STICTIS. 385 



Name Hysterium, a genus of fungi, slSoe, likeness; 

 like a Hysterium. 



Tharue (Dr. Ayres). Rudloe, Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. 



T> \ 



Jbroome). 



6. Stictis seriata. Lib. 



Innate, punctiform, orbicular, plane or but slightly 

 concave, disposed in approximate series, rubro-fuscous ; 

 asci linear-fusiform or sutclavate ; sporidia minute, 

 oblong or fusiform (?) ; paraphyses filiform, slender, ad- 

 herent. 



Stictis seriata Lib., " Crypt. Ard.," fasc. iii. No. 233 ; 

 Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea," iv. p. 233. Ncevia seriata 

 -Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 249. 



Exs. Lib., I c.; Fckl, "F. Rh.," 1841; Phil., " Elv. 

 Brit.," No. 100; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1710 and 1909. 



On Car ex ampullacea. 



Receptacles about 150 to 200ju, covering the leaves 

 on the under side. This species is easily recognized, 

 but after repeated searches I am not able to detect the 

 sporidia. Fuckel says, " sporidia 6 to 8, globosa, minuta, 

 hyalina includentibus." The asci are about 250 X 6//. 

 I am not sure that it should remain amongst the Stictei; 

 it is very near Phacidium. 



Name Series, a row ; from growing in a row. 



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



7. Stictis Fagicola (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious or scattered, immersed, urceolate, yellow ; 

 mouth connivent, nearly round or somewhat elliptic, 

 surrounded by a spurious border of the same colour; 

 asci cylindrical, slender ; sporidia 8, fusiform, straight, 

 simple, 8 x 2/z ; paraphyses filiform, globose at the apices. 



On beech fallen, dead, decorticated branches. 



About J to J a line broad. Exactly resembling ex- 

 ternally the next species, but having different asci, 

 sporidia, and paraphyses. 



Name Fagus, the beech, colo, to inhabit. 



Ellesmere, Salop ! 



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