MASSEEA, 



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Agreeing with Humaria in size, habit, and structure of 

 the ascophore, but differing in the septate spores. 



Masseea quisquilarum. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2017. 

 Ascophores gregarious, sessile, at first globose and closed, 

 then expanding and becoming concave or plane, fleshy, 

 glabrous, clear yellow, 23 mm. across ; excipulum paren- 



Masseea quisquilarum, Sacc. Fig. 1, nat. size; Fig. 2, ascophores, 

 slightly x ; Fig. 3, sections of same, slightly x ; Fig. 4, portion of 

 excipulum x 400 ; Fig. 5, asci and paraphyses, x 400 ; Fig. 6, free 

 spores, X 500. 



chymatous, cells subquadrate or polygonal, 6-8 /A diameter, 

 running out in more or less parallel series at the surface 

 and margin ; asci broadly clavate, apex somewhat truncate, 

 base narrowed into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, straight or 



2 D 2 



