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vate or cylindrical ; spores 8, fusiform, continuous, 9-11 x 2 /x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, sometimes branched in the 

 upper part, and slightly thickened at the apices. 



Peziza chrysopJiaea, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 674 ; Pers., Icon. 

 Pict., p. 17, t. 8, f. 1-2. 



Stictis chrysopJiaea, Pers., Myc. Eur., p. 335 ; Berk. & Broome, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 996, t. 16, fig. 19; Cke., Hdbk., n. 2226. 



On wych-elm. 



About J-f of a line broad. 



The above is the description and synonymy of what 

 Phillips — Brit. Disc, p. 377, under the name of Propolis 

 chrysopJiaea (Pers.) — considers to be the Peziza chrysopJiea, 

 Pers. ; Quelet, however, has described a somewhat different 

 species, which he also considers to answer to Persoon's fungus, 

 as follows. 



Ocellaria chrysophaea, Quelet, Enchirid. Fung., p. 332 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., 2602; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 135. 



Peridium orbicular, lenticular then urceolate, margin erect, 

 golden , hymenium red ; spores ellipsoid-oblong, yellowish. 



On Abies. 



Specimen accepted by Phillips as the present species, 

 examined. 



PHRAGMONAEVIA. Eehm. (figs. 11, 12, p. 91.) 



Ascophore innate, covered at first, then exposed by the 

 rupture of the epidermis, either radiate and often forming 

 four teeth, or by a simple elongated slit, excipulum forming 

 a delicate margin ; disc clear-coloured ; asci clavate, apex 

 often narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 2-seriate, narrow and elon- 

 gated, hyaline, at first continuous and guttulate, then 

 1-3-septate ; paraphyses present. 



Phragmonaevia, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 160; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. p. 674. 



Stictis, of authors. 



Distinguished at once by the 2-seriate septate spores. 



Phragmonaevia hysterioides. Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, 



Disc, p. 162; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2771. (figs. 11, 12, p. 91.) 



Gregarious, arranged more or less in lines, the long axis of 



