3G4 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



9. Patellaria compressa. (A. and S.) 



Scattered or crowded, minute, innate, thin, blackish, 

 when dry compressed, conchiform ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2 to 3-septate, straight or 

 curved, 8 — 11 X 3o/x ; paraphyses filiform, branched. 



Peziza comp r ressa — A. and S., p. 340 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. 

 p. 207 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2124. Durella compressa 

 —Tul., " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. t. 22, f. 8-14 ; Roumg., 

 "Fung. Gal.," 539 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 191. 



On dead wood. 



This approaches very near to Patellaria proxima, 

 B. and Br., but the sporidia are not so large. 



Name — Compressus, pressed together; having the 

 margin pressed together. 



Appin. 



10. Patellaria lecideola. (Fries.) 



Sessile, minute, somewhat horny, concave, black, 

 seated upon a cinereous spot-like crust ; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, pseudo-3-septate, 

 9 — 16 X 4 — 5fi; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza lecideola — Fries, " Obs. Myco.," i. p. 166, t. 4, 

 f. 1 ; Karst., " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 41 ; " Mon. Pez.," p. 167 ; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 64. Patellaria lecideola — Karst., 

 "Myco. Fenn.," p. 234; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2179; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 191. 



Exs.— Fries, "Scl. Suec," 157; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 

 641. 



On dead wood. Karsten says poplar and birch. 



Name — Lecidea, a genus of lichens ; like a small 

 Lecidea. 



Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 



11. Patellaria Loniceros (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, subhemispherical, then 

 partly expanded, black ; hymenium concave, fuliginous ; 

 margin incurved ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, elon- 

 gate-oblong or oblong-fusiform, 6 to 7-guttulate, becoming 



