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the ascophore gaping widely at maturity, ami thus exposing 

 the whole of the elongated, narrow disc. 



The species are all minute, and mostly gregarious ; all are 

 saprophytes, growing on old wood, hark, and also on dry 

 leaves. 



ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA. 



A. — Spores coloured. 



Farlowia. Spores continuous. 



Mytilidion. Spores 3-7- septate; ascophore vertical, 

 mussel-shaped. 



Hysterium. Spores 3-7-septate ; ascophore not mussel- 

 shaped. 



Ostreion. Spores muriform ; ascophore vertical, oyster- 

 shaped. 



Hysterographium. Spores muriform ; ascophore not 

 oyster-shaped. 



B. — Spores hyaline. 



Actidium. Spores 1-septate ; ascophore stellately branched. 



Aulographum. Spores 1-septate; ascophore not stel- 

 late, membranaceous. 



Glonium. Spores 1-septate; ascophore not stellate, car-, 

 bonaceous. 



Hypoderma. Spores elongated, narrowly cylindrical or 

 fusiform ; ascophore membranaceous. 



Xiophium. Spores needle-shaped, nearly as long as the 

 ascus ; ascophore vertical, mussel-shaped. 



Lophodermium. Spores needle-shaped, nearly as long 

 as the ascus ; ascophore not mussel-shaped. 



Gloniopsis. Spores muriform. 



Dichaena. Asci sessile, broadest at the base; ascophores 

 densely gregarious. 



