374 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



his figure the spores are fusiform with acute tips. The 

 description given above is from Cooke's Peziza corallina, 

 with which the specimen in Fuckel's Fung. Rhen., n. 1854, 

 is identical. 



Neottiella leucoloma. Mass. 



Scattered, sessile but more or less narrowed at the base, 

 concave, then becoming almost plane, rather fleshy, 23 mm. 

 across ; excipulum composed of septate hyphae, 6-8 //, thick 

 and running more or less parallel ; externally pale orange, 

 margin furnished with an irregular fringe of colourless, 

 septate hairs, 40-60 x 45 p ; below the margin stout, thick- 

 walled, branched, hyaline hyphae originate from the cells 

 of the excipulum; disc orange red; asci cylindrical, base 

 narrowed and usually slightly wavy, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely uniseriate, elliptic-oblong, smooth, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, sometimes 1-2-guttulate, 17-21 x 9-10 /x ; para- 

 physes filiform, gradually becoming clavate towards the 

 apex, which is 45 /JL thick, and sometimes curved. 



Octospora leucoloma, Hedwig, Muse. Frond., p. 13, t. 4, 



fig. A. 



Peziza leucoloma, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 91 ; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 fig. 28. 



Humana leucoloma, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 449. 



Leucoloma Hedwigii, Fckl., Syrnb., p. 317. 



On the ground among moss. 



Specimen in Kew Herb., named by Persoon, examined ; 

 also Rehm, Ascom., n. 351. 



Closely allied to Neottiella polytrichi, but distinguished by 

 the smaller spores, which, so far as observation goes, appear 

 to remain perfectly smooth ; the margin and exterior is also 

 less downy. 



Neottiella cornubiensis. Cke., Mycogr., fig. 309 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 773. 



Ascophore 1-2 cm. across, sessile, at first hemispherical, 

 soon plane, with the narrow upturned margin alone free; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 

 large, 18-25 p, diameter, pale yellow, dotted towards the 

 margin with short, blunt, thin-walled septate hairs, slightly 

 coloured, 30-50 x 6-8 /x; lower down the hairs take the 

 form of colourless, septate hyphae, and fix the fungus to 



