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Patellaria 'pallida — Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 1831; " Grevillea," vii. p. 8. 



On smooth bark ! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 



(b) Hyaline, septate. 

 7. Patellaria proxima. B. and Br. 



Orbicular, shield-like, depressed, somewhat immersed, 

 black ; hymenium same colour or brown-black ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse at the ends, slightly 

 curved, 4 to 5-septate, 17 — 25 x 5 — 6/z; paraphyses free, 

 filiform, slender, branched. 



Patellaria proxima — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 965, t. 16, f. 18; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2170. P. 

 parvula — Cooke, " Handbk.," 2178. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' No. 660; Phil., " Elv. 

 Brit.," No. 147. 



On dead oak. 



" Closely resembling P. atrata, but differing materi- 

 ally in the fruit " (B. and Br.). 



Name — Proximws, nearest, next ; from its approach- 

 ing another species. 



Barking ! (Berkeley and Broome). Shrewsbury ! 



8. Patellaria Hyperici. Phil. 



Gregarious, very minute, innate-sessile, applanate, 

 immarginate, glabrous, blackish-brown ; asci broadly 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong-elliptic, triseptate, 

 ] 7 — 20 x 5 — 8^ ; paraphyses filiform. 



Patellaria Hyperici — Phil, in " Grevillea," x. p. 69. 



On dead stems of Hypericum. 



Cups 100 to 300/i broad, at first innate, then 

 emerging. The sporidia of this species germinate freely 

 within the ascus, thrusting the germ-tubes through the 

 walls of the ascus ; the free sporidia often present a 

 germ-tube twice their length while yet in the hymenium. 



Name — Hypericum, a genus of Hypericacea ; growing 

 on Hypericum. 



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