194 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



into 4-5 blunt teeth, disc dingy brown; asci cylindric- 

 clavate; spores 8, irregularly biseriate, very narrowly 

 clavate, ends obtuse, straight or very slightly curved, con- 

 tinuous, hyaline, usually with two large guttulae, 10-13 x 

 2 '5-3 //, : paraphyses cylindrical, 3 //, thick, colourless. 



Phacidium repandum, Fries, Yet. Akad. Handl., p. 108 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 395. 



Phacidium vernale, Fckl., Symb. Myc, pt. iv. b 262, tab. iv. 

 f. 27. 



Phacidium autumnale, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 262, tab. iv. f. 26. 



Spermogonia, spermatia cylindrical, almost straight, colour- 

 less, continuous, 6x1*5//.. 



Phyllachora pimctiformis, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 219, 

 Nachtr. ii. p. 52. 



On the under side of living leaves of Galium boreale, G. 

 mollugo, Asperula odorata, &c, less frequent on the stem. 



It is suspected, but not definitely ascertained, that the 

 following is the spermogonia condition of this species. 



Stroma occurring on both surfaces of the leaf, minute, 

 somewhat circular in outline, \ mm. diameter, black, with 

 many internal, minute conceptacles, furnished with slender 

 brown hyphae at the base; texture parenchymatous, sooty; 

 spermatia rod-shaped, 30-40 X 1 ' 5-2 //,, ends rather obtuse, 

 5-6-guttulate, hyaline. 



Placosphaeria stellatarum, Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 353; Sacc, 

 Syll., vol. iii. n. 1437. 



On living leaves of Galium and Sherardia. 



Pseudopeziza alismatis. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2986. 



Ascophores seated on brown discoloured spots, gregarious, 

 at first closed and covered, orbicular, then bursting through 

 the epidermis and opening with a lacerated thin margin, 

 umber-brown when moist, black when dry; disc paler, 

 plane, 100-300 //. across; asci broadly clavate, 50-60 X 10 //, ; 

 spores 8, oblong, polari-guttulate, 10-14 x 3-4//; paraphyses 

 slenderly filiform. 



Mollisia (Pseudopeziza*) alismatis, Phil. & Trail, Grev., vol. 

 xvi. p. 93. 



On both sides of fading leaves of Alisma plantago. Sept., 

 Oct. 



Not examined. 



