106 MR. @. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
PATELLARIA spHEHROSPORA, Berk. & M. A. Curt. in Cooke's 
Syn. Dise. U.S., in Bull. Soc. Nat. Sei. Buff. wii. (1875) p. 26 
(name only); Phillips, in Grevillea, xviii. (1890) p. 85. 
Scattered or crowded, applanate, indistinctly marginate, thin, 
circular or slightly elongated, 1-2 mm. across, black ; excipulum 
formed of interwoven hyphe of a dingy olive-brown colour ; asci 
cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, base 
narrowed; spores 1-seriate, or sometimes inclined to become 
2-seriate near the apex of the ascus, typically broadly elliptical, 
ends obtuse, smooth, clear brown, continuous, sometimes 1-gut- 
tulate, 9-12 x 7-8 w; paraphyses numerous, filiform, septate. 
Lagerheima spherospora, Sace. Syll. x. n. 4671; Massee, Brit. 
Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 97, ff. 51-54, p. 91. 
On rotten wood. N. Carolina, U.S.A. (Curtis, n. 4460) ; 
New Forest, England (Miss B. Taylor). 
In many asci the spores are all similar in form as described 
above ; in others some of the spores are normal, others globose, 
angularly globose, or piriform. 
PATELLARIA CLAVISPORA, Berk. § Broome, in Ann. § Mag. 
Nat. Hist. Ser, IL. xui. p. 464 (1854); Phillips, Brit. Dise. 
p- 366, pl. ll. £. 70; Massee, Brit. Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 102, 
ff. 15-20, p. 91. 
Gregarious, bursting through the bark when present, at first 
subglobose, then expanding and becoming marginate, rather 
fleshy, contracting and slightly concave when dry, pitch-brown, 
glabrous, 1-1'5 mm. across; excipulum consisting of interwoven 
hyphe which become clavate, septate, brown, and arranged more 
or Jess parallel at the surface and margin; asci clavate, apex 
narrowed, 8-spored; spores biseriate upwards, 1-seriate below, 
narrowly clavate, apex rounded; base tapering and acute, straight, 
or very slightly bent, hyaline, or with a tinge of green, 3-5-sep- 
tate, with an indication of constriction at the septa when mature, 
30-36 x 5-6 4; paraphyses numerous, slender, tips clavate and 
irregularly nodulose, septate, brown, adhering, sometimes 
branched. 
Durella clavispora, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 3257. 
On branches of privet, ash, &e. Britain. 
Readily distinguished by the clavate, septate spores, and 
paraphyses with brown thickened tips. 
