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minute, black, closed ball, then expanding, disc concave, 

 pallid or brownish, glabrous and blackish outside, the some- 

 what incurved margin ,pale, ^, rarely -J- mm. across; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells polygonal, brown, 

 7-9 //, diameter, whitish and arranged in a parallel series at 

 the margin ; asci cylindrical, or sometimes with a very 

 slight clavate tendency, apex narrowed, almost sessile, 

 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 narrowly cylindrical, ends obtuse, straight or slightly 

 bent, 14-18 x 3'5/A, paraphyses slender, hyaline, slightly 

 thickened at the tips. 



Pyrenopeziza plantaginis, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1500; Rehm, 

 Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 625. 



On dead leaves of Plantago lanceolata. 



Distinguished from M. ncrvisequia by the smaller ascophores 

 being scattered over the surface of the leaf, and not mostly 

 confined to the veins ; the shorter, cylindrical, sessile asci, 

 the longer spores, and the smaller cortical cells. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 37. examined. 



Mollisia juncina. Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 545 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1433. 



Gregarious, sessile, subglobose and closed at first, then 

 expanding until most or quite plane, contracted when dry ; 

 disc yellowish or greyish, externally yellowish then brown, 

 altogether blackish when dry, up to | mm. across ; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells narrow and elongated 

 towards the pale margin; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 

 8-spored; spores hyaline, cylindric-fusoid, straight, con- 

 tinuous, usually with 2 minute oil-globules, 9-10 X 11 '5 p., 

 2-seriate ; paraphyses slender, somewhat branched above, 

 tips not much thickened, yellowish. 



Peziza juncina, Pers., Myc., Eur., i. p. 314. 



Mollisia mclatepltra, Sacc., Mich., ii. p. 81 ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc., p. 189 (not the species of Lasch !). 



On dead culms of Juncus and Carcx. 



Phillips mistook the present species for Peziza melatepJira, 

 Lasch, = Mollisia melateplira, Karst., although the latter, as 

 Phillips notes, has spores measuring 12-20 X 2 //. 



Specimen in Rehm's Ascom., n. 850, examined. 



