386 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



8. Stictis punctiformis. Pers. 



Gregarious, minute, immersed, urceolate, suborbicular ; 

 hymenium reddish-brown or fuliginous ; mouth con- 

 nivent, surrounded by a border of the same colour ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, simple ; para- 

 physes filiform, globose at the apices. 



Stictis punctiformis — Pers. in Gay's collection in 

 Kew Herbarium, named by Persoon himself, with which 

 the English specimen has been compared. 



On dead willow- wood. 



Cups 100 to oOOfi broad. Very similar to S. Fagicola, 

 but the sporidia are simple, and the paraphyses are 

 globose at the apices. 



Name — Punctum, a point, forma, shape. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



D. SPORIDIA DOUBTFUL. 



9. Stictis graminum. Desm. 



Orbicular, scattered, small, deeply excavated ; disc 

 black ; margin prominent, clad with a white meal, nearly 

 entire ; asci elongated ; sporidia (very minute, globose). 



Stictis graminum — Desm., " Crypt. Fr," exs. No. 

 1071; "Ann. Sc. Nat." (1840), xiii. 185; B. and Br, 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1328; FckL " Sys. Myco," p. 250; 

 " GreviUea," i. p. 132 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 179 ; Pat, 

 p. 30, f. 69 (?). 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr," 1071; Fckl, "F. Rh," 

 1106. 



On Car ex paniculata. June. 



Desmazieres describes the sporidia as " very minute, 

 globose ; " Fuckel as " filiform, as long as the ascus." 

 Not having seen the British plant, we cannot determine 

 the form of sporidia (Cooke, I. c). 



Rejected Species. 



Stictis parallela, Fries, is a Xylographa (vide 

 Leighton's " Lichen Flora of Great Britain "). 

 Stictis longa, Fries, is a Xylographa. 



