104 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



guttulate, then more or less distinctly 3-7-septate, hyaline, 

 21-27 x o-G /j. ; parapbyses branched, very slender, apex 

 yellowish; hypothecium thin, almost colourless. 



Peziza connivens, Fr., Syst. Myc, ii. }). 151. 



Durella connivens, Eehm, 26th. Ber. d. Jsatur. Yer. Augsb., 

 p. 9 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3244. 



On branches of oak and beech, also on wood. 



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

 (fig. 27, p. 91.) 



Gregarious, sessile, entirely blackish, somewhat hemi- 

 spherical then expanding, but the margin remaining more or 

 less incurved, glabrous, up to ^ mm. across ; excipulum con- 

 sisting of irregularly parallel, brown, septate hyphae ; asci 

 broadly clavate, usually curved, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 biseriate, narrowly cylindric-fusiform, hyaline, at first many- 

 guttulate, finally 7-septate, often very slightly curved, 

 30-42 x 4—7 /x ; paraphyses numerous, filiform, about 1 • 5 /x 

 thick, sometimes branched, tips not thickened, hyaline. 



Lecanidion lonicerae, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3267. 



On dead honeysuckle stem. 



Authentic specimen from Phillips examined. 



Patellaria atrata. Fries, Syst. Myc, ii. p. 160; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 3C6; Piehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 334, 

 figs. 1-6, p. 295. 



Usually gregarious, black, sessile, at first clavate and 

 closed, then expanding and becoming plane or slightly 

 convex, marginate, orbicular or somewhat elongated, up to' 

 lh mm. across, subcoriaceous ; excipulum consisting of 

 parallel, septate, olive-brown hyphae ; asci clavate, apex 

 rounded, 8-spored, wall thick ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 elongated and narrowly clavate, or fusiform with the widest 

 part above the middle and the apex blunt, often very 

 slightly bent, hyaline, many-guttulate, then 7-11-septate, 

 35-45 X 8-10 /a; paraphyses numerous, cylindrical, septate, 

 branched above, the tips clavate or sometimes nodulose, 

 olive-green, 4—5 //. thick, agglutinated together. 



Lichen atratus, Hedwig, Spec. Muse Frond., ii. p. 61, t. 21, 



%• A. 



Lecanidion atratum, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 3261, 



