TYMPANIS. 355 



Exs. — Moug. and Nest., No. 789. 

 On dead branches of mountain ash. 

 Name — Aucuparia, the specific name of Pynis 

 aucuparia, on which it grows. 

 Craiglockhart (Dr. Greville). 



7. Tympanis Fraxini. (Schwz.) 



Csespitose, in elongated erumpent groups ; cups sub- 

 sessile, turbinate-truncate, shining, black ; hymenium 

 plane, rugose, marginate; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia(?) 

 innumerable, extremely minute ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. 



Peziza Fraxini — Schwz., " Synop.," No. 1262. Tym- 

 panis Fraxini — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 174 ; " Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 210 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2185. Cenan- 

 gium Fraxini — Tul., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, p. 140. 



Exs.— Libert, No. 1029 ; Roumg., " Fung. Gal.," 1272. 



On branches of ash. Winter and spring. 



Name — Fraxinus, the generic name of the host- 

 plant. 



Appin (Capt. Carmichael). 



8. Tympanis alnea. (Pers.) 



Csespitose, bursting through the bark in rounded 

 groups, shortly stipitate, brownish -black, somewhat 

 horny ; hymenium plane or slightly concave, sub- 

 marginate ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia (?) in- 

 numerable, extremely minute ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender, adherent, brown at the summits. 



Spermogonia intermixed with the above, subcorneal 

 or oblong-ovate, opening by a minute pore. Spermatia 

 extremely minute, born on slender branched sporo- 

 phores. 



Peziza alnea — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 673 ; " Myco 

 Eur.," p. 325. Tympanis alnea — Fries, " Sys. Myco. " ii. 

 p. 174; "Elench.," p. 18; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 210; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2184 (in part.) Cenangium alneum — 

 Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 271 (?). 



