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true fungus many years ago, since which time little or 

 no light has been thrown upon its affinity. 



Name Lichen, a lichen, colo, to inhabit. 



Wareham (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Isle of Skye (Mr. 

 C. Babington). Ireland! 



2. Stictis pallida. Pers. 



Scattered or gregarious, sometimes two or more 

 coalescent, immersed, elliptic or circular ; hymemum 

 yellowish ; mouth at first connivent, then open ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic or subclavate, hyaline, 3 to 

 5 pseudo-septate, 14- -17 X 5 6/u ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender, adherent. (Plate XII. fig. 75.) 



Stictis pallida Pers., "Obs," ii. p. 74, t. 6, f. 7 ; 

 " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 338 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 196 ; 

 'Summa Veg. Scan./ 3 p. 373; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 213; 

 Karst., 'Myco. Fenn.," p. 243; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2221 ; Pat., p. 212, f. 490. Cryptodiscus pallidus- 

 Gorda., " Icon. Fung.," ii. p. 37, t. 15, f. 129. 



Exs. Fries, " Scl. Suec.," No. 275; Karst., "Fung. 

 Fenn.," 262. 



On decorticated wood. 



In an authentic specimen in Fries's " Scl. Suec.," No. 

 275, the receptacles are mostly elliptic, J to J a line long ; 

 the wood immediately surrounding them is whitish. 



Name Pallidus, pale. 



Appin (Carmichael). 



3. Stictis microstoma. Carm. 



Very minute, punctiform, prominent, blackish, opening 

 with a minute round or subelliptic orifice ; asci cyliii- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 3-septate, hya- 

 line, granular within, 13 15 x 3ju; paraphyses filiform, 

 branched. 



Stictis microstoma Carm., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 213 ; 

 Berk, " Outl.," p. 375 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2222. 



On wood. 



Scattered, at first nearly white, with a minute orifice, 

 round which it gradually assumes a darker hue, and at 



