GENUS 306. HYPOCKEOPSIS* Winter, Hedwigia, 1875. 



Compound ; perithecia immersed in a fleshy red stroma, covered 

 on the surface by a reddish down ; ostiola erumpent, darker j 

 asci oblongo-ventricose, subsessile, 4 to 8 spored ; sporidia elliptic, 

 simple, hyaline. Hedwigia Vol. 5, p. 123. 

 Hypocreopsis pulchra, Winter. On sheeps' dung, Bathford Hill, 

 October, 1874. 



GENUS 307. HERCOSPORA.t Fr. 

 Perithecium subcarbonaceous, cup-shaped, open above, covered 

 by the bark, and differently coloured ; papilla heterogeneous^ 

 erumpent. 



GENUS 308. PYRENOPHORA.+ Fr. 

 Nucleus slowly formed, immersed in a sclerotioid mass which 

 performs the office of a perithecium, Ostiolum at length slightly 

 prominent, Sporidia mulsetiptate. 



Pyrenophora phseocomes Fr. Eadlow, June, 1843, on Alisma 

 plantago. 



GENUS 309. GIBBERA.§ Fr. 



Perithecium between waxy and horny, at length free, radiato — 

 rimose from the centre, always closed. 

 Gibbera pulicaris Fr. On various branches, common. 

 G Saubinetii Mont. Batheaston, on twigs of elm, &c. 



GENUS 310. DICtt<ENA.|| Fr. 

 Perithecia subcarbonaceous, elliptic, closed, bursting by a longi 

 tudiual fissure. Nucleus and asci diffluent, innato-erumpent. 

 Dichsena rugosa Fr. On living barks of oak and beech. 



* Hypocreopsis, from its resemblance to Hypocrea. 



t Hercospora, from erkos, an inclosed space and sporos a seed. 



X Pyrenophora, from puren, a core or kernel, and phoreo, to bear. 



§ Gibbera, from gibber, hunch-backed. 



11 iMchsena, from dis, twice, and chaino, to crack or gape. 



