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leaves ; others are saprophytes, arid occur on fading leaves, 

 dead or dying herbaceous stems, wood, &c. 



Closely allied to Mollisia, in fact to be distinguished only 

 by being truly erumpent, a primitive habit from which those 

 species at present constituting the genus Mollisia have 

 emerged. Belonidium, another closely allied genus, differs in 

 the superficial ascophore and the 3-many-septate sjJores. 

 Finally the present genus approaches Phacidium in having 

 the ascophore at first immersed in the substratum and 

 erumpent, but differs in the ascophore protruding from the 

 substratum, [and not remaining immersed at maturity. 

 Coccomyces and Coccophacidium differ in having the spores 

 arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus. 



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On leaves of Angiosperms. 



Psendopeziza trifolii. Fckl., Symb. 3Iyc, p. 290; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2970. 



Epiphyllous, sessile, gregarious in small clusters on dark 

 spots, erumpent and girt by the ruptured epidermis, soon 

 plane, dingy yellow, glabrous, about - 1 - mm. across ; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, margin somewhat irregular; asci 

 clavate, 8-spored ; spores 2-seriate or sometimes almost 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, elliptic-oblong or sometimes 

 inclined to be broadest at the apex, usually 2-guttulate, 

 10-15 X 5-6 /v, ; parapbyses hyaline, rather stout, sometimes 

 branched. 



Ascoholus trifolii, Biv. Beruk., Manip., p. 27, t. vi., fig. 5. 



Mollisia trifolii, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 199. 



On living clover leaves. 



The ascophores are situated on the under surface of the 

 leaves, and resemble the pustules of a Puecinia in appearance, 

 being surrounded by the ruptured epidermis. 



Specimens in Cooke, Fung. Brit., n. 331, and ed. ii., 

 n. 451, examined. 



Psendopeziza typhae. Mass. 

 Ascophores erumpent, sessile, scattered or gregarious, 

 subglobose and closed, soon almost plane, blackish, soft, J-J 

 mm. across, glabrous ; hypothecium, passing into a parencby- 



