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9. Patellaria compressa. (A. and S.) 



Scattered or crowded, minute, innate, thin, blackish, 

 when dry compressed, conchiform ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2 to 3-septate, straight or 

 curved, 8 11 X 3'5/x ; paraphyses filiform, branched. 



Peziza compressa A. and S., p. 340 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. 

 p. 207 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2124. Durella compressa 

 Tul, " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. t. 22, f. 8-14 ; Koumg, 

 "Fung. Gal.," 539; Gill., "Champ.," p. 191. 



On dead wood. 



This approaches very near to Patellaria proxima, 

 B. and Br., but the sporidia are not so large. 



Name Compressus, pressed together; having the 

 margin pressed together. 



Appin. 



10. Patellaria lecideola. (Fries.) 



Sessile, minute, somewhat horny, concave, black, 

 seated upon a cinereous spot-like crust ; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, pseudo-3-septate, 

 9 16 X 4 5^; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza lecideola Fries, "Obs. Myco.," i. p. 166, t. 4, 

 f. 1 ; Karst., " Fez. et Ascob.," p. 41 ; " Mon. Fez.," p. 167 ; 

 Nyl., " Fez. Fenn.," p. 64. Patellaria lecideola Karst., 

 "Myco. Fenn.," p. 234; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2179; 

 Gill., " Champ," p. 191. 



Exs. Fries, "Scl. Suec," 157; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 

 641. 



On dead wood. Karsten says poplar and birch. 



Name Lecidea, a genus of lichens ; like a small 

 Lecidea. 



Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 



11. Patellaria Lonicerce (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, subhemispherical, then 

 partly expanded, black ; hymenium concave, fuliginous ; 

 margin incurved; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, elon- 

 gate-oblong or oblong-fusiform, 6 to 7-guttulate, becoming 



