STENOCYBE, | CALICTEL. 97 
22. STENOCYBE Nyl. Bot. Not. 1854, p. 84, ea Stiz. St. Gall. 
Nat. Ges. (1876) p. 196.—Thallus macular, thin, usually obsolete, 
or probably none proper. Apothecia stipitate, scattered, black, the 
capitulum turbinato-clavate ; paraphyses slender, short ; sporal mass 
none; spores oblongo-fusiform, normally 3-septate, dark-brown or 
blackish ; hymenial gelatine pale-bluish with iodine. Spermogones 
not rightly known. 
Distinguished from Calicium by the surface of the capitulum, which is 
without any accumulated sporal mass, the pluriseptate spores, and the 
more slender aud shorter paraphyses. The absence of a mazedium 
entitles it to rank as a distinct genus, as originally proposed by Nylander, 
a position to which he has again restored it. All the plants are minute 
and inconspicuous. 
1. S. euspora Nyl. ea Cromb. 
Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 272.—Thal- 
lus scarcely any proper, or very 
diffuse and obsolete. Apothecia 
distantly scattered, very small, 
black; stipes slender; capitu- 
lum clavate; spores 3-5—7-sep- 
ee 
=I 
tate, 0,018-36 mm. long, 0,007- | ia 
11 mm. thick; paraphyses thin, rl 
crowded. — Calicium ‘eusporum | \2 
Nyl. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xv. | 
(1856) p. 549; Carroll, Journ. 
Bot. 1865, p. 287, pro parte. | 
Stenocybe major Nyl. Bot. Not. | V4 
1854, p. 84 (nomen ineptum). | i 
This has hitherto been confoun- tj 
ded by British authors (following 
Mudd) with S. érajecta. From this 
it is distinguished by the smaller 
and more scattered apothecia and 
especially by the smaller spores. 
Hab. On old stumps of holly in @ 
mountainous situations. — Distr. 
Fig. 25. 
Stenocybe euspora Nyl.—a. An apo- 
Extremely local and rare in S.W. 
Ireland.—B. M.: Mangerton, co. 
Kerry. — 
thecium, X30. 8. Section of upper 
portion of an apothecium, x30, . 
Theca and 
parebbasle x350. d. 
Spores, x 500. 
2. §.trajecta Nyl. ex Cromb. Journ. Bot. 1882, p, 272.—Thallus 
effuse, very thin, or obsolete, or none proper. Apothecia small, 
blackish ; stipes short and robust, or more elongate and slender; 
capitulum truncato-clavate, with the margin inflexed; spores 2 (4)- 
locular, or at length 3-septate, very large, 0,044-70 mm. long, 
0,014-20 mm. thick; paraphyses slender, somewhat crowded.— 
Calicium trajectum Nyl. Flora, 1865, p. 211; Carroll, Journ. Bot. 
1865, p. 287; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p 13; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 46, 
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