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pseudo-6~septate, straight or curved, 25 — 45 x 4 — 7fx ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



On dead wood of Lonicera. 



Cups SOOfi broad. 



Name — Lonicera, the genus to which the honey- 

 suckle belongs ; on honeysuckle. 



Darnaway, N.B. ! 



12. Patellaria connivens. (Fries.) 



Gregarious, minute, innate ; hymenium depressed, 

 black or rufescent ; margin thin ; when dry compressed 

 and difformed ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 fusiform, 6 to 8-guttulate, at length pseudo-septate, 

 14 — 26 X 4 — 6^u ; paraphyses filiform, very slender, 

 branched from the base, abundant. 



Peziza connivens — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 151; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn./' p. 65 ; Karst " Mon. Pez.," p. 167 ; 

 Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea," x. p. 69. Patellaria 

 connivens — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 234. 



Exs.— Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," 641. 



On dead wood of willow. Karsten says alder, poplar, 

 and birch also. 



Cups about 500 to 800/x broad. The wood is tinged 

 from white to green on the spot where it grows. 



Name — Conniveo, to wink ; from the closing up of 

 the margin. 



Shrewsbury ! 



13. Patellaria subtectum (nov. sp.). Cooke. 



Singly or in clusters, appearing first as black conical 

 points emerging through the layers of bark, in which 

 condition no fructification is seen ; at length the conical 

 points expand into lens-shaped or Lecidea-lihe discs, 

 which are immarginate and black, about J of a line 

 broad or less ; substance soft and fragile ; asci broadly 

 clavate, narrowed into a slender stem ; sporidia 8, 

 oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4-guttulate, at length 1 to 3-septate, 

 20 — 24 X 5 — Qfj. ; paraphyses filiform, slender. Stylo- 

 spores in the same hymenium, elongated, cylindrical, 5 to 



