352 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



opening by a minute pore ; stylospores oblong- ovoid, 

 straight or curved, 25 X 6'5/j." 



Tympanis Frangulw Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 174 ; 

 " Blench.," ii. p. 18 ; " Summa Veg. Scan," p. 400 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk," No. 2183. Dermatea Frangulce TuL, 

 ' Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. p. 161 ; " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, 

 t. 16, f. 1-8. Pezicula Franc/nice Fckl., " Symb. 

 Myco.," p. 279, t. 4, f. 46. Dermatella Frangulce Karst., 

 " Myco. Fenn.," p. 209. 



Exs. Moug. and Nest., No. 887 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn," No. 47 ; Rabh, " Herb. Myco./' ed. ii. No. 661 ; 

 Fckl, F. Rh," No. 764. 



On Rhamnus frangula. 



Name Frangula, the specific name Rhamnus 

 frangula. 



Shere, Surrey ; Highgate, Middlesex (Dr. Cooke). 



B. SPORIDIA LIN EAR- FUSIFORM. 



2. Tympanis amphibola. (Mass.) 



Rarely subcsespitose, generally scattered or solitary, 

 at first closed and subspherical, then open and concave, 

 at length plane, slightly marginate or convex and im- 

 marginate, rugulose, black ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, 3 to 5-septate, 14 20 X 3 4^ ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, simple or branched, slightly 

 thickened at the apices. 



Spermogonia scattered, convex or subconical, minute ; 

 spermatia oblong, simple, 3 5 X 1 1'5/z. 



Phragmophora amphibola Mass, " Framm," p. 13. 

 Peziza amphibola Nyl, " Fez. Fenn ," p. 66 ; Karst., 

 "Mon. Fez," p. 168; Cooke, "Grevillea," i. p. 132. 

 Tympanis amphibola Karst., " Symb," p. 252 ; "Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 230. Sderoderris amphibola Gill, " Champ.," 

 p. 198. J 



Exs. Karst, "Fung. Fenn," p. 840; Winter, "Fungi 

 Eur," 2960. 



On Pinus sylvestris. 



Name a/^jSoAoe, put round. 



