124 The Scottish Naturalist. 



On stems of Stachys. June. 



East. Moray 



West 



Forres, 1879. Rev- J. Keith. 

 Europe. 



2198. P. (Dasyscypha) rhytismse Phil]. Grcvillca, viii. p. 101. 



Minute, gregarious, stipitate, white; cups at first globose, then 

 expanded, clothed with short white hairs, bearing on their summits 

 globular crystalline beads ; stem rather long, villous to the base ; 

 asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, '003- '005 x "ooi mm. ; 

 paraphyses as broad but longer than the asci, acutely pointed. 



Distinguished from its allies by its habitat, size of sporidia, and the 

 rough globose beads on the points of the hairs. 



Parasitic on Rhytisma accrinum Fr. June. 



East. Moray 



West. 



Forres. Rev. J. Keith. 



2199. P. (Dasyscypha?) nuda Phill. Grevillca, viii. p. 101. 



Scattered, plane or convex, with a long, solid, rather flexuous 

 stem, pale orange-red, smooth, glabrous; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 oblong or oblong-fusiform, '005 - "oi x *oo2 - '003 mm. ; paraphyses 

 broad, longer than the asci, acutely pointed, filled with granules ; 

 5 mm. high, i l / z mm. across disc. 



This is an anomalous species, having the long pointed paraphyses 

 not hitherto observed in any section besides Dasyscypha, yet destitute 

 of hairs of any kind that would justify placing it in that section. 



On the ground among moss in fir-woods. Aug. 



East. Moray 



West. ■ 



Rothiemurchus, 1879. Rev. J. Keith. 



2200. P. (Hymenoscypha) alniella Nyl. Karst. Myc. Fenn. i. 



p. 129. 



Subgregarious, stipitate, white or pallid-white ; cup plane ; stem 

 slender, short, or very short ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 biseriate, or obliquely uniseriate, oblong enucleate, *co6 - "OI2X "0O2 

 - '004 mm. 



On catkins of alder. Oct. 



East. Moray 



West. 



Forres, 1879. Rev. J. Keith. 

 Europe. 



2201. P. (Hymenoscypha) echinophila Bull. C. Hbk. No. 2085. 

 On chestnut husks. Sept. — Nov. 



