Mas see. —A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 297 
Hab . — On the ground (?). 
Di's/r . — China (Tsang-chan, above Ta-li, M. V abbt Felavay). 
A very remarkable species, the type of structure being unique. 
I once met with what appeared to be at first sight a structure 
agreeing exactly with that described above, and was on the point of 
describing it as a new genus, when I discovered that it was simply 
a Mitrula, the ascigerous portion of which had been crushed and 
burst open, thus presenting a flattened expansion, more or less incised, 
and with one surface fertile and the other sterile. I have no evidence 
that such is the explanation in the present instance. 
NEOLECTA, Speg . 
Ascigerous portion sharply defined, terminal on a stem with which 
it is homogeneous, terete or spathulato-compressed, bright coloured. 
Asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores globose, hyaline, simple ; para- 
physes absent. 
Neoleeta, Spegazzini, Fung. Argent., Pug. iv, in Anal. Soc. Cient. 
Argentina, tom. ix, 83, 1880; Sacc., Syll. viii, 40, 1889. 
Agreeing in general habit with the genera Mitrula and Spathularia , 
but distinguished from these and every other genus by the globose 
spores. 
Disir . — One species, confined to Brazil. 
Neoleeta flavo-virescens, Speg., Fung. Arg., Pug. iv, Anal. Soc. 
Cient. Argentina, ix, 83, 1880; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 131, 1889. 
(PI. XIII, Figs. 89, 90.) 
Ascigerous portion irregularly cylindrical or clavate-compressed, 
often spathulate, apex obtuse or wavy and rounded, base more or 
less distinct, narrowed into the stem, 15-25 mm. high by 2-5 mm. 
broad; thickish, somewhat elastic and fleshy, even, quite glabrous, 
rarely here and there grooved and plicate, very bright greenish-yellow ; 
stem subterete, continuous and homogeneous with the fertile portion, 
even or minutely rugulose, paler, minutely and irregularly rooting 
below, 4-10 mm. long, 1-1-5 mm - thick. Asci cylindrical or cylindric- 
subclavate, apex very obtuse, narrowed below into a long, slender 
pedicel, 80-85x5-6/*; iodine gives no blue colour, wall of ascus 
everywhere thin, dehiscing by an operculum ; spores 8, globose, 
hyaline, with 1 large, eccentric oil globule, hyaline, 4-5 /* diameter. 
