NEOTTIELLA. 



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curved pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, fusi- 

 form, often very slightly inequilateral, hyaline, continuous, 

 2-4-guttulate, 28-32 x 6-8 p. ; paraphyses filiform, septate, 

 apex clavate and containing orange granules. 



Peziza corallina, Cooke, Grev., vol. iii. fig. 83; Cke., 

 Mycogr., p. 19, fig. 30 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 102. 



Ascobolm coccineus, Crouan, in Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., exs., 

 n. 1854. 



Humana coccinea, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 456. 



Leucoloma coccinea, Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 318. 



Neottiella corallina, Mass. section of portion of ascophore, x 350. 



On the ground among moss, heather, &c. 



Superficially closely resembling Neottiella leucoloma, but 

 distinguished by the clavate ascus, and fusiform, biseriate 

 spores. 



Cooke in establishing the present species gave Ascobolus 

 coccineus, Crouan, as a synonym, and as a matter of course 

 this has been copied by Phillips and Saccardo ; however, I 

 am not certain as to the identity of the two plants. Crouan, 

 in the specific diagnosis Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. iv. vol. vii., 

 1857, p. 175, pi. iv., figs. D, 15-19 of this species, says, 

 "spores oblongues, non attenuees aux extremites," but in 



