Mas see and Cross/and : New British Discomycetes. 187 



Readily disting-uished by the yellowish-green colour of the 

 ascophore. Has a superficial resemblance to Mollisia mali Phill. 

 No specimen of this species exists in the Berkeley Herbarium 

 at Kew, hence the diagnosis given in Brit. Fungris-Flora, IV., 

 p. 356, was incomplete. 



Geopyxis albida (Gill.) Mass. 



Syn. Aleuria albida Gillet, Discom. France, p. 36, cum icone ; 

 Crossl., 'The Naturalist,' January 1900, p. 7. 

 Acetabula albida Sacc, Syll. VIII., n. 194. 

 Warehouse yard, Halifax. 



Barlssa modesta Sacc, Syll. VIII., n. 426 ; Sopp. and Crossl., 

 'The Naturalist,' January 1899, p. 27. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, soft, fleshy, subglobose at 

 first, becoming- plane, 2-3 mm. across, clear orange-red ; asci 

 cylindrical, apex obtuse, 250-300 x 23-26 /x, 8-spored ; spores 

 1 -seriate, hyaline, globose, smooth at first, then covered with 

 slender spines about 3 \x long; paraphyses septate, apex clavate, 

 7-8 fx thick, containing orange globules ; excipulum and cortex 

 formed of large subglobose cells. 



Among Hepatics, on sandy ground, Luddenden Dean, near 

 Halifax, T. W. Woodhead. 



Distinguished among British species by its large size, clear 

 colour, and spinulose spores. 



Barlwa Persoonii Sacc, Syll. VIII., n. 438; Crossl., 'The 



Naturalist,' January 1900, p. 9. 

 Syn. Ascobolus Persoonii Crouan, Flor. Finist., p. 56. 



Barlcea violascens Massee, Brit. Fung. Flora, IV., p. 398. 

 Mossy ground, Hebden Bridge. 



Humaria carneola Winter, Hedw., XX., p. 130; Salmon, 

 Quekett Micr. Journ. VII., 372, pi. 20, figs. 4-7. 

 Growing on living moss — Tetraplodon mnioides B. & S. — on 

 a mountain called Quinag, near Inchnudamph, Sutherlandshire, 

 Scotland. 



A beautiful little discomycete ; spores minutely warted, 

 usually only four in an ascus. 



Humaria rubens Boud., Bull. Soc. Myc France, 1896, p. 13, 

 Tab. 3, f. 1. Sopp. and Crossl., 'The Naturalist,' January 

 1899, p. 27. 



Growing among moss, Nut Clough and Crimsworth Dean, 

 both near Hebden Bridge. 



1901 June 1. 



