352 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



opening by a minute pore ; stylospores oblong- ovoid, 

 straight or curved, 25 X 6*5/i." 



Tympanis Frangulce. — Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 174 ; 

 " Elench.," ii. p. 18 ; " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 400 ; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2183. Dermatea Frangulce— Tul, 

 "Select. Fung. Carp./' iii. p. 161 ; "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, 

 t. 16, f. 1-8. Pezicula Frangulce — Fckl., " Symb. 

 Myco.," p. 279, t. 4, f. 46. Dermatella Frangulce — Karst., 

 " Myco. Fenn.," p. 209. 



Exs. — Moug. and Nest., No. 887 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," No. 47; Rabh, "Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. No. 661; 

 Fckl, " F. Rh," No. 764. 



On Rhamnus frangula. 



Name — Frangula, the specific name Rhamnus 

 frangula. 



Shere, Surrey ; Highgate, Middlesex (Dr. Cooke). 



B. SPORIDIA LIXEAR-FUSIFORM. 



2. Tympanis amphibola. (Mass.) 



Rarely subcsespitose, generally scattered or solitary, 

 at first closed and subspherical, then open and concave, 

 at length plane, slightly marginate or convex and im- 

 marginate, rugulose, black ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, 3 to 5-septate, 14 — 20 X 3 — 4^ ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, simple or branched, slightly 

 thickened at the apices. 



Spermogonia scattered, convex or subcorneal, minute ; 

 spermatia oblong, simple, 3 — 5 x 1 — 1'5/ul. 



Phragmophora amphibola — Mass, " Framm," p. 13. 

 Peziza amphibola — Nyl, " Pez. Fenn ," p. 66 ; Karst, 

 "Mon. Pez," p. 168; Cooke, "Grevillea," i. p. 132. 

 Tympanis amphibola — Karst, " Symb," p. 252 ; "Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 230. Scleroderris amphibola — Gill, " Champ," 

 p. 198. 



Exs. — Karst, " Fung. Fenn," p. 840 ; Winter, " Fungi 

 Eur," 2960. 



On Pinus sylvestris. 



Name — a/uuplfioXog, put round. 



