78 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



yellow, |-| mm. across; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores 

 arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, needle-shaped, 

 multi-septate, hyaline, 150-175 X 2 /A; paraphyses slender, 

 hyaline. 



Lycoperdon radiatum, Linn., sp. pi., ii. p. 1645. 



Schmitzomia radiata, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 380. 



On wood, twigs, &c. 



Characterised by the broad, white, radiately split margin, 

 and the flesh-coloured or dingy orange disc. 



Specimens examined in Berk., Brit., Fung., n. 79; and 

 Eehm, ^ scorn., n. 122. 



Stictis arundinacea. Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 336; 

 Sacc., Syll., n. 2833. 



Scattered, immersed, usually orbicular, at first closed then 

 rupturing and forming a narrow, almost or quite entire, 

 snow-white, pruinose margin; disc somewhat depressed, 

 greyish or whitish, up to | mm. across; asci cylindrical, 

 8-spored; spores needle-shaped, hyaline, multi-septate, ar- 

 ranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, 125150 x 1*5 2/x; 

 paraphyses numerous, filiform, not incrassated at the apex, 

 about 1 p. thick, hyaline. 



Schmitzomia arundinacea, Phil., Brit. Di*c., p. 380. 



Stictis graminum, Desrn., Crypt. :Fr., exs., n. 1071; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc., p. 386. 



Stictis luzulae, Lib., PL Crypt. Ardu., n. 132. 



On the sheaths of various grasses and sedges. 



Authentic specimen from Persoon examined ; also specimen 

 in Desm., Cry pt. - France, exs., n. 1071; and Libert, Plant. 

 Cr. Ard. n. 1 32. 



Var. junci. Karat., Myc. Fenn., i. p. 238 ; Phil., Grev., 

 vol. xviii. p. 84. 



Scattered, covered at first, then erumpent and somewhat 

 prominent, cup-shaped, with an almost entire, snow-white, 

 minutely mealy margin; disc pale orange, or rosy, up to 

 ^ mm. across ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores needle- 

 shaped, arranged in a parallel fascicle in. the ascus, 

 hyaline, multi-septate 110-130 x 1-1*5 /x; paraphyses 

 numerous, filiform, hyaline. 



On culms of Juncus effusm and J. conglotneratus. 



Specimen in Karst., Fung. Fenn., n. 931, examined. 



