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XXXVI. DlNEMASPORIUM. 



Pycnidia cup-shaped, superficial, covered with dark brown rigid 

 bristles ; sporidia oblong or sausage-shaped, i-celled, 

 bearing a cilium near each end, hyaline basidia rod 

 like, rarely branched. 

 *iS6. D. graininum Lev., 3610, C.595, M.1161. 

 On dead leaves of grasses. 

 Tay, Dee, Moray. 



187. D. StrigOSUm (Fr.), Sacc, 361 1, C.596, M.1160 (sub 



Excipula strigosa Fr.). 

 On culms and leaves of grasses. 

 Tay, Argyle, Moray. 



188. D. hispidulum (Schrad.) Sacc, 3619, C.597, M.1162 



(D. Carmichael). 

 On dead wood. 

 Argyle. 

 * var. herbarum Cooke, C.598 (species), (D. & R. Trail). 



On dead stems of TJrtica dioica (Nettle), IAnaria vulgaris 

 (Toadflax), &c, near Aberdeen, in spring. 

 Dee. 



XXXVII. Discella B. & Br. 

 Pycnidia as in Discula, but sporidia 2-celled. 



189. D. carbonacea (Fr.) B. & Br., 3631, C.600, M.1170. 



On dead twigs of Willows (Saliv). 

 Tweed, Forth, Tay, Dee. 



XXXVIII. Pilidium Kunze. 



Pycnidia erumpent, discoid-scutellate, irregular, membranaceous, 

 at last torn into shreds along the margin, sooty black, 

 disk paler ; sporidia oblong or fusoid-falcate, 2-plurisep- 

 tate, hyaline. 



190. P. fuliginosum (Fr.), Auersw. 3639, C.603, M.1124 



(sub P. carbonaceum Lib.), (D. Keith). 

 On Willow branches at Sanquhar. 

 Moray. 



Melanconie^e. 



Fungi having neither pycnidia nor asci, consisting of sub- 

 cutaneous masses (pustules), sometimes at length erum- 

 pent, usually rather soft, dull coloured, grey, or bright 



