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CALLOEIA. Fries. 



Ascophore somewhat gelatinous when moist, horny and 

 more or less pellucid when dry, small, subglobose at first, 

 soon becoming plane, sessile and fixed by a central point, 

 superficial or erumpent and becoming superficial, glabrous, 

 bright coloured ; asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored ; spores 

 1-seriate, hyaline, elongated, 1-septate ; paraphyses present. 



Calloria, Fries, Summa Veg., p. 359 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 p. G39 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, in part. 



Superficially resembling Orbilia, but distinguished by the 

 septate spores. 



Calloria fusarioides. Fries, Summa Veg. Scaud., 

 p. 359; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 331; Kehrn, Krypt.-Flora, 

 Disc., p. 463, figs. 1-3, p. 448 ; Sacc., SylL, viii. n. 2634. 



Gregarious or sometimes confluent and forming irregular 

 patches, sessile, developing beneath the epidermis, which is 

 finally ruptured, at first globose and closed, then expanding 

 and becoming slightly concave or almost plane, glabrous, 

 orange-red, subgelatinous when moist, -l mm. across; 

 excipulum delicately and minutely parenchymatous, the 

 cells becoming narrow and elongated to form the margin ; 

 asci clavate, apex rounded, base slender, usually crooked, 

 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, smooth, hyaline, nar- 

 rowly elliptic-oblong, at first continuous then 1-septate, 

 sometimes becoming 3-septate, 10-15 x 3-3- 5 /j.; paraphyses 

 numerous, hyaline, 2 //, thick, tip slightly thickened. 



Peziza fusarioides, Berk., Mag. Zool. & Bot., vol. i. p. 46, 

 t. ii. fig. 4 (1837). 



On dead nettle stems. 



Conidial form. Gregarious, irregularly circular, becoming- 

 collapsed in the centre, bright orange-red ; conidiophores 

 repeatedly forked, elongated ; conidia terminal on the 

 branchlets, cylindrical, 8-12 x 1*5 //,, continuous, hyaline. 



Cylindrocolla urticae, Bonorden, Hdbk., p. 149 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 iv. n. 3190; Brit. Fung.-Flora, iii. p. 472, fig. 25, p. 442. 



On dead nettle stems. 



Superficially resembling the ascigerous stage; subgelati- 

 nous when moist. 



Type specimen examined ; also Berk., Brit. Fung., n. 67 ; 



