376 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



farinose, becoming spadiceous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 oblong, obtuse, slightly bent, with 2, 3, or even 4 guttue, 

 15^u long. 



Stictis versicolor, Fries, var. Strobilina Desm., 

 " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1842, p. 52. 



Exs. Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1316, and ed. 

 ii. No. 716. 



On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 



Cups J a line broad ; when elongated they may be Ii 

 lines long. 



Desmaziere remarks that there is no danger of con- 

 founding this with P. rhodoleuca, which has a rosy- white 

 disc, is yellow within, and has didymus (uniseptate) 

 sporidia ; but the probability is that they are only condi- 

 tions of the same plant, and in the estimation of some 

 would both be regarded as not specifically distinct from 

 P. versicolor. 



Name Strobilos, a pine-cone. 



4. Propolis versicolor. Fries. 



Immersed, suboblong, plane ; margin spurious, 

 laciniate ; hymenium at length farinaceous ; asci broadly 

 clavate ; sporidia oblong, rounded at the ends, slightly 

 curved, with 2 or more guttse, 24 30 x 7 9/* ; para- 

 physes filiform. (Plate XI. fig. 73.) 



Stictis Propolis versicolor Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 

 198 ; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2230 ; Corda, " Icon.," ii. t. 15, 

 f. 133. Propolis versicolor Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 372 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 182, c. i. ; Pat., p. 30, f. 70. 

 Cryptomyces versicolor " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 214. Propolis 

 faginea (Schrad.) Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 244. 



Exs. Fries, No. 276; Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1109; Rav.. 

 "Fung. Am.," 315, 316; Roumg., "Fung. Gal.," 1962; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 463. 



On pales, chips, sticks, etc. 



Fries names four varieties of this species, but, as 110 

 regard was paid by him to the sporidia, it would be vain 

 to attempt any definition of these. 



