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78 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



7. Propolis angulosa. Karst. 



Gregarious, immersed and innate in the parenchyma 

 of the bark, primarily covered, then seated on the 

 epidermis, at first tinted with a somewhat blue colour, 

 erumpent, often encircled by four obtuse triangular 

 lacinge ; angular, or rarely angular or subrotund, plane ; 

 hymenium greyish-green, mealy ; asci elongate-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elongate, curved, somewhat yellowish-green, 

 hyaline, 16 — 23 x 3 — 4^ ; paraphyses not very distinct. 



Propolis angulosa — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 244. 



On branches of Salix. 



About \ to -| of a line broad. 



Name — Angulosus, angular. 



Trefriw, North Wales ! 



Genus II. — Schmitzomia. Fries. 



Disc immersed, encircled by a dehiscent, substellate, 

 distinct, suberose, friable ring ; asci cylindrical, slender 

 elongated ; sporidia 8, filiform. (Plate XII. fig. 74.) 



The excipulum is reduced in this genus to a very 

 thin membrane, which is wholly adnate to the matrix, 

 at first closed, then open ; the mouth encircled by a 

 superficial, more or less persistent, usually white ring. 

 The asci are very long and slender, splitting at their 

 summits, allowing the still slenderer, nearly equally long, 

 filiform sporidia to escape. S. Berkdeyana is sometimes 

 superficial. 



Inhabiting dead wood, herbaceous stems, etc. 



Name — After J. Schmitz, and /uveia, a tribute of 

 respect. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Hymenium blackish . . . . . . species 1, 2 



b. Hymenium ochraceous or pallid . . . . „ 3 

 C. Hymenium testaceous or orange-yellow „ 4 

 d. Hymenium whitish or bluish-white . . „ 5,Q 



Key to the Species. 



Margin laciniate, radiating . . . . . . . . radiata. 



Margin entire, yellowish-green .. .. .. Berkeleyana. 



Margin entire . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 



