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PHACIDIACEI. 



2305. Hysterium (Lophodermium) typhinum. Fr. "Club- 

 mace Uysterium." 



Innate, oblong, covered by the bullate epidermis, at length 

 naked, black; lips slightly s\yollen, parallel; asci cylindrical; 

 sporidia filiform, hyaline. — Fr. S.M. \i.p. 590. B. ^ Br. Ann. N. 

 H. no. 589. 



On leaves of Typha latifoUa. 



Gen. 325. SPOROMEGA, Corda. 



Receptacle horny ; asci elon- 

 gated, clavate ; sporidia filiform, 

 when mature separating above, 

 and united at the base. 



(^Fig. 360.) 



2305. Sporoxnega cladophila. 



Lev. " Whortlebury Sporomega." 



Sub-innate, oblong- elliptic, at 

 first brownish, from the almost 

 adnate cuticle, at length, naked, 

 black ; lips acute, not inflexed ; 

 disc linear ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia filiform, hyaline. — Hy- 

 sterium vaccina, Carm, Eng. Fl. 

 v. /;. 295. Sporomega cladophila^ 

 Duhy Hyst. p. 48. Fckl. exs. no. 

 1967. 



Fig. S60. 



On stems of Vaccinium myrtillus. Appin. 



In its early stage of growth it appears like a browB spot, as it swells the 

 cuticle is raised up, and at length splits longitudinally, and for a long time 

 closely covers the two lobes of the perithecium. — M.J.B. (iig- 360.) 



Gen. 326. 



COLPOIYZA, Wallr. 



Fig. 361. 



Perithecia between coriaceous 

 and spongy, flexuose, elliptic or 

 linear ; base plane, adnate, at 

 first closed, then opening with a 

 longitudinal fissure; lips soon 

 divergent and open ; nucleus 

 gelatinous ; asci elongato-cla- 

 vate ; sporidia filiform, free 

 above, fixed at the base. — Duhy 

 Hyst.p.bO. {Fig. 361.) 



