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luatoTis brown cortex, cells G-8 fx. diameter, running out at 

 the margin into parallel, clavate, septate, brown hyphae ; 

 asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 ll-seriate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, distinctly 1-septate at 

 maturity, straight, 10-14 x 2-5 /jl; paraphyses hyaline, 

 about 2 fj. thick, slightly thickened at the tip. 



Peziza (Mollisid) typhae, Ckc, Grev., i. p. 131. 



Mollista typhae, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 188 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 1429. 



MoIUsia epityplia, Eehm, Eryjit. Tl. Disc, p. 532? 



On dead leaves of Typha. 



Externally resembling M. atrata, bxit known by the larger 

 spores, which become distinctly 1-septate at maturity. The 

 septa show up verj' clearly when the spores are treated with 

 a solution of iodine. 



Tyjie specimen examined, also Cke., Fung. Brit., n. 570, 

 and Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 127. 



Pseudopeziza ranunculi. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2979. 



Gregarious on brown epols or scattered, hypophyllous, 

 innate, erumpent, at first closed then expanding and becom- 

 ing discoid, blackish, thin and soft, glabrous, about }, mm. 

 across, hypothecium composed of hyaline, aseptate, densely 

 interwoven hyphae about 4 ju, thick, these pass into a truly 

 parenchymatous excipulum, coi'tical cells nearlj' similar in 

 every part, irregularly polygonal, smoky olive, 8—10 /a 

 diameter ; asci clavate, apex slightly narrowed, pedicel short, 

 rather stout, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 oblong-clavate, apex broadest, ends obtuse, for a long time 

 continuous, then 1-septate, the septum placed below the 

 middle of the spore, 15-16 x 6-7 /x; paraphyses hyaline, 

 continuous, about 2 /j, thick, apex thickened. 



Phlyctidium ranunculi, AVallr., Fl. Crypt., ii. p. 416. 



Mollisia ranunculi, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 200. 



Phacidium litigiosum, Eoberge, Ann. Hci. Xat., 1847, p. 181, 

 t. 8. 



Fdbraea litigiosa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3015. 



On fading leaves of Ranunculus repens, and other species. 



Specimens examined in Cke., Fung. Brit., Exs., ed. ii., 

 n. 452, and Eehm's Ascom., n. 650. 



Saccardo makes two species, ^tlaced in widelj- separated 



