92 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



PATINELLA. Sacc. (figs. 32-35, p. 91.) 



Ascophore minute, sessile, scutellate or applanate, circular, 

 or irregular, rarely elongated, furnished with a parenchy- 

 matous excipuluin which forms a delicate margin ; black or 

 dark-coloured ; asci clavate, apex rounded and thick- 

 walled, 8-spored ; spores elongated, hyaline, continuous, not 

 guttulate, irregularly 2-seriate; paraphyses septate, apex 

 coloured. 



Patinella, Sacc., Grevillea, vol. iv. p. 22 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 p. 769 ; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 310. 



Patellaria, of many authors. 



The hyaline, continuous, biseriate spores and patellate 

 ascophore characterise the present genus. 



Patinella rubro-tingens. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 3182. 

 Usually densely crowded and forming long narrow 

 blackish streaks 2-3 cm. long, rarely scattered towards the 

 ends of the groups ; ascophore circular or usually irregular 

 from mutual pressure, sessile, rather fleshy, at first closed, 

 then gradually expanding, black, minutely wrinkled outside, 

 otherwise glabrous ; margin with a reddish tinge, irregular, 

 remaining slightly incurved, 1-1 '5 mm. diameter; ex- 

 cipulum compact, grumous, indistinctly pavenchymatous ; 

 asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, narrowly 



X 300 ; Fig. 32, Patinella macrospora, Mass. ; nat. size ; Fig. 33, sections 

 of same; X ; Fig. 34, structure of margin of excipulum of same ; x ; 

 Fig. 35, ascus and paraphyses of same ; highly x ; Fig. 36, Blityridium 

 caliciiforme, De Not., abcophore ; x ; Fig. 37, spore of same ; X 300 ; 

 Fig. 38, Patellea pallida, Mass., portion of excipulum; highly X ; Fig. 39, 

 ascus and paraphyses of same; X 300; Fig. 40, Crumenula ericae, 

 Phil. ; nat. size ; Fig. 41, section of same ; X ; Fig. 42. ascus and para- 

 physis of same ; highly X ; Fig. 43, spores of same ; x 300 ; Fig. 44, 

 conidia of same ; X 300 ; Fig. 45, Tympanis comperm, Fr., ; nat. size ; 

 Fig. 46, section of a group of ascophores of same, springing from a 

 stroma, and accompanied by two pycnidia, marked x ; x ; Fig. 47, 

 ascus and paraphysis of same; X 300; Fig. 48, Scleroderris ribesia, 

 Karsten ; nat. size ; Fig. 49, group of ascophores of same ; X ; Fig. 50, 

 spores of same ; x 300 ; Fig. 51, Lagerheima sphaerospora, Sacc. ; nat. 

 size ; Fig. 52, section of same ; X ; Fig. 53, ascus and paraphysis of 

 same ; highly x ; Fig. 54, spores of same ; x 300. 



