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below into a somewhat slender pedicel, about 400 x 30 » ; spores 
8, irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, narrowly elliptic- 
fusiform, usually slightly curved, closely multiseptate (27-31), 
at length breaking up at the septa into thin dises, 110-140 x 
11-12; paraphyses very slender, septate, very slightly thickened 
at the tip. 
Platysticta magnifica, Cooke, in Grevillea, xvii. (1889) p. 95. 
Lichenopsis magnifica, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 2862. 
On sticks. Ceylon; tropical forests south of the island 
(Thwattes, n. 624). 
This species is described in a footnote, and is not n. 973 of 
“The Fungi of Ceylon,” as stated by Saecardo, Syll. viii. p. 697. 
This fungus cannot possibly remain in Lichenopsis as placed 
by Saccardo; and as it is not Platygrapha according to 
Montagne’s view of that genus, it should in future stand as 
Prarysticra MaGNiFica, Cooke. 
ParetLarta Livipa, Berk. § Broome, in Ann. § Mag. Nat. 
Hist. Ser. I]. xiii. (1854) p. 466. 
Gregarious or confluent, hemispherical, then almost plane, 
slightly narrowed to a very short stem-like base, or almost 
sessile but attached by a central point only, up to 1 mm. across ; 
dise yellowish-olive, with a buff tinge when dry, margin and 
externally pale, very minutely scurfy ; excipulum densely paren- 
chymatous; asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed, attenuated 
below into a slender longish pedicel, thick-walled, 8-spored ; 
spores irregularly 2-seriate above, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, 
smooth, hyaline, at first 4-cuttulate then 3-septate, straight or 
very slightly curved, 24-30 x 5-6; paraphyses numerous, 
slender, somewhat irregularly curved, often with short branch- 
lets, in other instances all simple and equal. 
Dermatea livida, Phillips, Brit. Dise. 340; Rehm, Krypt.- 
Flora, Dise. 256. 
Durella livida, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 3260. 
Dermatella livida, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 2027. 
Lecanidion lividum, Lambotte, Fl. Myc. Belg. 274. 
Patellaria constipata, Cooke, Handb. n. 2176. 
Exsice. Cooke, Fung. Brit. n. 578 ; id. op. cit. ed. II. n. 193; 
Rehm, Ascom. n. 462 (forma tetraspora). 
On pine-bark. Britain, Germany, Belgium. 
According to Minks the spores eventually become 8-septate. 
