CALICIUM] CALICIACER 19 
11. C. retinens Nyl. in Flora li. p. 161 (1868).—Thallus 
effuse, then finely powdery, whitish. Apothecia minute, sessile, 
black ; sporal mass indistinct ; spores oblong or ohlong-cylindrical, 
l-septate, 8-11 » long, 2°5-3°5 » thick ; hypothecium brownish- 
red.—Leight. in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, i. p. 482 (1868) 
& Lich. Fl. p. 45; ed. 3, p. 44; Cromb. in Grevillea xv. p. 14. 
Specimen not seen. 
Differs from other species of Caliciwm in the sessile apothecia and 
from species of Cypheliwm in the absence of a thalline margin to the 
fruits. It has been collected only once. 
Hab. On the trunk of an old oak, Jersey (the only locality). 
5. STENOCYBE Nyl. in Bot. Not. 1854, p. 84 (nomen) ; 
Koerb. Syst. Lich. Germ. p. 306 (1855). (Pl. 5.) 
Thallus occurring in spots (macular), thin, often obsolete or 
none proper. Apothecia scattered, black, stalked, the capitulum 
top-shaped or clavate ; paraphyses slender, thread-like, colourless ; 
spores ellipsoid or fusiform, becoming 3- (or more-) septate, 
colourless, then brown, not massed in a mazedium. 
The scanty or obsolete thallus and the absence of a mazedium 
ferm of fruit render the position of the genus somewhat uncertain, 
and might justify its transference to the Class Funer. Owing, how- 
ever, to its close resemblance to the other Caliciacee, it has been 
included here. The species are all somewhat inconspicuous. 
1. S. major Nyl. in Bot. Not. 1854, p. 84; Koerb. Syst. Lich. 
Germ. p. 306 (1855).—Thallus scarcely any proper or very diffuse 
or obsolete. Apothecia sparsely scattered, very small; stalk 
slender ; capitulum clavate; spores 3-septate (5—7-septate fide 
Crombie), 18-36 p. long, 7-11 » thick.—S. euspora Nyl. ex Cromb. 
in Journ. Bot. xx. p. 272 (1882) & Monogr. i. p. 97, fig. 25. 
Calicium eusporum Nyl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xv. p. 549 (1856) ; 
Carroll in Journ. Bot. iii. p. 287 (1865) pro parte. 
Has been confused with the following species, S. septuta, which 
has very large spores. The specimens in the herbarium of the British 
Museum are too scanty to admit of examination. 
Hab. On old stumps of holly in upland situations.—B. M. 
Mangerton, Kerry. 
2. 8. septata Rehm in Rabenhorst’s Krypt.-Fl. i. 3, p. 414 
(1891).—Thallus effuse, and very thin or obsolete, or none 
proper. Apothecia small; stalk short and stoutish or slender 
and more elongate ; capitulum elavate-truncate with the margin 
of the disc inflexed ; paraphyses slender, crowded, spores ellipsoid, 
3-septate, umber -brown, large, 44-70 p long, 14-20 yp thick. 
S. eusporum Mudd Man. p, 256, t. 4, fig. 103 (1861) (non Nyl.). 
S. trajecta Nyl. ex Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xx. p. 272 (1882) & 
Monogr. i. p. 97. Sphinctrina septata Leight. in Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ser. 2, xix. p. 132, t. 8, figs. 20-4 (1857). Calicium tra- 
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