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90 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Phacidium Vaccinii — Fries, "Sys. Mvco.," ii. p. 575; 

 Berk., " Eng. Flo./' v. p. 292 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2264 ; 

 Fckl., " Syinb. Myco," p. 261 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 170. 

 Xyloma erumpens — Fries, " Obs.," i. p. 202. 



Exs.— Fries, " Scl. Suec," 289 ; Fckl., " F. Eh.," 1029. 



On leaves of Vaccinium Vitis Idcea. 



Name — Vaccinium, the generic name of the plant on 

 which it grows. 

 Near Berwick (Dr. Johnston). Stiperstones, Salop ! 



5. Pkacidium simulatum. B. and Br. 



Erumpent, linear, cup-shaped, margin irregular ; 

 hymenium linear, red-brown ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, 

 sporidia 8, obovate, 2-guttulate, 10 X 45^; paraphyses 

 filiform, enlarged at the apices. 



Phacidium simulatum — B. and Br., in "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 967, t. 16, f. 20 ; Cooke, " Handbk./'No. 2273. 



On dead stems of Clinopodium. 



Name — Simulo, to counterfeit ; resembling another. 



Langridge, Somerset ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



6. Phacidium Ilicis. Lib. 



Subinnate, convex, black, dehiscing into 3 to 5 laciniae, 

 hymenium whitish ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly 

 elliptic, 2-guttulate, 10 x S'5/x ; paraphyses filiform, stout. 



Stylospores : stroma containing 3 to 5 cells, orbicular, 

 plane, black, shining, penetrating the matrix, splitting 

 into 3 to 5 lacinise; stylospores cylindrical, straight, 

 13 X 2u. 



Phacidium Ricis — Lib., Exs. No. 64; Fresen., "Beitr.," 

 t. 8, f. 17-21 ; Tul., " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. p. 138, t. 15, 

 f. 1-8; Cooke, "Handbk.," 2272 ; Gill., "Champ.," p. 166. 

 Phacidium multivalve — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 576 ; 

 Sphceria bifrons — Sow., t. 316. 



Stylosporous stage : Ceuthospora phacidioidcs — Grev., 

 t. 253 ; Berk, " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 283. Cytisporafoliicola 

 — Lib., exs. No. 64. 



Exs. — Moug. and Nest., 560 ; Desm., No. 1626 ; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 450. 



