488 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Specimens examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 4, and Moug. 

 & Nest., n. 781. Specimens of Vibrissea Margarita, sent to 

 Kew by the author, have also been carefully examined, and 

 proved to be identical in every respect with V. truncorum. ~ 



Vibrissea Guernisaci. Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1857, 

 t. iv. figs. 24-26; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 319, pi. x. f. 61. 



Ascophore sessile, at first subglobose and somewhat nar- 

 rowed at the base, then expanding until the disc is slightly 

 convex and more or less distinctly marginate, greyish or 

 with a tinge of orange, rather fleshy, glabrous, flesh- 

 coloured, subgelatinous, 2-3 mm. across ; hypothecium pa- 

 renchymatous, running out at the margin into parallel rows 

 of septate, olive hyphae; asci long, narrowly cylindrical, 

 8-spored ; spores needle-shaped, very slender, hyaline, apex 

 rounded, base pointed, straight or slightly bent, multi- 

 septate at maturity, almost as long as the ascus and arranged 

 in a parallel fascicle, 250-270 x 1 * 5-2 p. ; parapliyses slender, 

 septate, often branched near the slightly clavate tips. 



Gorgoniceps Guernisaci, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2082. 



On submerged branches of willow and alder. 



At maturity the disc is covered with the projecting spores, 

 which glisten like the finest floss silk as they wave to 

 and fro. 



Specimen in Elv. Brit, n. 143, examined. 



Var. leptospora. Mass. 



Disc yellowish ; paraphyses slender, septate, tips broadly 

 pyrifonn or globose, 6-7 p. across, otherwise as in the type. 



Peziza leptospora, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1166, t. iv. 

 f. 30. 



Vibrissea leptospera, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 320. 



Gorgoniceps leptospora, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2086. 



On decayed wood. 



Patellaria Fergussoni, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1490, 

 t. 11, fig. 6. 



Vibrissea Fergussoni, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 318 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 viii. n. 173. 



On branches of Prunus padus. 



Type specimens examined. 



Var. vibrisseoides. Mass. 



Disc yellowish, more or less distinctly bounded by the 



