42 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



narrowed, 8-spored ; spores needle-shaped, straight or slightly 

 curved, hyaline, multiguttulate, then indistinctly multisep- 

 tate, arranged in a parallel fascicle ; paraphyses filiform, up 

 to 2 p, thick, colourless. 



Hysterium pindstri (3 juniperinum, Fries, Syst. Myc., ii. 

 p. 588. 



Hysterium juniperinum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 763. 



On dry leaves of Juniperus communis and /. Sabina- 



Specimen examined in Cke., Fung. Brit., Exs. 395, and 

 Behm, Ascom., n. 128. 



GLONIOPSIS. De Not. (figs. 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore erumpent, becoming almost superficial, elon- 

 gated or linear, sessile, dehiscing by a longitudinal, narrow 

 slit, lips obtuse ; black, carbonaceous ; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 8-spored, wall thick ; spores elongated, septate then muri- 

 form, persistently hyaline ; paraphyses slender, branched 

 above. 



Gloniopsis, De Notaris, Pir. later., p. 23 ; Sacc., Syll., vol. ii. 

 p. 772. 



Hysterographium, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Hyst., p. 17. 



Hysterium, of old authors. 



Agreeing in general structure with Hysterographium ; dif- 

 fering in the persistently colourless spores. 



Gloniopsis curvata. Sacc., Syll., ii. n. 5756. (figs. 

 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore bursting through the bark, then almost super- 

 ficial, prominent, gregarious, linear, straight or curved, 

 15 mm. long, | | mm. broad, black, somewhat shining, 

 hard, indistinctly longitudinally striate, slit narrow, lips 

 rounded; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, base short, 

 stout, wall thick ; spores 8, irregularly biseriate, elliptical, 

 slightly or not at all constricted at the middle, 5 7-septate 

 then muriform, persistently hyaline, smooth, 1519 x 6-8 p., 

 paraphyses filiform, branched and tinged with yellow above. 



Hi/sterium elongatum ft curvatum, Fries, Elench. Fung., ii. 

 p. 138. 



Hysterium curvatum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 759. 



