8PH^RIAC"E1. 847 



' AscoPHORE, — Hypodermal, pnlrinifonn or conical, depressed 

 or subtruncate ; perithecia circinating, ^vith long necks ; asci 

 large, obovate-cylindrical, obtuse, 8-spored ; sporidia elliptical 

 or broadly ovate, quadrilociilar, constricted at the joints, obtuse, 

 smooth and pallid. — TuL Carp. ii. ^. 239, t. 25,/. 5-9. Cooke 

 Seem. Journ.t. 45,/. 9. FcJd. Sym. Myc.t. 6,/. 8. FcJcl.exs.no. 

 2158. Cooke exs. no. 371. SphcEria pupida, var. minor, Desni. exs. 

 (1851), no. 1764. Ann. Sc. Xat. (1852), xviii. p. 362. 



On beech. Shere. January, 1866 (Dr. E. Capron). {Fig. 391.) 



2534. Massaria Currei. Tul. " Currey's Lime Massaria." 



Pycxidia. — Mixed with the ascophores ; stylospores broadly 

 ovate, unilocular. 



AscoPHORE. — Perithecia black, acutely papillate ; sporidia 

 biseriate, dark brown, lageniform, uniseptate, with a gelatinous 

 coat. — Till. Car/), ii.y). 231. SpJiceria Tilicp, Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 xxii. t. b9,f. 104. 



On lime. 



" It 13 not uncommon, and cannot be mistaten for any other if attention 

 be paid to its fruit, and to its growing upon lime." — F.C. 



2535. Massaria holoschista. TuL " Biconic Massaria." 



Pycnidia. — Sublentiform, black, covered ; stylospores brown, 

 12-20 connate, in a stellate manner, at length ejected in tendiils. 

 Prosthemium sfellare, Heiss. Bot. Zeit. 1853, t. 3,/ 28-31. B. ^- Br. 

 Ann. X.H. no. 939, t. 15,/ 10. (See also fig. 173, ante.) 



AscoPHORE. —Perithecia greenish-black, at length collapsed, 

 surrounded by whitish flocci; sporidia biconical, mucous; septum 

 passing through the gelatine. — Tul. Carp. ii. p. 234. SphcBria 

 holoschista^ B. ^- Br. Ann. X.H. no. 977, t. 17,/. 30. 



On alder. West of England. 



Perithecia blackish- ^een, collapsed, and then looking like a Peziza sur- 

 rounded by whitish hairs. Sporidia surrounded by gelatine, biconical, uni- 

 septate, constricted at the septum, which passes completely through the 

 mucous envelope, length when the gelatine Las been absorbed COOlo-'OOlS 

 in.) -03- 04 m.m. long.— -B. d:Br. 



** Sporidia si-m])\e=Hypocopra. 



2536. Ittassaria fimeti. Fr. " Dung Massaria." 



Spermatia cylindrical, straight, hyaline, simple. 

 AscoPHORE. — Crust-like, immersed, black; perithecia oblong, 



