736 ELVELLACEI. 



2228. Stictis (Xylographa) parallela. Fr. " Parallel 



Stictis." 



Emmpciit, stricTform, at first closed, then open; disc reddish- 

 brown, obliterating the margin, black when dry ; sj^oridia ovate- 

 clavate ; hyaline, simple. — Fr. S.M. W.p. 197. Eng. Fl. v. p. 213. 

 Xulograplia parallela, Fold. Sijm. Myc. p. 252. 



On dead fir wood. [Low. Carolina.] 



The habit is very much that of a Hysterium. 



2229. Stictis (Xylographa) longa. Fr. " Long Stictis." 



Scattered, immersed, surromided by the prominent wood, very 

 long, attenuated at either end, open throughout its length. — Fr. 

 Ind. Alpli. p. 105. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 213. 



On wood. 



Very long, about 1| line, black, livid within, half immersed in the wood, 

 sometimes 2 or 3 specimens are confluent. — Pers. 



Dr. Capron has found at Shere a Stictis allied to S. parallela and this 

 species, with the habit of the former; the paraphyses are branched above, 

 and the sporidia are long-elliptic, straight or curved, triseptate, 'OOOS-'OCOB 

 in. long. 



2230. Stictis (Propolis) versicolor. Fr. "Many-coloured 



Stictis." 



Immersed, sub-oblong, plane ; margin spurious, laciniated ; 

 disc at length farinaceous ; asci large ; sporidia rather large, 

 oblong, with two or more nuclei ; paraphyses few, slender. — 

 Fr. S.M. ii.^?. 198. Eav. exs. ii, 7io. 53. Fr. exs. no. 276. Fckl. exs. 

 no. 1109. Cryptomyces versicolor, Eng. Fl. y.p. 214. 



var. a. alba. Disc white, at length blackish. — A.^'S.t.d, 

 /.7. 



var. c. viridis. Disc verdigris-green, pulveraceous. — Fr. 

 S.M.n.p. 198. 



On pales, sticks, &c. [United States.] 



The hymenium resembles a small portion of a transverse slice of a cocoa- 

 nut, which has been exposed for a short time to the air. — M.J.B. 



2231. Stictis (Propolis) phacidioides. Fr. " Arbutus-leaf 



Stictis." 



Hypophyllous, erumpent, breaking up the epidermis into five 

 equal, acute teeth; disc convex, milk-white, pruinose. — Fr. S.M. 

 ii.;?. 198. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 162. 



On dead leaves of Arbutus uva ursi. Lubcroy. Sutherland- 

 shire. 



