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FUNGI. 
Feziza montiaecola, Berk ., Flora N. Zealand , Vol. II., p. 201 (1855). 
Sessile, globose at first, soon becoming plane, rather fleshy, 
pitch-brown when moist, black when dry, up to \ m.m. across, 
glabrous ; cortex parenchymatous, cells almost regular in size, 
polygonal, sooty-brown, 8-10 /x diameter ; asci clavate, apex 
slightly narrowed, base produced into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; 
spores irregularly 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, hyaline, smooth, 
continuous, narrowly elliptical, ends obtuse, 1-2 guttulate, 11-13 X 
4- 5 fx) paraphyses numerous, very slender below, more or less 
forked, tips brown, thickened up to 7-8 /x broad. 
Mollisia monticecola , Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 1348, clusters of 
2-3, nestling in the axis of the leaves. 
On dead plants of Montia fontana. 
Eastern coast of New Zealand (Colenso). 
Type specimen examined. 
Feziza (Mollisia) sclerogena, Berk. Curt., Fungi Cubenses , A <o. 69 5, 
in Linn. Soc. Journ., Vol. x., p. 369 (1869). 
Gregarious, sessile, globose at first, then expanding until almost 
flat, margin remaining slightly raised and incurved, -J-l m.m. 
across ; rather fleshy, soft when moist, rigid when dry ; every- 
where pale yellow, glabrous externally and at the margin ; cortex 
truly parenchymatous, cells hexagonal-oblong, slightly elongated 
radially, 15-20 x 10-12 p, becoming smaller upwards, and running 
out at the margin into closely-packed, parallel hyphae ; asci clavate, 
wall rather thick, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, elon- 
gated, narrowly fusiform, ends somewhat pointed, usually slightly 
curved, smooth, hyaline, guttulate, finally 3-septate, 30-36 X 
5- 6 /x ; paraphyses hyaline, slender, apex not thickened. 
Belonidium sclerogenum , Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 2053. 
On palm petioles. Cuba. (C. Wright, No. 754.) 
Type specimen examined. 
Feziza (Hymenoscyphae) soleniiformis, BerJc. Sf Curt., Notices of 
North American Fungi, No. 748, in Grev., Vol. III., p. 160 (1875). 
Pezizella soleniiformis , Sacc. Syll., viii., No. 1159. 
The type specimen of the above proves to be a species of 
Cypliella , having smooth, hyaline, subglobose spores 4-5 fx 
diameter. 
On rotten wood. Alabama. (Peters.) 
Helotium alutaceum, B. <$■ Br., Fungi of Ceylon , No. 956, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Vol. xiv., p. 107 (1875); Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 1020. 
Gregarious ; sessile or attached by a very short, narrowed base, 
closed when young, then expanding and becoming almost plane, 
margin whitish, minutely downy, often rather wavy ; disc pale tan- 
colour, externally whitish, attached to the matrix by white down 
springing from the base ; excipulum minutely parenchymatous, 
the cells very narrow and elongated radially — from base to margin 
— becoming larger towards the outside, cortical cells polygonal, 
8-11 /X diameter, passing into parallel hairs at the margin; asci 
cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, obliquely arranged, con- 
