374 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Hymeniuni golden-yellow . . . . . . . . Lecanora. 



Hymeniuni whitish . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Margin spurious ; disc rosy- white .. .. .. rhodoleuca. 



Margin laciniate ; disc farinaceous-white . . . . versicolor. 



[Margin laciniate; on rose -branches .. .. Busse. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



1. Propolis Lecanora. (Schum.) 



Scattered, gregarious or confluent, erumpent, sur- 

 rounded by the lacerated bark, at first closed, globose- 

 depressed, then open, patelliforni ; the true margin 

 fimbriate ; hymenium golden-yellow, becoming brown ; 

 flesh at first soft, at length firm ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, with one or two 

 large guttae, 25 X 12/x; paraphyses filiform, slightly en- 

 larged at the apices, adhering in a yellow glutine. 



Pycnidia intermixed with the above, occupying the 

 sides or summit of the same stroma, disc-shaped ; stylo- 

 spores oblong or oblong-elliptic, straight or slightly 

 curved, issuing through the narrowly perforated epider- 

 mis ; sterigmata branched, rather stout. 



Peziza Lecanora — Schm. and Kunz., exs. 174. Stictis 

 Lecanora — Fries, "Svs. Myco," ii. p. 193; and " Summa 

 Veg. Scan," p. 373 ; Wallr., " Mo. Germ./' ii. p. 443; B 

 raid Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1172; Cooke, "Handbk,' 

 No. 2227. Peziza ocellata — Pers, " Syn. Fung," p. 667 

 and " Myco. Eur," i. p. 313. Stictis ocellata — Fries, " Sys 

 Myco," ii. p. 193; "Summa Veg. Scan," p. 373; Tul 

 "Select. Fung. Carp," iii. p. 128, t. 18, f. 1-11; Gill 

 " Champ," figure only. Propolis Lecanora and P. Populi 

 -De Not, " Disc," p. 10. 



Exs. — Schm. and Kunze, No. 174 ; Desm, " Crypt. 

 Fr," ed. i. No. 869, and ed. ii. No. 69 ; Rabh, " Herb. 

 Myco.," ed. ii. No. 519; "Fung. Eur," ii. No. 457, 787; 

 Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 555; Winter, "Fungi Eur," 2641- 

 Kunz, " Fung. Sel," 366. 



On various species of Salix, and on Populus. 



Disc about J a line broad, circular or oblono^ sur- 

 rounded by the torn bark, which forms a fringe. The 

 colour is a reddi. 1 h-yellow or dark brown. 



