734 



ELVELLACEI. 



Gen. 307. 



STICTIS, Pers. 



Fig. 341. 



Receptacle obsolete ; hy- 

 menium even, determinate, 

 orbicular and elliptic, immersed 

 in the matrix, at first veiled. — 

 Berk. Outl.p. 375, 



{Fig. 341.) 



Hymenium persistent 



deliquescent . 

 becoming dusty 



it 

 it 



Eustictis. 



XylograpKa. 



Propolis. 



2220. Stictis (Eustictis) xadiata. Pers. " Radiated Stictis." 



Immersed, orbicular, border snow-white, somewhat lacerated, 

 pulverulent ; sporidia linear, straight, continuous. — Fr. S.M. ii. 

 />. 194. Eng. FI. Y. p. 213. Bav. exs.l,no. AS. Berk. exs. no. 70. 

 Tode. t. 7,/. 58. Nees.f. 294. Hoffm. Lich. 1. 1 J. 4. Grev. t. 227. 

 Baxt. exs. Jio. 80. Sturm, t. 61. Peziza marginata, Sow. t. 16. 



On wood, twigs, &c. [United States.] 



(Fig. 341.) 



2221. Stictis (Eustictis) pallida. Pers. " Pallid Stictis." 



Gregarious, immersed, punctiform, pallid ; mouth connivent, 

 subelliptic— i^r. ^'.J/,ii.p. 196. Etig. FI.y. p. 213. Pers. Ohs. 

 ii. /. 6,/. 7. 



On wood. Appin. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Scattered, minute, elliptic, or subrotund, two individuals sometimes grow- 

 ing close together, and having a common partition, yello'5\dsh, surrounded 

 by a narrow, spurious border of the same colour. The wood on which it 

 grows is white. — M.J.B. 



2222. Stictis (Eustictis) xnicxostoxna. Carm. " Small- 



mouthed Stictis." 



Very minute, punctiform, prominent, blackish, opening with 

 a minute, round, or subellijDtic orifice ; spores triseptate, hya- 

 line, granular; paraphyses branched. — Berk. Outl.p. 375. Stictis 

 sicrostoma, Eng. Fl. \.p.213. 



On wood. 



Scattered, at first nearly white, with a minute orifice, round which it 

 gradually assumes a darker hue, and at length under a high magnifier, ap- 

 pears, when moist, of a sub-olivaceous black. Resembling a minute Sukoeria. 

 —M.J.B. 



Sporidia (-0007 in.) -0177 m.m. long. 



