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part above the middle, and the apex blunt, straight or 

 slightly curved, at first continuous and 2-6-guttulate, then 

 3-5-septate, 15-21x3-4 /x; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 branched above, tips 3-4 ti across, olive-brown. 



Durella macrospora, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 281, tab. vi. 

 fig. 24. 



Durella compressa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3242. 



On dead wood, oak, &c. 



Specimen examined from Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., n. 1165; 

 and Phillips' Elv. Brit., n. 131. 



Saccardo is probably correct in considering the present 

 species to be the same as P. compressa. 



Patellaria compressa. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 364. 



Scattered or gregarious, on a pale spot, sessile, innate, 

 irregularly elliptical or roundish, with a delicate upraised 

 margin, saucer-shaped when expanded, up to 1 mm. across, 

 blackish-brown, compressed and shell-shaped when dry; 

 asci clavate, rounded above, wall thick, 8-spored; spores 

 elliptic or more or less fusiform, ends obtuse, 3-5-septate, 

 straight or slightly curved, hyaline, 18—21 X 4—5 /a; para- 

 physes forked, septate, brownish at the apex; hypothecium 

 yellowish. 



Peziza compressa, Pers., Disp. Meth. Fung., p. 34. 



Durella compressa. Tub, Sel. Fung. Carp., iii. t. 22, 

 figs. 8-14 ; Tiehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 287, figs. 1-4, 

 p. 282; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3242. 



On dead wood. 



Phillips gives the spores as 8-11 x 3*5 tt, which is smaller 

 than I have seen in the many specimens examined. 



Stylospores sometimes present at the tips of the paraphyses, 

 and resembling the ascospores in form and size. 



Patellaria connivens. Fries, Summa Yeg. Scand., 

 p. 366; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 365. (figs. 52-55, p. 12.) 



Gregarious, innate, seated on a white or greenish spot, 

 sessile, rounded or elongated, up to h mm. long, blackish- 

 red, saucer-shaped when expanded, compressed and irregular 

 when dry, excipulum thin, parenchymatous, cells small, 

 irregularly polygonal ; asci clavate, apex rounded, 8-spored, 

 elliptic-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, at first 6-8- 



