On the upper surface of living leaves of a species of Gnaphalium. New Zealand (Colenso, nn. 5056 & 5272).

Erumpent; gregarious or scattered; disc pallid, externally blackish, glabrous, about 1/2 mm. across; cortex parenchymatous, cells small; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, narrowed below into a slender pedicel, 100 x 9-10 µ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate in the upper part of the ascus, 1-seriate towards the base, hyaline, smooth, elliptical or sometimes inclined to be narrowly egg-shaped, or obovate, 10-12 x 4-5 µ; paraphyses numerous, very slender, tips very slightly or frequently not at all thickened.

This species is a typical Pseudopeziza, and will stand as P. GREGARIA.

On the under surface of leaves of Pittosporum crassifolium Hawkes Bay, New Zealand (Colenso).

Scattered or gregarious, sessile, globose and closed at first, then opening by a minute pore, finally saucer-shaped, the entire margin remaining erect or slightly incurved, glabrous, 1/2 - 1/3 mm. diameter ; disc reddish-brown, externally blackish; hypothecium and excipulum formed of very slender, branched, septate hyphae, which pass at the cortex into brownish, grumous cells ; asci broadly cylindric-clavate, apex narrowed and not blue with iodine, 75-80 x 12 µ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly curved, 3-4-transversely-septate, afterwards with one or more vertical or oblique septa, 27-30 x 7-8 µ; Paraphyses numerous, very slender, hyaline, septate, not at all thickened at the tip.