TYMPANIS. 353 



Near Shrewsbury ! Found by Dr. Hall, locality un- 

 known to me. 



C. SPORIDIA VERY MINUTE, INNUMERABLE. 



3. Tympanis laracina. (Fckl.) 



Cups scattered or caespitose, erumpent, sessile, totally 

 black, horny ; hymenium plane, margined ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia very minute, innumerable. 



Pycnidia rotund, closed, at length perforated, black, 

 rugulose ; stylospores long, filiform, slender, curved, 

 flowing out in a yellow gelatinous mass. 



Cenangium Laracinum — FckL, " Sys. Myco.," p. 

 270; " Grevillea," 2, p. 187. 



Exs.— Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 145. 



On bark of Larix Europazus. 



Name — Larix, the genus to which the larch belongs. 



Shrewsbury ! 



4. Tympanis ligustri. Tul. 



Gregarious or solitary, erumpent, at first obtuse, then 

 expanded into a marginate hymenium, substipitate, 

 black, glabrous, betwe3n gelatinous and horny, pale 

 within ; asci broadly cylindrical ; sporidia (?) innumer- 

 able, very minute, ovate or ovate-oblong; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender, numerous. 



Stylospores (conidia ?) diplodia-form, borne on filiform 

 sporophores, intermixed with the asci and paraphyses. 



Tympanis ligustri — Tul., " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. 

 p. 154 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2187. Tympanis saligna 

 —Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 176 (in part); B. and Br., 

 " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 584 ; Berk, « Outl.," t. 1, f. 10 ; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 197. Cenangium ligustri — Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco.," p. 268. 



Exs.— FckL, "F. Rh.," No. 767; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 

 No. 229 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 461. 



On Ligustrum vulgare. 



Name — Ligustrum, the generic name of the host- 

 plant. 



Lucknam, Wiltshire (Messrs. Berkeley and Broome). 



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