396 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



acicular, straight or very slightly bent, 11 — 12 x 3/li ; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



PJiacv Hum repandum — Fries in "Vet. Ac. Handl.," 

 1819, p. 108; "Sys. Myco," ii. p. 578; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 

 293 ; Berk., " Outl.," 379 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2269 ; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 169. Xyloma herbarum — A. and S., 

 "Consp.," p. 65, t. 14, f. 6. Leptotrochila repandum — 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 246. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. ii. 1640; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit.," 283 ; Rehm, " Asco./' 321 j Roumg., 

 " Fung. Gal.," 835. 



On stems and leaves of various plants. 



Name — Repandus, bowed ; the lacinise bent back. 



Common ! 



Rejected Species. 



Phacidium carbonaceum, Fries, is Discella car- 

 bonacea (Fries) — B. and Br., vide " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No, 

 426, t. xii. f. 8. 



Genus II. — Trochila. Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 



p. 367. 



Receptacle innate, at first closed, covered by the 

 epidermis, membranaceous, subcoriaceous, erumpent, then 

 splitting at the top irregularly. (Plate XII. fig. 77.) 



Name — rpox&og, a hollow running round the base 

 of a column ; raised in the centre, surrounded by a 

 depression. 



1. Trochila craterium. Fries. 



Hypophyllous, scattered, blackish, at length deeply 

 collapsed ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia very shortly oval, 

 almost round, sometimes with a large gutta, 7'5/x long. 



Pycnidia : Stylospores minute, subglobose. (Plate 

 XII. fig. 77.) 



Trochila craterium — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 

 367; Berk, "Outl.," 381 ; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 277 ; 



