90 
The Scottish Xatiiralist. 
when moist fuliginous, clothed near the margin with shorty 
fuliginous, asperate hairs; asci subfusiform, broad; sporidia 
eighty fusiform, pointed at the ends, tri-guttulate, 10-14 x 
2-2*5 \ paraphyses acerose, a little exceeding the asci in length. 
On dead culms of Juncus squarrosiis. Greenay Hill in Birsay. 
Cups 100-200 broad, asci 35-38x7; paraphyses 40-43x2*5. 
This has many points in common with Dasyscypha Rehmii 
(Staritz), Sacc. ; but differs in being perfectly sessile and much 
smaller in size. 
Lachnella brunneo-ciliata, ;z. sp. 
Scattered, stipitate, cupulate, dark brown ; margin ciliated with 
dark brown asperate hairs; hymenium pale-cinereous; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia eight, oblong-elliptic, or subcymbi- 
form, obtuse, uniseptate, 12-14x3-4; paraphyses acerose, broad, 
exceeding the asci. 
On dead culms of Juncus squarrosus. Shore of Loch of Banks 
in Birsay. 
Cups 300-600 broad ; stem equalling in length the diameter of 
the cup ; hairs 60 x 4 ; asci 65 x 7 ; paraphyses 80 x 5. This is 
quite distinct from Dasyscypha Rehmii (Star.) Sacc. 
Lachnella (Helotiella) Laburni, ?i. sp. 
Cups minute, scattered, sessile, at first globose, urceolate, dirty 
white or pale brown, margin ciliated with pale brown hairs ; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate, or clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse, uni- 
S'jptate, slightly constricted, hyaline, 13x5; paraphyses slender, 
sparse. 
On twigs of Cytisus Laburnum^ Binscarth. 
The cups are 200 broad, urceolate ; the hairs are non-septate, 
paler near the base, 60-65 lo'^g? 3 broad; the asci are 70 x 10-12. 
It is remarkable that on the branches of Cytisus radiata, in 
Northern Italy, a minute species — Niptera Raineri (De Not.) 
Sacc, occurs with very similar sporidia. I cannot suppose, how- 
ever, that they are the same plant, as De Notaris has said nothing 
about the margin of N. Raineri being ciliated. 
Ascobolus stictoideus, Speg. 
Michelia, Vol. I., p. 474. Saccardo's Si/Iloge Fungorwn, VIII., 
p. 515- 
" Laxissime gregarius v. sparsus, minutus, vix \-\ mm. diam., 
externe aquose albidus, disco dilute olivaceo ex ascis exsilientibus 
nigro-punctato, totaliter in fimo immersus, non v. labiis tantum 
