304 F.UXG US-FLOE A. 



fasciculate, hyaline, long and narrowly fusiform, straight or 

 slightly curved, at .first 2-4-guttulate, then 5 7-septate, 

 25-35 x 2-5-3 p.; paraphyses narrowly lanceolate, apex not 

 very acute, hyaline. 



Trichopeziza sulfurea, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1653. 



On dead nettle and other herbaceous stems. 



Kecognised by the yellow exterior of the ascophore and 

 the long, narrowly fusiform, multiseptate spores. Hitherto 

 confounded in this country with Dasyscypha sulphured. 



Specimen in Cke., Fung. Brit., n. 569. Examined. 



ECHINELLA. Mass. (n. gen.) 



Ascophore sessile, at first closed then expanding, disc 

 concave, the margin -and for some distance down the outside 

 -clothed with brown hyphae ; excipulum formed of slender, 

 interwoven hyphae ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, ends acute, slightly 

 curved, distinctly 3-many-septate at maturity; paraphyses 

 cylindrical or slightly clavate. 



Readily distinguished by the setulose margin of the 

 ascophore, and the hyaline, septate spores. 



Allied to the genus Pirottaea, but differing in the dis- 

 tinctly septate spores. 



Growing on plants. Erinella differs in the entire external 

 surface and margin being covered with soft, cylindrical, 

 obtuse hairs, and in the lanceolate paraphyses. 



Echinella vectis. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, superficial, minute, rarely exceed- 

 ing 3 mm. across, subglobose and closed, then becoming hemi- 

 spherical ; disc pallid or pale grey, externally blackish-brown 

 and furnished, especially at the mai-gin, with dark brown, 

 rigid hyphae 35-50 x 5-6 p ; excipulum formed of slender, 

 interwoven hyphae; asci clavate, apex somewhat truncate, 

 pedicel very short, slender, often oblique, 8-spored; spores 

 hyaline, irregularly 2-seriate, narrowly fusiform, ends acute, 

 distinctly 3-septate at maturity, curved, 24-26 X 2-5-3 p.; 

 paraphyses slender, very slightly thickened upwards. 



Peziza vectis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist, n. 957 (1861). 



