154 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



Coryne atrovirens. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2645; Eehm, 

 Krypt. -Flora, Disc., p. 485. (figs. 4-7, p. 156.) 



Crowded or scattered, somewhat gelatinous but firm, at 

 first globose and closed, then expanded and more or less 

 plane, sessile or with a very short, thick stem, ^-2 mm. 

 across, dingy green, blackish and horny when dry; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, apex rounded and thick-walled, 8-spored; 

 spores irregularly biseriate above, or sometimes almost 

 1 -seriate, long and narrowly cylindrical or cylindric-fusoid, 

 ends rather blunt, straight or rarely slightly curved, 3-5- 

 septate, smooth, hyaline, 15-21 X 4-5 ft; paraphyses nume- 

 rous, very slender, branched, tips slightly thickened and 

 greenish, rather longer than the asci ; hypothecium greenish 

 yellow. 



Peziza atrovirens, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 635. 



Ombrophila atrovirens, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 325. 



Conidial stage. Minute, subgelatinous, pulvinate, dingy 

 green, conidiophores very crowded, filiform, branched, 

 bearing hyaline, continuous conidia, 1-i- x ^ p- at the tips of 

 the branches. 



On rotting wood, branches, &c., in damp places. 



Specimens examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 141, and Rehni, 

 Ascom., n. 618. 



Small, discoid, looking like the apothecia of some Lecidea, 

 distinctly gelatinous when moist. In some specimens the 

 asci are clavate, wall very thick at the apex, and entii'ely 

 filled with minute hyaline, continuous spores li x 1 /*, thus 

 agreeing with the asci in the genus Tijmpanis ; at a later 

 stage the eight spores, as described above, appear in the 

 asci containing the minute spores. This condition of things 

 is shown in the specimens in both exsiccati quoted above. In 

 other cases the minute spores appear to be absent, or their 

 presence may depend on relative age. The matter requires 

 to be worked out from living material. 



