MOLLISIELLA. 221 



spores 8, oblong-elliptic or fusiform, 3-5-guttHlate, be- 

 coming 3-5-pseudoseptate, 14^18 x 3-5 //. ; parapbyses 

 numerous, adlierent. 



Pyrenopeziza jugosa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1466. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 



Cups 100 /A broad. This is in external characters like 

 P. airata. (Phillips.) 



If the spores are multiseptate, the species cannot be a 

 Mollisia, and the characters are rather brief. It cannot be 

 properly placed by Saccardo, as his genus Pyrenopeziza has 

 continuous spores. 



Unknown to me. 



Mollisia micrometra. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 184. 



Ascophore very minute, subturbinate, brownish, naouth 

 somewhat contracted, finely striate, attached by strong 

 ■villous hairs ; asci clavate ; spores 8, filiform. 



Pedza micrometra, B. & Br., Ann. I\at. Hist., n. 773. 



Gorgoniceps micrometra, Sacc, Sylh, viii. n. 2089. 



On dead stems of Juncus. 



Extremely minute, punctiform, hom-brown; disc plane. 

 (B. & Br.). 



Ascophore not more than 1 00 /«. broad. The spores refuse 

 to quit the asci in the specimen examined, hence the 

 measurement cannot be safely given. (Phil.) 



Not examined. There are no ascophores present on what 

 was the type specimen in Herb. Kew. 



MOLLISIELLA. Mass. 



SessUe, subglobose and closed at fiist, then expanding; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, the cortical cells largest; ex- 

 ternally, especially near the margin, minutelj' hoary, due 

 to the presence of very slender, hyaline hairs; asci sub- 

 cylindrical, 8-spored; spores globose or subglobose, con- 

 tinuous, hyaline, 1-seriate. 



MoUisiella, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 193 fas a subgenus of 

 Mollisia); Pseudohelotium, sect. B. MolVmella, Sacc, Syll., 

 viii. p. 304. 



Characterised by the excipulum being minutely hoary or 



