Records of Fungi Imperfecti. 251 
at Tanworth-in-Arden. Its saucer-shaped form gives it very 
much the appearance of a Discomycete, but the disc is sur- 
mounted by a grey mucilaginous column or dome consisting of 
innumerable conidia which are washed off by rain and lie 
around as a grey mucus. The excipulum is composed of pure 
white hairs arranged parallel to one another, some slightly 
radiating outwards; when shut up in a very moist atmosphere 
the hairs stand out almost like those of a Dasyscypha. The 
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Fig. 2. Patellina caesia. (a) Pycnidium with dome of spores. x 15. 
(6) Hymenial surface. x 1000. (c) Spores. x 2400. 
interior of the saucer is lined with a grey hymenial surface, 
composed of fascicles of branched conidiophores each producing 
at its apex a long chain of hyaline cylindrical spores, obliquely 
truncate at both ends, and measuring Io x I°5p. 
The fungus evidently belongs to the Excipulaceae division 
of the Sphaeropsideae, and it is highly probable that it is the 
conidial stage of some Discomycete. 
PATELLINA DIAPHANA N.sp.* 
This fungus was found growing on a dead root of poplar at 
Tanworth-in-Arden. It has the same form as P. caesia and is 
* Patellina diaphana n.sp. 
P. caesiae simillima, sed glabra et tota alba. Conidiis similibus, non longe 
catenatis, 5-6-5 x I-1:5u hyphis longioribus suffultis. 
Hab. in radicibus Popul, Tanworth-in-Arden. Status conidiophorus Disco- 
mycetis, 
