STICTIS. 381 



multiseptate, 230 240 X 1/5 2fj. ; paraphyses filiform, 

 very slender. 



Stictis arundinacea Pers., " Myco. Eur," i. p. 336 ; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 195 ; " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 373 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 179. Stictis graminum 

 Desm. (?). 



On Phalaris arundinacea, Linn. 



About J of a line broad. 



Name Arundinacea, the specific name of the grass 

 on which it is found. 



Towyn, North Wales ! 



6. Schmitzomia nivea. (Pers.) 



Scattered, immersed, at first covered by the whitened 

 epidermis, which at length splits longitudinally and falls 

 ;i\vay, revealing the elliptic, pallid hymenium; asci 

 cylindrical or cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, linear, 

 thickened near one end, pointed, multinucleate, 100 X 3/x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, adherent. 



Stictis nivea Pers., " Myco. Eur.," iii. p. 339 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 196; Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 167; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2223. Propolis nivea 



Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan," 372. Schmitzomia nivea- 

 De Not, " Disco, 8. Ncemacyclus pinastri Fckl, 

 " Symb. Myco," Nacht ii. p. 50. 



Exs. Desm, No. 763 ; Moug. and Nest, No. 1095 ; 

 Rabh, "Herb. Myco," ii. 712 ; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 812; 

 Fckl, "F. Rh," 1110; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 149; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit," ii. 661 ; Sacc, "Myco. Yen," 1200 ; " Erb. 

 Crit. Ital," ii. 890 ; Roumg, " Fung. Gal.," 542. 



On pine-leaves. Common. 



Name Kiveus, snow-white. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



GENUS III. STICTIS. Pers. 



Disc orbicular, immersed, at first urceolate, closed, 

 then open, marginate, persistent ; sporidia elliptic, oblong- 

 elliptic, fusiform or linear. (Plate XII. fig. 75.) 



