TSEUDOPEZIZA. 199 



Cenangium ruli, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 350? If the spore 

 measurements given by Phillips are correct 7-8 x 5 fj. it is 

 doubtful whether he had the right plant in view. 



On dead stems of various species of raspberry, bramble, &c. 



Specimen in Fries' Scler. Suec., n. 101, examined; also 

 Cooke, Brit. Fung., exs., ed. ii., n. 196, and Rehm, Ascom., 

 nos, 416 a c. 



Pseudopeziza Browniana. Mass. 



Scattered, erumpent, broadly sessile, at first quite closed 

 then expanding and becoming hemispherical, margin erect, 

 irregularly fimbriate, whitish, incurved when dry, fleshy, 

 1 mm. across; externally pale ochraceous-brown, glabrous; 

 disc concave, pallid ; excipulum parenchymatous, external 

 cells polygonal, 912 diameter, rather thick walled, brown, 

 limning out in irregular groups at the margin, and behind 

 these groups, as viewed from the exterior, are short, septate, 

 cylindrical, obtuse, tinted or hyaline hairs 3050 x 4 /*,, 

 springing from the inner layers of the excipulum; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, apex rather narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly uniseriate, or sometimes more or less 2-seriate 

 near the top of the ascus, narrowly elliptic-fusiform, the 

 apex sometimes rounded, and then becoming elongated 

 clavate, often very slightly curved, hyaline, for a long time 

 continuous, then 2-guttulate, and finally 1 septate, smooth ; 

 paraphyses numerous, filiform, apex clavate or fusiformly 

 thickened, hyaline. 



Peziza Browniana, Bloxam, in B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1072 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 408. 



Mollisia? Browniana, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1355. 



On dead stems of Epilobium hirsutum. 



Type specimen examined. 



Pseudopeziza palustris. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, erumpeut, sessile, closed and 

 globose at first, then expanding and becoming plane and 

 discoid, margin sometimes wavy ; disc pallid or greyish, 

 externally brownish, glabrous, |-f mm. across; excipulum 

 parenchymatous, cortical cells towards the base irregularly 

 polygonal, smoky-olive, 9-12 /x, diameter, becoming elongated 

 and narrower upwards, running out at the margin into 

 parallel, paler, obtuse, septate hyphae; brown septate 



