NEW BRITISH FUNGI 
FOUND IN WEST YORKSHIRE. 
H. T. SOPPITT anv C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
Barlea modesta (Karst.), Karsten, Mon. Pez. Fenn., p. 122; 
Karst. Myc. Fenn., I., p. 64; Cooke’s Mycogr., f. 33; Sacc., 
Syl., VIII., n. 426.  Sessilis, subgregaria, planiuscula, vix 
marginata, sicca decolorata et lutescens (in statu vivo subauran- 
tiaca-lutea ni fallor); ascis cylindraceis; sporidiis sphzroideis, 
papilloso-asperulis, uniguttulatis, 18-20 diam.; paraphysibus 
apicem versus incrassatis. 
Hab. in sabulosis in Fennia.—Ascoma. 1-2 mm. lat. (Sacc. 
Lc}. 
Among hepatics on sandy soil, bank of stream, Wade 
Wood, Luddenden Dean, near Halifax, T. W. Woodhead, 
October 1898. Distinguished among the British species of 
Barlea by its larger size and spine-clad spores. Our specimens 
were 2-3 mm. diameter. 
Humaria rubens Boud., Bull. de la Société Mycologique 
de France, 1896, p. 13, Tab. III., fig. 1. British specimens 
were first found by James Needham growing among moss on 
wall top, Nut Clough, Hebden Bridge, Oct. 1896. Mr. Needham 
also succeeded in collecting more of it among moss on the 
ground in Crimsworth Dean, near Hebden Bridge, 4th June 
1898. The Nut Clough specimens were identified by Mr. G. 
Massee, F.R.M.S., of the Royal Herbarium, Kew. M. Boudier’s 
Original description not being accessible to us at the moment ot 
writing, we give a few notes taken from the specimens we first 
examined, which may enable local students to recognise this 
species from other small red Pezizze 
Ascophore sessile, 1-14 lines across, gregarious or scattered, 
dingy orange-scarlet, glabrous, rather fleshy, flesh 14 of a line 
thick, at first hemispherical, then expanded, disc almost plane, 
margin entire, cells of excipulum oblong-elliptic, 30-40 x 20-25 p, 
smaller towards hymenium and cortex, sparingly intermixed 
with strings of irregularly swollen, septate hyphe of much 
less diameter, cortical cells 8-10 », subglobose, giving rise 
near the base to short hyaline, septate hyphe 5-6, thick; 
asci cylindrical, 260-290 x 16 », apex rounded, spores when 
mature occupy about 3/;,,, of the space; spores 8, obliquely — 
uniseriate, broadly elliptical, smooth, 16-18 x 12-14 p, uniguttu- 
January 1899. 
