398 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



** Disc dingy violet or purple. 



Barlaea violascens. Mass. 



Ascophore 4-6 mm. across, sessile, hemispiierical then 

 expanding, margin irregularly and minutelj' jagged; every 

 part of a dingy violet colour ; glabrous, usually furnished 

 with whitish thread-like ftbres at the base, which is some- 

 times whitish ; excipulum parenchymatous, cells rather 

 large, tinged with violet ; asci cylindrical, base attenuated, 

 apex rounded, very long; spores 8, uniseriate, globose, 

 hyaline or often with a violet tinge, smooth, uniguttulate, 

 8-9 fj, diameter ; paraphyses filiform, cylindrical, about 2 /a 

 thick, often curved at the apex. 



Peziza violascens, Cke., Mycogr., p. 46, f. 83 ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 88. 



Ascoholus Persoonii, Crouan, Flor. Finist., p. 56. 



Barlaea Persoonii, Sacc, Syll., n. 438. 



Damp sandy ground among moss. 



The dingy violet colour and globose spores characterise 

 the present species. 



*** Disc brownish. 



Barlaea areolata. Mass. 



Ascophores scattered, sessile, soft and fleshy, closed and 

 globose when young, then expanding and becoming plane 

 or slightly convex, immarginate, glabrous, dark brown, 2-3 

 mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum parenchymatous, 

 passing at the periphery and margin into parallel, somewhat 

 clavate, septate, brown hyphae ; asci cylindric-clavate, apex 

 rounded, base narrowed into a curved pedicel, 8-spored; 

 spores uniseriate, globose, hyaline, ornamented at maturity 

 with thin raised ridges 3-4 /j, high, anastomosing to form an 

 irregular network, 30-36 /a diameter; paraphyses numerous, 

 septate, becoming gradually clavate upwards from the 

 middle, 7-9 /x. thick at the brown tips, longer than the 

 asci. 



Boudiera areolata, Cooke, Grev., vol. vi. p. 76, pi. 97, 

 figs. 12-15 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 285, pi. xi. fig. 53 ; Sacc, 

 SylL, viii. n. 2125. 



On naked ground in damp places. 



