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42 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Form Sperm ogonia, Sphceria dubia — Pers., " Icon. 

 Pict," iv. p. 48, t. 20, f. 1. 



Exs.— Berk., No. 161 ; Moug., No. 494 ; Desm., " Crypt. 

 Fr.," ed. i. 665, ed. ii. 571; Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," ed. ii 

 517; Rehm, "Asco." 421; Roumg., "Stirpes," 265; Ellis, 

 "N. A. Fungi," 989; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 659. 



On branches of wild cherry. 



Name — Cerasus, the genus to which the cherry 

 belongs ; inhabiting cherry. 



6. Dermatea cinnamomea. (D. C.) 



Solitary or caespitose, sessile or substipitate ; hyme- 

 nium plane or convex, cinnamon-yellow, a little pul- 

 verulent beneath ; asci clavate; sporidia 8, oblong, rounded 

 at the ends, unequal-sided, 2 to 3-guttulate, at length 1 

 to 3 pseudo- septate, 20 — 30 X 8 — 10/i; paraphyses fili- 

 form, slender. (Plate X. fig. 65.) 



Peziza cinnamomea — D. C, " Flo. Fr.," p. 23 ; Pers. ; 

 "Myco. Eur.," p. 268; Fries, " Svs. Myco.," ii. p. 77; 

 Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1923; "Grevillea," x. 

 p. 51. 



On maple bark. December. 



Name — Cinnamomum, cinnamon ; from the colour. 



Leigh Woods, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



7. Dermatea H 'ought onii. Phil. 



Solitary, more frequently csespitose, erumpent ; cups 

 at first globose, then turbinate, base often combined into 

 a common stroma, dirty yellow, becoming brown ; hyme- 

 nium plane or convex, immarginate, pruinose; asci 

 broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, often un- 

 equal-sided, greenish hyaline, 3-guttulate, becoming 2 to 

 3 pseudo-septate, 27 x 6 — 9/u ; paraphyses filiform, 

 branched. 



Dermatea Houghtonii — Phil, in " Grevillea," vi. p. 24. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 144; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit.," ed. ii. 660. 



On dead branches of Portugal laurel. Autumn. 



