212 FUNGI. * IStictis. 



3. C. AucupdricE, Pers. (3Ioiintain-ash Cenangiwn) ; tufted 

 black clothed with dirty- white meal, cup at first closed elon- 

 gated subcylindric, at length open. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. /?. 181. 

 — Sphceria AucuparicBy Pers. Syn. p. 51 — Pez. Aucupari(Ef 

 Grev. Fl. Ed. 2). 426, 



On branches of the mountain-ash. Autumn — Spring. Craiglockhart, 

 Dr. Greville. Appin, Captain Carjnic/iael.— Tins and the two foregoing 

 species in some states resemble so closely certain SphceriUj that they 

 cannot always be safely determined without analysis, though nothing 

 can be more clear than their real nature. 



4. C. pulverdceum, A. & S. (powdered Cenangium) ; gre- 

 garious blackish covered with dense cinereous powder, cup 

 subglobose but together with the stem top-shaped. Fr. Syst, 

 Myc. V. 2. p. 181. — Pez. pidveracea, Alb. S)- Schivein, Consp, 

 t. &.f. 2 b. stem branched. P. ramosa, Ehrenherg. 



b. On wood. Appin, Captain Carmichael. 



5. C. fidigindsum, Fr. (dingy hroivn Cenangium) ; cups ir- 

 regular dingy brown crowded into broad patches, disc pale, 

 growing in a widely effused more or less ambient subiculum. 

 Fr. El. 2. p. 23. 



On branches of Sallows. Rockingham Forest, Rev. 31. J. Berkeley. 

 There is also an unnamed specimen in Sowerby's Herbarium received 

 many years since from Mr. Purton. 



6. C. ferruginosum^ Fr. (ferruginous Cenangium); gre- 

 garious coriaceo-membranaceous nearly sessile rugose sub- 

 pruinose reddish-black, orifice compressed inflexed spreading 

 -when moist, disc yellow. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 2. p. 187. Scler. 



Siiec. ! n. 292, 429. Grev. Sc. Crypt. FL t. \^7.—Pez. abietis, 

 Pers. Syn. p. 671. 3Ioug. ^ Nest. exs. n. 399. (but not the 

 specimens first published.) C. pinastri^ Klotzsch ! exs. n. 46. 



On the smaller branches of the Scotch Fir. Common in Scotland. — 

 Cups covered with ferruginous powder. 



7. C. qiiercinum, Pers. (oak-twig Cenangium) ; simple gre- 

 garious elongated flexuous at first closed, pruinose subcinereous, 

 at length open, disc broad pallid. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 189. 

 Pure. ! 31 SS. — Hysterium quercinumy Pers. Syn. p. 110. 3Ioug. 

 S; Nest. exs. n. 367. Fr. Scler. Suec. ! n. 130. Grev. FL Ed. 

 p. 366. — Sphceria collapsa, Soiv. ! t. 373. f. 3. 



On small dead or half-dead branches of the oak, still attached to the 

 tree. Extremely common.— When young it bears, as has been well 

 remarked, a close resemblance to some worm burrowing beneath the 

 smooth bark. Asci very long, clavate, exceedingly attenuated below 

 like soldering-irons. 



34. Stictis. Pers. Stictis. 

 Hymenium even, immersed. Cap more or less obliterated. 

 Asci slender, without paraphyses. Sporidia minute. — Named 

 from GTiKTog, dotted. 



