100 FUNGIJS-FLOKA. 



near the margin ; asci narrowly clavate, apex slightly nar- 

 rowed and thickened, 8-spored ; spores elliptical or fusoid, 

 smooth, brown, 1 -septate, 10-15 X 5-7 /jl, irregularly bise- 

 riate; paraphyses filiform, septate, tips thickened, brown, 

 and agglutinated together, not longer than the asci ; hypo- 

 thecium brown. 



Patellaria Bloxami, Berk., in Herb. ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 361. 



On rotten wood. 



Type specimen, now in Herb., Kew, examined. 



Distinguished from K. lignyota by the narrower, cylindric- 

 clavate ascus, and by the two cells of the spore being of equal 

 size. The spores are sometimes almost elliptic-oblong, at 

 others widest at the central septum, which is not constricted, 

 and taj)ering to the two ends, giving a fusoid shape. 



PATELLARIA. "Wahlenb. (tigs. 52-55, p. 12.) 



Ascophore almost superficial, discoid and nearly plane at 

 maturity, blackish, somewhat coriaceous, margin not promi- 

 nent ; cortical cells olive or sooty-brown ; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, 8-spored ; spores elongated, elliptical or fusoid, hya- 

 line, 2-m any- septate; paraphyses present. 



Patellaria, AVahl., Fl. Suec, n. 988 ; emended in Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. p. 786 ; Phil., Brit, Disc, in part. 



Distinguished by the elongated, hyaline, 2-many-septate 

 spores. 



The genus has been divided into two artificial sections 

 depending on the number of septa present in the spores, but 

 it must be borne in mind that the septa do not develoj) 

 simultaneously, hence a species in which the spores are more 

 than 3-septate at maturity may only present 1 or 3 septa in 

 the immature condition. 



* Spores 3-septate wlien mature. 



Patellaria atro-vinosa. Bloxam, MS., Currey, Linn. 

 Trans., xxiv. p. 155, t. 25, fig. 31; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 369 

 (not Berk. & Bad.). 



Gregarious or crowded, ciicular or somewhat irregular, 



