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oblong-ovate, opening by a minute pore. Spermatia ex- 

 tremely minute, borne on slender, branched sporopliores. 

 (Phil.) 



Specimen in Eab., Fung. Eur., n. 719, examined. 



Tympanis ligustri, Tul., Scl. Fung. Carp., iii. p. 154; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 353 ; Piehin, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 271 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., n. 2406. 



Erumpent, ascophores solitary or sometimes in clusters of 

 2-3 ; at first closed then expanded and marginate, narrowed 

 below into a very short, stem-like base, blackish, glabrous, 

 somewhat gelatinous then horny, J— | mm. across ; hypothe- 

 cium and excipulum brownish, formed of interwoven hyphae, 

 cortex dense, dark brown ; asci cylindric-clavate, wall thick, 

 spores innumerable, continuous, subglobose, 2*5 x 2 //,, hya- 

 line but w T ith a yellowish green tinge in the mass ; para- 

 physes slender, septate, tip brown and thickened up to 

 5 fx. 



On privet. 



Specimen in Ckc, Brit. Fung., exs., ed. ii., n". 461, exa- 

 mined. 



Stylospores (conidia ?) diplodia-form, borne on filiform 

 sporophores, intermixed with the asci and paraphvses. 

 (Phillips.) 



Tympanis pinastri, Tul., Sel. Fung. Carp., vol. iii. 

 p. 151, tab. xix. figs. 10-12; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, 

 p. 272. 



Erumpent, ascophore solitary or in clusters springing from 

 a common stroma, at first closed, then becoming plane and 

 with a more or less prominent margin, black and shining, 

 horny when dry, |— 1 mm. across ; asci cylindric clavate, 

 thick-walled, spores innumerable, minute, continuous, cylin- 

 drical, straight, 2-5 x 1 t 1 , hyaline but with a tinge of yel- 

 lowish green in the mass ; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 thickened at the brown tip. 



Cenangium laricinum, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 270. 



Tympanis laricina, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 353 ; Sacc, SylL, 

 viii. n. 2418. 



Pycnidia. Subglobose, black, with an apical pore ; sper- 

 matia long and very slender, curved, escaping in a yellow, 

 gelatinous mass. 



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