42 FTJXGUS-FLOKA. 



narrowed, 8-spored ; spores needle-shaped, straight or slightly 

 curved, hyaline, multiguttulate, then indistinctly nraltisep- 

 tate, arranged in a parallel fascicle ; paraphyses filiform, up 

 to 2 jx thick, colourless. 



Hysterium pinastri ft juniper inum, Fries, Svst. Myc, ii. 

 p. 588. 



Hysterium , juniper inum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 763. 



On dry leaves of Juniperus communis and J. Sabina. 



Specimen examined in Cke., Fung. Brit., Exs. 395, and 

 Renin, Ascom., n. 128. 



GLONIOPSIS. De Xot. (figs. 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore erumpent, becoming almost superficial, elon- 

 gated or linear, sessile, dehiscing by a longitudinal, narrow 

 slit, lips obtuse ; black, carbonaceous ; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 8-spored, wall thick ; spores elongated, septate then muri- 

 form, persistently hyaline ; paraphyses slender, branched 

 above. 



Gloniopsis, De Notaris, Pir. Ister., p. 23 ; Sacc, Syll., vol. ii. 

 p. 772. 



Hysterographium, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Hyst., p. 17. 



Hysterium, of old authors. 



Agreeing in general structure with Hysterographium ; dif- 

 fering in the persistently colourless spores. 



Gloniopsis curvata. Sacc, Syll., ii. n. 5756. (figs. 

 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore bursting through the bark, then almost super- 

 ficial, prominent, gregarious, linear, straight or curved, 

 1—5 mm. long, \— § mm. broad, black, somewhat shining, 

 hard, indistinctly longitudinally striate, slit narrow, lips 

 rounded ; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, base short, 

 stout, wall thick ; spores 8, irregularly biseriate, elliptical, 

 slightly or not at all constricted at the middle, 5-7-septate 

 then muriform, persistently hyaline, smooth, 15-19 x 6-8 /jl, 

 paraphyses filiform, branched and tinged with yellow above. 



Ht/sterium elongatum f3 curvatum, Fries, Elench. Fung., ii. 

 p. 138. 



Hysterium curvatum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 759. 



