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blackish disc, plurilocellate within ; loculi more or less circinating, 
the walls thin and composed of greenish cells, like those. of 
Oxyacanthae Rab, 2 os. 4-5 x I wp; sporophores rod-like, 
straight, about 10 x 1 yp. 
On dead branches of Hypericum. Wes’ Kilbride, Ayrshire 
(Boyd). Sept. 
C. intermedia Sacc. Syll. iii, 264, Allesch. vi. 595. Died. 
p. 357. : 
Stromata gregarious, pustular, multilocular, the loculi arranged 
radiately or without order round a central columella, opening by 
a single black papilla (rarely two). in the centre of a very small 
cinereous disc. Spores 5-6 x 1-1-5; sporophores occasionally 
branched at the base, 20-24 x 1-5 y, or frequently even longer. 
On thin twigs of Quercus -Robur. Kew Gardens. The 
pycnidial stage of Valsa in‘ermedia Nits 
Earlswood specimens on Oak tend to show that Valsa inter- 
media Nits. is only a form of Valsa ceratophora : if so, C. intermedia 
must be wena ttl in C. ceratophora. 
Distrib. * Germany. 
C. Jasmini Cooke, in Grevill. xiv. 4. Sacc. Syll. x. 2465, 
Allesch. vi. 583. 
Stromata very loosely gregarious, somewhat conical, 
subcutaneous, small, covered by the darkened ip acemed Spores 
6 X lp, oozing forth through a small orifice in the cuti 
On thin twigs of Jasminum officinale. Kew “Cooke).: Apr. 
oa juglandina Sacc. Syll. iii. 267. Allesch. vi. 584. Died. 
ee gregarious, covered by the epidermis, which is 
occasionally cleft by the ae subcylindrical ostiole, black, 
plurilocular within, with a distinct columella; loculi circinating. 
Spores rather straight, 6-7 x 1 Be; sporophores filiform, 
10-15 X lu. 
On twigs of Juglans regia. Kew Gardens. May. 
Distrib. Germany, Italy. 
C. Kerriae Died. 1.c. p. 346. Grove, in Journ.Bot. 1922, p. 45. 
Stromata loosely gregarious, tearing the epidermis into 
lacinize, erumpent, conical, with a blackish dise pierced by one 
or two pores, irregularly pseudolocellate within; texture dark- 
olive, a little paler inwards. Spores 6-8 x 1-5-2; sporophores 
fasciculate, qpomty simple, 15-25 x ly. 
ne n dry twigs of Kerria japonica. Saltcoats, Ayrshire (Boyd). 
Distrib. Germany. 
C. Kunzei Sacc. Syll. iii. 270, Allesch. vi. 574. Died. p. 351. 
Stromata scattered, opveRey immersed between the periderm 
and the cortex, up to 2 _ broad, multilocular, the loculi 
