370 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



sent in the Kew copy of Karsten, Fung. Fenn., n. 835 ; said 

 to be the present species. If the spores become truly multi- 

 septate at maturity, it cannot remain in the present genus. 



Excluded species. 



Peziza erytlwstigma, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 1168, t. 4, 

 p. 31. 



Lachnella erytlwstigma, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 254. 



The very meagre description, and the absence of specimens, 

 render recognition of the present species impossible. 



Peziza episphaeria, Mart., Erlang., p. 465. 



Laclmella episphaeria, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 273. 



What the true species is, I know not ; but, so far as Britain 

 is concerned, the specimens I have seen belong to other 

 species. 



NEOTTIELLA. Cooke. 



Ascophore sessile or subsessile, rather fleshy, often small, 

 flattened or concave, externally downy, due to the presence 

 <jf slender, thin-walled, hyaline or slightly coloured, septate 

 hyphae ; excipulum parenchymatous ; asci cylindrical, 8- 

 .spored ; spores uniseriate, elliptical, hyaline, continuous ; 

 paraphyses present. 



Neottiella, Cooke, Mycographia, p. 261 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 p. 190. 



Allied to Humaria, but distinguished by the downy ex- 

 terior. Differs fromTapesia in the down being confined to the 

 excipulum, and not extending on to the matrix as a distinct 

 subiculum upon which the ascophores are seated, and in not 

 growing on wood. Dasyscyplia also differs in growing on 

 plants, and the pilose species of Geopyxis are distinctly 

 stipitate. 



Growing on the ground. 



Neottiella polytrichi. Mass. 



Ascophore turbinate and closed when young, contracted 

 below into a short stem-like base, becoming broadly open 

 but not plane with age, rather fleshy, not very brittle, 

 4-8 mm. across; disc deep orange, externally whitish, 

 distinctly downy, the down forming a delicately fringed 



