48. _ Soppitt and Crossland: New British Fungi. 
late, gutte large, rarely two smaller; paraphyses septate, apex 
oe sae 8-9 p thick, filled with orange granules, 4 p thick below. 
In the Crimsworth Dean specimens the ascophores were 
2 lines across, disc bright-orange-scarlet ; asci 200-210 x 15-16 p; 
spores 18-19 x 13-14 » 
This species has a similar habit to Barl@a Crouani (Cooke), 
viz., that of growing embedded in moss, and may easily be 
taken for it by pocket-lens examination if not carefully looked 
at. B. Crouanz, however, when mature and in good condition, 
has a thin, pale, well-defined, entire or slightly-jagged margin 
which distinguishes it from this one. 
sangre nae ite on Sacc., Syl., VIII. n. 550; Peszsa deerata 
_.Karst., Mon., p. bs Hetil Pedrottis Bresadola: Pseudom- 
Sephile Pedrottit (Bres. ) Boudier 
On decaying flax-lining of a Seasteaut hearth-rug. Pecket 
Wood, near Hebden Bridge, June 1897, J. Needham. 
_ The specimens were very abundant. The growth of the 
hymenium in this species is remarkably luxuriant ; concave at 
first, prominently convex when mature, sometimes wrinkled and 
projecting tips of asci which impart to it when partially dry 
a finely pruinose appearance. The exterior is radially streaked 
with thin, closely adpressed lines of brown, septate, thin-walled, 
flexuous hyphe, 80-120 x 4-5 », with upper cell almost hyaline, 
apex rounded. The excipulum is composed of densely inter- 
woven, hyaline, curly, branched hyphz, 4-6» thick, these give 
place at the cortex to rotund-polygonal, ochrey-brown cells, 
10-24 » diam., from which spring the lines of brown hyphe. : 
Our spore diameters are 14-16x8-gp (Karsten’s 10-14 x 7-8). 
_ The spores occupy about half the ascus; paraphyses often 
- branched. Well developed ascophores bear a strong external 
resemblance to sessile forms of Ombrophila clavus, while the 
internal structure, with the exception of the broadly-elliptical 
Spores, approaches A/olléstza. Boudier founded a new genus, | 
_ Pseudombrophitla, on Bresadola’s species. | Massee considers 
this to be a Moll ; ae 
Mollisia pteriditsh Karst. Myc. Fenn.; 1, p.- 194} Saceiy: 
Syl, VIII. n. 1446; Subgregaria, sessilis, concava v. concavi- 
uscula, nag pallido- umbrina, margine subcrenulato inequali, 
0°2-0°4 mm. lat; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis, 35-45 X 4-5 p», obtur- 
aculo, ai ito jodo obsolete czrulescente; sporidiis elongatis 
vy. aciculari-elongatis, rectis, vulgo guttulatis, 5-10 X 1-2 p. 
Hab. ad stipites Pteridis aquilinze vetustos in 
Aboensi Fenniz Shee. c.) 
