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true fungus many years ago, since which time little or 

 no light has been thrown upon its affinity. 



Name — Lichen, a lichen, colo, to inhabit. 



Wareham (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Isle of Skye (Mr. 

 C. Babington). Ireland ! 



2. Stictis pallida. Pers. 



Scattered or gregarious, sometimes two or more 

 coalescent, immersed, elliptic or circular ; hymenium 

 yellowish ; mouth at first connivent, then open ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic or subclavate, hyaline, 3 to 

 5 pseudo-septate, 14 — 17 X 5 — 6/x ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender, adherent. (Plate XII. fig. 75.) 



Stictis pallida — Pers., "Obs.," ii. p. 74, t. 6, f. 7 

 "Myco. Eur./' i. p. 338; Fries, " Sys. Mvco.," ii. p. 196 

 "Summa Yeg. Scan.," p. 373; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 213 

 Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 243; Cooke, ." Handbk," No. 

 2221 ; Pat., p. 212, f. 490. Gryptodiscus pallidus— 

 Corda., " Icon. Fung.," ii. p. 37, t. 15, f. 129. 



Exs.— Fries, " Scl. Suec," No. 275 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 262. 



On decorticated wood. 



In an authentic specimen in Fries's " Scl. Suec," No. 

 275, the receptacles are mostly elliptic, \ to h a line long ; 

 the wood immediately surrounding them is whitish. 



Name — Pallidus, pale. 



Appin (Carmichael). 



3. Stictis microstoma. Carm. 



Very minute, punctiform, prominent, blackish, opening 

 with a minute round or subelliptic orifice ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 3-septate, hya- 

 line, granular within, 13 — 15 x 3/u; paraphyses filiform, 

 branched. 



Stictis microstoma — Carm., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 213 ; 

 Berk., " Outl.," p. 375 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2222. 



On wood. 



Scattered, at first nearly white, with a minute orifice, 

 round which it gradually assumes a darker hue, and at 



