768 PHACIDIACEI. 



2315. Trochila buxi. Capron. " Box Trochila." 



Hypoiihyllous, blackish, caespitose or scattered, splitting into 

 minute unequal laciniic ; sporiJia oval, elongated. — E. Capron 

 in litt. T. crateriumy var. Buxi. Auct. 



On box leaves. 



Sporidia oval, elongated (OOOi-'OOOSin.), 01-*0125 m.m, long, much larger 

 than in T craferium ; contents, when fresh, granular. More closely allied to 

 T la\iro-cerasi.~ E. C. 



2316. Trochila CYaterium. Fr. " Ivy-leaf Craterium." 



Pycnidia. — Stylospores minute, subglobose. — Myxosporium 

 paradoxum, De Not, Micr. Ital. Dec. \\.f. 10. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 439, Glceosporium Notarisii, Mont. Ann. Sc. Nat. (]849), 

 xii.^;. 296. FcJcL exs.no. 1649. 



AscoPHORE. — Hypopbyllous, scattered, blackish, at length 

 deejjly collapsed ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia very shortly oval, 

 almost round, sometimes with a large nucleus. — Fr. S.V.S. ii.p. 

 367. Fckl. exs. no. 1113. Cooke exs. no. 180. Sph. craterium, 

 Eng. Fl. y.p. '211 . S.punctiformis, var. Q, Hederce, Grev. Fl. Ed. 

 Baxt. exs. no. 29. Ayres. exs. no. 65. 



On dead ivy leaves. Common. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Sporidia nearly globose /0003 in.) '0075 m.m. long.] {Fig. 366.) 



