120 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



slightly bent, 20-25 x 7 p; paraphyses filiform, slender, 

 branched. 



Dermatea nectrioides, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 340. 



Pezicula nectrioides, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1301. 



On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 



Ascophores 300-500 p. broad, issuing singly or in groups 

 of two or three through an elongated slit in the epidermis, 

 which is usually black on the margin. They are at first 

 globose, bright orange-red, shining, hardly to be distin- 

 guished from a Nectria ; at a later stage the disc becomes 

 plane or convex, and pale tan colour. (Phillips.) 



Unknown to me. 



Cenangium acicolum. Eehm., Kypt. -Flora, Disc., 

 p. 228 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2314. 



Gregarious, erumpent, at first clavate or top-shaped and 

 closed then expanding; disc almost plane at maturity, 

 yellowish brown, externally the same colour, the delicate 

 margin somewhat paler ; narrowed at the base into a very 

 short, thick, stem-like base, 13 mm. broad, coriaceous, 

 becoming contorted and minutely scurfy outside when dry; 

 asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, straight, not guttulate, 12-14 X 

 3 5-4 5 p. ; paraphyses slende r, the yellow-brown tips clavate, 

 4-5 p. thick. 



Cenangium ferruginosum, var. acicolum, Fuckel, Symb. Myc. r 

 p. 269. 



On fallen leaves of Scotch fir. 



Specimen in Fckl., Fung. Ehen., n. 1123, examined. 



SCLEEODEREIS. Fries, (figs. 28-31 and 48-50, p. 91.) 



Ascophores erumpent, then superficial, often caespitose 

 and springing from a common stroma, coriaceous or horny, 

 brown or blackish, rarely bright-coloured, often more or less 

 mealy or scurfy externally; at first closed then expanding 

 and becoming patellate, margin often miuutely irregular; 

 asci 8-spored ; spores elongated, becoming 3-many-septate, 

 hyaline, rarely tinged with colour at maturity ; paraphyses 

 present. 



