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sibus apice curvatis. This species forms a dense mass of 
blackish-red cups occupying the cracks in the wood of fallen 
branches of oak, and staining it red around the spot. The 
sporidia are narrow-elliptic and contain three or four globular 
masses of endochrome, which probably form septa at a later 
period. The sporidia are about 0,0005 inch long. The 
paraphyses are strongly curved at the tip and project slightly 
above the clavate asci. 
P compressa 4. and S. Batheaston, on dead wood. 
P— flexella Fr. On dead wood, Batheaston. 
P. lignyota Fr. On dead wood, Batheaston, not uncommon. 
P——— lecideola Fr. On dead wood, Batheaston, March, 1873. 
GENUS 267. TYMPANIS.* Tode. 
Receptacle margined, cyathiform, horny; hymeninm at. first 
veiled, then breaking up. 
T conspersa /r, On apple, Batheaston, February, 1861. 
alt fraxini Schum. Leigh Woods. C. Bucknall, February, 
1880, Le. iii, 9. 
T saligna Tode. Bathford, on Privet, November, 1875; 
Ford, Wilts, February, 1850. 
GENUS 268. CENANGIUM.t 7. 
Receptacle coriaceous, closed at first, then open, marginate, 
covered with a thick cuticle ; hymenium persistent. 
Cc Ribis #r. Langridge, Somerset, April, 1872. 
C pulveraceum Fr. Batheaston, March, 1864, on Prunus 
lauro-cerasus. 
C fuliginosum Fr. St. Catherine’s, April, 1865. 
CcC— ferruginosum #r. On poles, Bathford Hill, Jan., 1865. 
C quercinum /r. Bushton, Wilts, January, 1853. 
* From tumpanon, a drum. 
+ From kenos empty, and aggeion a vessel. 
