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oblong-ovate, opening by a minute pore. Spermatia ex- 

 tremely minute, borne on slender, branched sporophores. 

 (Phil.) 



Specimen in Bab., Fung. Eur., n. 719, examined. 



Tympanis ligustri, Tul., Scl. Fung. Carp., iii. p. 154; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 353 ; Kehrn, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 271 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., n. 2406. 



Erumpent, ascophores solitary or sometimes in clusters of 

 23 ; at first closed then expanded and marginate, narrowed 

 below into a very short, stem-like base, blackish, glabrous, 

 somewhat gelatinous then horny, i-f mm. across ; hypothe- 

 cium and excipulum brownish, formed of interwoven hyphae, 

 cortex xlense, dark brown; asci cylindric-clavate, wall thick, 

 spores innumerable, continuous, subglobose, 2-5 x 2 ^, hya- 

 line but with a yellowish green tinge in the mass ; para- 

 physes slender, septate, tip brown and thickened up to 

 5/x. 



On privet. 



Specimen in Cke., Brit. Fung., exs., ed. ii., n. 461, exa- 

 mined. 



Stylospores (conidia?) diplodia-form, borne on filiform 

 sporophores, intermixed with the asci and paraphyses. 

 (Phillips.) 



Tympanis pinastri, Tul., Sel. Fung. Carp., vol. iii. 

 p. 151, tab. xix. figs. 10-12; Kehrn, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., 

 p. 272. 



Erumpent, ascophore solitary or in clusters springing from 

 a common stroma, at first closed, then becoming plane and 

 with a more or less prominent margin, black and shining, 

 horny when dry, i 1 mm. across ; asci cylindric clavate, 

 thick- walled, spores innumerable, minute, continuous, cylin- 

 drical, straight, 2-5 x 1 p-, hyaline but with a tinge of .yel- 

 lowish green in the mass ; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 thickened at the brown tip. 



Cenangium laricinum, Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 270.' 



Tympanis laricina, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 353 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 viii. n. 2418. 



Pycnidia. Subglobose, black, with an apical pore ; sper- 

 matia long and very slender, curved, escaping in a yellow, 

 gelatinous mass. 



