354 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



5. Tympanis conspersa. Fries. 



Csespitose, in round or elongated erumpent groups ; 

 cups substipitate, truncate-turbinate, black; hymenium 

 plane or slightly concave, submarginate ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia (?) innumerable, extremely minute ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, enlarged and brown at the 

 apices, adherent. 



Spermogonia usually intermixed with the above, 

 conical or obconical, black ; spermatia very minute. 

 (Plate XL fig. 67.) 



Tympanis conspersa — Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 175 ; 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 211; Grev., t. 338; Berk., " Outl," 

 p. 374 ; Tul., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," xx. (1853) t. 16, f. 15, 16 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2186; Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 226 ; Gill, " Champ.," p. 197. 



Exs.— Fries, " ScL Suec," Nos. 12 and 171 ; Berk., 

 No. 160. 



On Pyrus, Crategus, etc. 



Name — Conspersus, sprinkled ; distributed on the 

 wood. 



Bagley Wood, near Oxford ! (Mr. Baxter). 



6. Tympanis Aucuparice. (Pers.) 



Csespitose, black, sprinkled with whitish meal, at 

 first spherical, then elongated, somewhat cylindrical, 

 arising from a common stroma, closed, at length open at 

 the apex ; hymenium concave, blackish, marginate ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia innumerable, extremely minute ; para- 

 physes filiform, slender, slightly enlarged at the summits, 

 brown, adherent. 



Spermogonia resembling the early stage of the above ; 

 spermatia extremely minute, borne on slender branched 

 sterigmata. 



Bphceria Aucuparice — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 51 ; A. 

 and S., p. 25. Cenangium Aucuparice — Fries, " Stys. 

 Myco." ii. p. 181; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 212; Cooke, 

 " Handbk," No. 2191. Peziza Aucuparice — Grev, " Flo. 

 Edin," p. 426. 



