390 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Phacidium Vaccinii Fries, " Sys. Mvco," ii. p. 575 ; 

 Berk., " Eng. Flo./' v. p. 292 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 2264 ; 

 Fckl., " Syrnb. Myco.," p. 261 ; Gill, " Champ.," p. 170. 

 Xyloma erumpens Fries, " Obs," i. p. 202. 



Exs. Fries, " Scl. Suec.," 289 ; Fckl., F. Rh," 1029. 



On leaves of Vaccinium Vitis Idcea. 



Name Vaccinimn, the generic name of the plant on 

 which it grows. 

 Near Berwick (Dr. Johnston). Stiperstones, Salop ! 



5. Phacidium simulatum. B. and Br. 



Erumpent, linear, cup-shaped, margin irregular; 

 hymenium linear, red-brown ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, 

 sporidia 8, obovate, 2-guttulate, 10 x 4'5/j; paraphyses 

 filiform, enlarged at the apices. 



Phacidium simulatum B. and Br., in "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 967, t. 16, f. 20 ; Cooke, " Handbk.,"No. 2273. 



On dead stems of Clinopodium. 



Name Simula, to counterfeit ; resembling another. 



Langridge, Somerset ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



6. Phacidium Ilicis. Lib. 



Subinnate, convex, black, dehiscing into 3 to 5 lacinise, 

 hymenium whitish ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly 

 elliptic, 2-guttulate, 10 x 3'5/i ; paraphyses filiform, stout. 



Stylospores : stroma containing 3 to 5 cells, orbicular, 

 plane, black, shining, penetrating the matrix, splitting 

 into 3 to 5 laciniae; stylospores cylindrical, straight, 

 13 X 2ji. 



Phacidiwm, Rids Lib., Exs. No. 64; Fresen., "Beitr.," 

 t. 8, f. 17-21 ; Tul, "Select. Fung. Carp," iii. p. 138, t. 15, 

 f. 1-8; Cooke, "Handbk," 2272 ; Gill, "Champ," p. 166. 

 Phacidium multivalve Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 576 ; 

 Sphceria bifrons Sow, t. 316. 



Stylosporous stage : Ceuthospora phacidioides Grev, 

 t. 253 ; Berk, " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 283. Cytispora foliicola 

 Lib, exs. No. 64 



Exs. Moug. and Nest, 560 ; Desm, No. 1626 ; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 450. 



