FUNGUS-FLORA. 



** Disc dingy violet or purple. 



Barlaea violascens. Mass. 



Ascophore 4-6 mm. across, sessile, hemispherical then 

 expanding, margin irregularly and minutely jagged ; every 

 part of a dingy violet colour ; glabrous, usually furnished 

 with whitish thread-like fibres at the base, which is some- 

 times whitish ; excipulum parenchymatous, cells rather 

 large, tinged with violet ; asci cylindrical, base attenuated, 

 apex rounded, very long ; spores 8, uniseriate, globose, 

 hyaline or often with a violet tinge, smooth, uniguttulate, 

 8-9 p diameter ; paraphyses filiform, cylindrical, about 2 JL 

 thick, often curved at the apex. 



Peziza violascens, Cke., Mycogr., p. 46, f. 83 ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc., p. 88. 



Ascobolus Persoonii, Crouan, Flor. Finist., p. 56. 



Barlaea Persoonii, Sacc., Syll., n. 438. 



Damp sandy ground among moss. 



The dingy violet colour and globose spores characterise 

 the prt-sent species. 



*** Disc brownish. 



Barlaea areolata. Mass. 



Ascophores scattered, sessile, soft and fleshy, closed and 

 globose when young, then expanding and becoming plane 

 or slightly convex, immarginate, glabrous, dark brown, 23 

 mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum parenchymatous, 

 passing at the periphery and margin into parallel, somewhat 

 clavate, septate, brown hyphae ; asci cylindric-clavate, apex 

 rounded, base narrowed into a curved pedicel, 8-spored ; 

 spores uniseriate, globose, hyaline, ornamented at maturity 

 with thin raised ridges 3-4 p. high, anastomosing to form an 

 irregular network, 30-36 /* diameter; paraphyses numerous, 

 (septate, becoming gradually clavate upwards from the 

 middle, 79 //. thick at the brown tips, longer than the 

 asci. 



Boudiera areolata, Cooke, Grev., vol. vi. p. 76, pi. 97, 

 figs. 12-15; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 285, pi. xi. fig. 53; Sacc., 

 Syll., viii. n. 2125. 



On naked ground in damp places. 



