376 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



farinose, becoming spadiceous ; asci clavate ; sporiclia 8 ; 

 oblong, obtuse, slightly bent, with 2, 3, or even 4 guttre, 

 lofi long. 



Stictis versicolor, Fries, var. Strobilina — Desm., 

 " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1842, p. 52. 



Exs.— Desm., " Crypt. Fr," ed. i. No. 1316, and ed. 

 ii. No. 716. 



On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 



Cups J a line broad ; when elongated they may be lh 

 lines long. 



Desmaziere remarks that there is no danger of con- 

 founding this with P. rhodoleuca, which has a rosy- white 

 disc, is yellow within, and has didymus (uniseptate) 

 sporidia ; but the probability is that they are only condi- 

 tions of the same plant, and in the estimation of some 

 would both be regarded as not specifically distinct from 

 P. versicolor. 



Name — Strobilos, a pine-cone. 



4. Propolis versicolor". Fries. 



Immersed, suboblong, plane ; margin spurious, 

 laciniate ; hymenium at length farinaceous ; asci broadly 

 clavate ; sporidia oblong, rounded at the ends, slightly 

 curved, with 2 or more guttre, 24 — 30 x 7 — 9/z ; para- 

 physes filiform. (Plate XI. fig. 73.) 



Stictis Propolis versicolor — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 

 198 ; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2230 ; Corda, " Icon.," ii. t. 15, 

 f. 133. Propolis versicolor — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 372 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 182, c. i. ; Pat, p. 30, f. 70. 

 Cryptomyces versicolor — " Eng. Flo," v. p. 214. Propolis 

 faginea (Schrad.) — Karst, " Myco. Fenn," p. 244. 



Exs.— Fries, No. 276; Fckl, "F. Rh," 1109; Rav., 

 "Fung. Am," 315, 316; Roumg, "Fung. Gal," 1962; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 463. 



On pales, chips, sticks, etc. 



Fries names four varieties of this species, but, as no 

 regard was paid by him to the sporidia, it would be vain 

 to attempt any definition of these. 



