tips and yellowish brown were here slender and branched, 
green in colour and not thickened at the tips. 
A postenudium vibrisseoides (Pk.) Boud. I gathered this fungus 
several times growing on rotting branches of ash lying in the 
water courses of Horner Woods Easter 1920. The violent 
shooting out of the very long ascospores from the asci was a 
very conspicuous feature, and as Phillips so aptly describes for 
Vibrissea truncorum “‘many of them remain attached by one 
end to the hymenium waving to and fro like floss silk glittering 
in the light.”” I watched this happening using only a pocket 
lens as I carried the branches on which the fungus was growing 
shortly after lifting them out of the water course. 
Pachyella depressa (Phill.) Boud. = ? Humaria Oocardii Sacc. 
In April 1920 in the Horner Woods I found a Mollisia like 
Discomycete on rotten wood, lying on very damp ground, which 
agreed in every respect with Phillips’s description of Pachyella 
depressa, and although looking like a Mollisia externally had 
microscopic characters very unlike that genus. At the myco- 
logical foray Sept. 1920 I found in several places in the same 
woods a Discomycete which agreed with Karsten’s description 
of Humaria Oocardii var. ligniaria. On looking up these fungi for 
their position in Ramsbottom’s list of British Discomycetes I 
found the latter species put down as probably synonymous 
with the former: and on examining both collections again I 
found them similar in every respect except that the apothecia 
of those taken in the spring did not show the blue colouration 
with iodine which was very evident when those collected in 
the autumn were tested with the same reagent. 
Catinella olivacea (Batsch) Boud. In August 1920 Dr W. T. 
* Boudier Icones Iv, 283, ‘‘Spores incolores ou a peine teintées.”” C.R. 
