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(b) Hyaline, simple. 



4. Patellaria flexella. (Fries.) 



Immersed, compressed, minute, concave, subcoriaceous, 

 variously flexuose, black ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 



5 X 2'5,u ; paraphyses adherent, black at the summit. 



Peziza flexella Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 152 ; " Eng. 

 Flo," v. p. 207; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2125. 



Exs. Moug. and Nest., No. 1094; Roumg., " Stirpes/ 

 333. 



On dead wood, especially pine. 



Cups about 100 to 290/x broad. This is usually re- 

 garded by lichenologists as a Xylographa ; but, until 

 this and its allies are grouped on some more satisfactory 

 basis, we retain it here. 



Name Plexus, bowed ; slightly bent. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



(c) Hyaline, septate. 



5. Patellaria minutissima (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious or scattered, very minute, sessile, when 

 dry compressed, when moist expanded; externally blackish- 

 brown ; margin entire, incurved ; hymenium fuliginous- 

 brown; asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, hyaline, 2 to 3-guttulate, at length 3-septate, 



6 X 3/z ; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the bent 

 apices. 



On decayed wood. 



Cups about 300/i broad; when dry somewhat im- 

 mersed in the wood. 



Name Minutus, minute ; very minute. 

 Near Shrewsbury ! 



B. SPORIDIA OBLONG OR OBLONG-ELLIPTIC. 



(a) Hyaline, simple. 

 6. Patellaria pallida. Berk. 



Gregarious, sessile, pallid, with a somewhat obtuse 

 margin ; sporidia biseriate, oblong, slightly curved ; 

 12/z long. 



