76G 



PHACIDIACEI. 



AsTERixA Babtxgtonit, Bcrk. is claimed bj lichcnologists 

 nncler tlie name" of Strigula Bahingtonii. It is at the best a very 

 doubtful fungus. 



Gen. 328. 



ACTZDIUM, Fr. 



Perithecia free, carbonaceous, black, 

 fragile, stellate, opening from the 

 centre in radiating fissures ; asci 

 clavate, evanescent ; paraphyses none. 

 — Fr. 01 s. i. p. 190. Bub?/ Hyst. p. 

 43. {Fig. 363.) 



Fig. 363. 



2310. Actidium hysterioides. F7\ " Stellate Actidium." 



Perithecia stellate, gregarious, punctiform, black, even, at 

 first rounded, then 4-6 gonate, radiato-stellate, somewhat closed ; 

 asci clavate, sporidia cylindrical, straight. — Fr. S.M. ii.p. 596. 

 Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiv.;?. 155. 



On chips of wood under fir trees. Weybridge. May. 



(Fig.zm.)  



Gen. 329. LOFKIUM, Fr. 



Fig. 361. 



Perithecia stipitate, wedge-shaped, 

 opening with a narrow, longitudinal 

 fissure ; asci elongated. — Berk. Outl. 

 p. mi. {Fig.m4..) 



2311. Iiophium elatum. Grev. " Elongated Lophium." 



Stipitate, compressed, black, transversely striate, dilated 

 gradually upwards into an elongated wedge-shaped perithecium ; 

 asci cylindrical; sporidia filiform, multiseptate. — Grev. t. 177,/. 

 2. Fr. El. ii. p. 113. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 281. 



On fir wood. Rare. Appin. 



2312. Lophium mytilinum. Fr. *' Shell Lophium." 



Shortly pedicellate, much dilated upwards, transversely striate, 

 black, shining ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia filiform, multiseptate. 



