ELYELLACEI. 



721 



Gen, 300. SFHZNCTRZNA, Fr. 



Excipulum almost horny, naked, pierced 

 with a narrow, quite entire mouth; disc 

 at length dusted with the sporidia. — 

 Berk. Outl. p. 373. (Fig. 334.; 



2180. Sphinctrina turbinata. Fr. 



" Top- shaped Spbinctrina." 



Receptacles turbinate, sub-sessile, black, 

 shining ; disc punctiform, black, opaque ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia globose, brown. 

 — Fr. S.V.S.p.2>^Q. Spharia sphinctrina, 

 Soiu. t. 386,/. 1. Bnll. t. 4-44, /. ] . Calicium 

 turhinahtm, Pers. (lisp. Supp. 56. Fcl'I. exs. 

 no. 1116. Ach. Meth. p. 56. Linds. Pop. Lich. t. xvi./. 16-19. 

 On Pertusaria. [United States.] 



This species is inserted here, although I do not consider it a fungus, but 

 rather a lichen. {t'i'J- 334). 



2181. Sphinctrina tigillaris. B.<^Br. " Rafter Sphinctrina." 



Stem short, cylindrical ; head elliptic; sporidia oblong, uni- 

 septate.— i?. ^ Br. Ann. X.H. (1865), no. 1093. 



On an old Foli/porus, from a beam in . King's Cliffe Church, 

 and on wood. Batheaston. 



Extremely minute, looking at first like a little Stilhum. It gives oflf a few- 

 threads on the surface of the matrix. Ihe stem consists of little oblong 

 cells. Sporidia (•00015--0003 in.) -OOSo-'OOrS m.m. long. 



Fig. 334. 



Gen. 301. 



LAQUEARIA, Fr. 



Disc waxy, persistent, without 

 any hypothecium, but covered with 

 a homy, coriaceous, dimidiate, su- 

 perior, deciduous, excipulum; mouth 

 contracted. — Berk. Outl. p. 373. 



{Fig. 335.) 



Fig. 335. 

 2182. Laquearia sphaeralis. Fr. " Urn-shaped Laquearia." 



Erumpent, hemispherical, brown black, urceolate ; mouth 

 contracted, entire ; disc plane, black ; asci oblong, sessile ; 



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