350 BEITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



8, linear-clavate, obtuse at one end, acute at the other, at 

 length 3 to 5-septate, 20 — 38 x 3*5 — 4*5ju; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender. 



Pycnidia separate or united, sessile, nearly globose, 

 glabrous, becoming fulvous, when dry cinereous-black, 

 rugose ; stylospores nearly elliptic or oblong-ovate, 

 straight, with two large nuclei, colourless, 7 — 11 X 3'5 — 

 4>fji ; sterigmata subulate, simple, about 2/z long. 



Peziza Ribesia — Pers., " Tent. Disp. Meth.," p. 35 

 and " Syn. Fung.," p. 672 ; A. and S., p. 344. Cenangium 

 Ribis— Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 179; "Elench," ii. p. 21 

 " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 364 ; Tub, " Select. Fung. Carp.,' 

 iii. p. 163, t. 19, f. 1-9 ; Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 267; B 

 and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 585 ; Cooke, " Handbk.,' 

 No. 2188. Tympanis Ribis— Wallr., " Crypt. Flo.," ii. p 

 431. Scleroderris ribesia — Karst., "Myco. Fenn," p. 215 



Pycnidia : Sphceria Ribesia — Link., " Hand.," iii. p 

 376. Fuckelia Ribis — Bon., "Diss. Myco.," iv. p. 135. 



Exs. — Schm., exs. No. 75 ; Desm., " Crypt. Fr," ed. i 

 2013, ed. ii. 1613 ; Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," 929 ; Klotzsch. 

 345; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 727; Sommf., 189; Rehm 

 " Asco," 422. 



On currant twigs. 



Name — Robes, the genus to which the currant belongs. 



Thame (Dr. Ayres). 



9. Cenangium Rubi. (Fries.) 



Innato-erumpent, scattered or crespitose, somewhat 

 horny, smooth, nearly plane, black ; hymenium becoming 

 paler ; margin erect or incurved ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 8, cylindraceo-clavate, 7 — 8 x o/u ; paraphyses filiform. 



Trochila Rubi — De Not., "Disc," p. 15. Excipula 

 Rubi— Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 190; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 

 296; Grev, t. 334; Fckl, "Symb. Myco," p. 400. 

 Cenangium Rubi — Berk, " Outl," p. 374; "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist," No. 1924; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2194. Mol- 

 lisia atrata, var. Rubi — Karst, "Myco. Fenn," p. 202. 

 Pyrenopeziza Rubi — Rehm, " Asco.," No. 416 ; Sacc, 

 " Mich," i. p. 423. 



