PROPOLIS. 81 



Propolis, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 372; Eehm, 

 Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 148 ; Sacc., Syll., viii., p. 648 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc., p. 373 (in part). 



Somewhat superficially resembling Stictis and Nemacyclus ; 

 differing from both in the 2-seriate spores. 



Propolis faginea. Karsten, Myc. Fenn., i. p. 244; 

 Eehm., Krypt.-Flor., Disc., p. 149; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2662. 

 (figs. 52-56, p. 22.) 



Mostly gregarious, immersed, rounded or more frequently 

 oblong, straight or somewhat curved, with a spurious torn 

 margin, disc mostly milk-whito, sometimes with a tinge of 

 red, blue, or yellow, finally brownish and farinose, 1-4 mm. 

 long ; asci broadly clavate, apex rounded, 8-spored ; spores 

 cylindrical, ends obtuse, slightly curved, with 2 or more 

 guttulae, smooth, hyaline, continuous, 21-30 x 7-9 p. ; 

 paraphyses filiform, septate, about 2' 5 /A thick, branched 

 above and tinged yellowish. 



Propolis versico'lor, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 372; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 376, pi. ix. fig. 73 (paraphyses un- 

 branched. 



Propolis rhodoleuca, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 375. 



Propolis rosae, Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 254; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc., p. 377. 



On wood, branches, chips, &c. 



Specimens examined from Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., n. 1276 

 and 1109; Cke., Fung. Brit., ed. ii., n. 463. 



Propolis rhodoleuca. Fries, Snmma Veg. Scand., 

 p. 372; Eehm, Krypt.-Flor., Disc., p. 151. 



Scattered or gregarious, variable in form, roundish, 

 elliptical, or angular, up to 2| mm. long; disc plane, whitish, 

 tinged with red ; becoming slightly pruinose ; asci clavate, 

 8-spored ; spores elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, mostly straight, 

 smooth, hyaline, with 1 or more guttulae, 10-15 x 5-6 //. ; 

 paraphyses very slender, septate, branched above and 

 yellowish. 



Stictis strobilina, Desrnaz., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1842, p. 52. 



Propolis rhodoleuca, var. stroUlina, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 375. 



On scales of the cones of Scotch fir. 



Closely allied to P. faginea, from which it is distinguished 

 more especially by growing on cones. 



