198 . FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



Pseudopeziza simulata. Mass. 



Ascophore emmpent, narrowly elliptical, about t mm. 

 long, the sides at first rolled in, leaving a narrow slit like 

 some Mysterium, then expanding and forming an irregular 

 margin, girt by the raised margin of the ruptured epidermis ; 

 blackish olive externally, cells of the excipulum parenchy 

 matous, rather small, external ones olive ; disc slightly 

 concave, reddish-brown or greyish with an olive tinge ; asci 

 oylindric-clavate, attenuate below ; spores 8, obliquely 

 uniseriate, smooth, hyaline, slightly obovate, eguttulate, 

 9-10 X 4-5 /jl; paraphyses numerous, filiform, 1|^ /a thick, 

 apex clavate, mostly longer than the asci. 



Phacidium simulatum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. iii. 

 vol. vii., p. 13 (n. 967), pi. xvi. f. 20; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 390 ; Sacc, Syll., n. 2943. 



On dead stems of Clinopodium. Dr. Quelet has found thc- 

 same species in France on Lycopus europaeus. 



Scattered ; narrowly elliptical, elongated in the direction 

 of the long axis of the stem. The figure by Berkeley and 

 Broome represents the disc as being circular, which is not 

 the case ; the torn raised margin in the drawing represent.^ 

 the epidermis of the plant, and not the margin of the 

 fungus. 



The type specimen examined. 



Pseudopeziza rubi. Mass. 



Gregarious, erumpent, then becoming almost superficial, 

 surrounded by the torn epidermis, at first closed then be- 

 coming almost plane, concave and marginate when dry, 

 blackish, glabrous, soft when moist, becoming rather horny 

 when dry, ^— | mm. across; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 6-9 /x diameter, blackish- 

 olive, running parallel, towards the margin ; asci clavate, 

 apex narrowed and the wall thickened, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly cylin- 

 drical or with a slight tendency to become clavate, straight, 

 7-9 X 1 • 5-2 /i ; paraphyses hyaline, slightly thickened at 

 the apex, which is often inclined to be lanceolate. 



Exdpula rubi, Fries, Syst. Myc, ii. p. 190. 



Pyrenpeziza rubi, Eehm., Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 611, figs. 

 1-5, p. 604; Sacc, Syll., n. 1489. 



