PATELLARIA. 367 



clavate ; sporidia 8, clavate or clavate-fusiform ; 3 to 

 6-septate ; 30 X 5/z ; paraphyses filiform, the summits 

 branched, moniliform, brown, somewhat adherent. (Plate 

 XI. fig. 70.) 



Patellaria clavispora B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 774 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2166. 



On twigs of privet. 



Cups to J a line broad. Externally like P. atrata, 

 but differing in the asci, sporidia, and paraphyses. 



Name Clava, a club, tnrojooe, seed ; from the shape 

 of the sporidia. 



Lucknam, Wiltshire ! 



16. Patellaria macrospora. (Fckl.) 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, at first subhemispherical, 

 then nearly plane, black, glabrous, margin cinereous; 

 asci clavate ; sporidia 8, clavate or fusiform, straight or 

 curved, guttulate, becoming 3-septate, 15 20 x 2 3/z; 

 paraphyses filiform, branched, more or less adherent, 

 summits subglobose, brown. 



Durella macrospora Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," 281. 

 Peziza nigro-punctata Gerard. 



Exs. Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 131. 



On oak-wood. 



Name /uaKpog, large, cnropos, seed; large-spored. 



North Wales ! 



D. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR LINEAR-FUSIFORM. 



(a) Hyaline, simple. 

 17. Patellaria rubro-tingens. B. and Br. 



Contiguous, forming crust-like, elongated groups ; 

 cups minute, hemispherical, concave, black, rugose ; 

 margin tinged with dark reddish-brown, serrated, in- 

 curved ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform, 

 3 to 4-guttulate, 8 14 x 2/x ; paraphyses filiform, rather 

 stout. 



Patellaria rubro-tingens B. and Br. in Herb. Berk. 



