754 



PHACIDIACEI. 



iV.77. vo. 437* CijtisporafoUicoJa, Lib. exs. no. 64. C.pulveracea, 

 Eng. i^/.v.;). 283. 



AscopHORE. — Sub-innate, convex, black, dehiscing in 3-5 

 lacinias ; disc whitish; asci chavate ; spondia minute, sausage 

 shaped.— Fr<?s. Beiir. t 8, f. 17-21. TuL Carp. iii. p. 138. P. 

 multtvalve, Fr. S.M. ii. p. 576. Sptli. hifi^ons, Sow. t. 316. S. 

 Hederce, Nees. /. 53. 



On dead holly leaves. Scotland (^A. J.). 



2273. Phacidium simulatum. B. 4^ Br. " Mint Phacidium." 



Erumpent, cup-shaped, margin irregular ; disc linear, red- 

 brown ; sporidia obovate, binucleate. — B. 4'- ^^' Ann. N.H. no. 

 967,^. 16,/. 20. 



On dead stems of Clinopodium. Langridge, Somerset. 



Linear but cup-shaped, erumpent with an irregular margin ; disc linear, 

 red-brown J asci clavate; sporidia obovate ("0004 inch), '01 m.m. long binu- 

 cleate. 



2274. 



Fhacidiuxn rubi. Fr. " Bramble Phacidium." 



Innate, roundish, hemispherical or plane, rugulose, black ; 

 splitting into obtuse, unequal laciniee ; disc whitish ; paraphyses 

 curved at the tips; sporidia linear, rounded at the ends with 6-8 

 nuclei. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. blS. Fries, exs. no. 56. B. 4' Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 586. 



On dead bramble stems. Spring. 



Gen. 321. 



Fig. 356. 



heterosfh.s:rza, Grev. 



Perithecium globoso-depressed, 

 thin, black, at length open above, and 

 irregularly torn; disc thick, placentae- 

 form. — Berk. Otttl.p. 379. 



(Fig. 356.) 



2275. Heteirosphaeria patella. 



G?'ei'. *' Depressed Heterosphaeria." 



Erumpent, sessile, free, at first 

 more or less olivaceous, at length 

 black, even ; disc depressed, rarely 

 open, dirty white, and then crowned 

 with a toothed border ; sporidia 

 biseriate, oval, elongate, slightly 



