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"Spores .0015 to .002 in. long, by .0005 in. broad." (Mudd.) "Spores 

 .006— .011 mm. long. .0025—35 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .008 mm. long. .003 

 mm. broad. 



C. Spores 3-septate, 



17. C. septatum, (Leight.) obsolete; apothecia brownish-black, 

 stipes short, stout and smooth, capitulum clavato-pyriform, truncate, 

 incurved at the margin ; disk depressed, dark brown ; spores 8, 

 very large, elliptical, 3-septate, umber-coloured, cells granular. 



Parasitic on thallus of Thelotrema lepadinum and on holly. 

 1856. 



Stn : — Sphmctrina septata, Leight. in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. 1857. p. 132. 

 G. easporum, Nyl, Syn. 160. Mudd Man. 256. C. trajectum, Nyl. 



Fig :— Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. 1857. t. 8. f. 20. 24. Nyl. Syn. t. 5. f. 28. 



Exs :— Zw. 21. Leight. 228. Arn. 152. Mudd 242. Anziltal. S. 47. Kabh. 757. 



Geog. Disthib:— Bavaria, France. 



Bot. Pkov :— 2.. .10.. .19.. .36. 



England : — Ingleby Park, Brantsdale, Farndale, Bousgale Gill, Hoggarts 

 Wood, Cleveland, Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. (1859). New Forest, Rev. J. M. 

 CromMe. 



Ibeland :— Near Killarney and Old Deer Park, Castlemartyr, co. Cork ; 

 Glenbower, Killeagh. Mr. Carroll. Lough Inagh ! Galway. Mr. Lwrbalestier. 



"Spores .008 to .012 in. long, by. 00325 to .004 in. broad." (Mudd.) "Spores 

 .018—36 mm. long, .007— .011 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .044—052 mm. 

 long, .018 -.019 mm. broad. 



All the authentic specimens of C. trajectum, Nyl. which I have received from 

 Mr. Crombie and Mr, Larbalastier, are precisely identical with my C. septatum. 



18. C. byssacewm, Fr. obsolete ; apothecia minute, slender, dis- 

 persed ; spores nigrescent, oblongo-fusiform, simple or ultimately 

 1 — 3-septate. 



On dead alder twigs and sloe, rare. 



Stn :— Fr. L. E. 309. Nyl. Syn. 160.*Crombie in Journ. Bot. n. ». 2.133. 



Fig:— Nyl.„Syn. t. 5. f. 27. 



Exs :— Fellm. 19. Fries Scand. 48. Anzi Langob. 264. 



Geog. Distrib : — Scandinavia, East Lapland, Sweden, Lombardy, Bavaria. 



Bot. Pkov :— 5...7...15. 



England : — Hay Park, Herefordshire ! 



Scotland : — Banks of the Garry, Blair A thole. Rev. J. M. CromMe. (1873). 



Wales : — Tan-y-bwlch Wood, Capel Curig ! Mr. W. Phillips. Dolgelley ! 



"Spores .015—23 mm. long, .005—7 mm. broad." (Nyl.) 



III. CONIOCYBE. Ach. Nyl. 



Thallus leprose or powdery, effuse or evanescent. Apothecia 

 yellow or pale (not black), stipitate, excipulum very open. Spores 

 sphEerical, colourless or flavescent, forming the globoso-pulverulent 

 capitulum. 



1. O. furfuracea, Ach. sulphureous or sulphureo-virescent, apo- 

 thecia sulphureo-suffused, or with flavovirescent, naked, elongate 

 stipites, sporal mass yellow or pale umber ; spores colourless or pale 

 fuscescent, sphserical, minute. 



On roots of trees and sandy ground, not common. 1805. 



g M : _c». fwrfwacta, Ach. in V. Ak. H. 1816, p. 288. Mudd Man. 262. Nyl. 



^io'f-E. Bot. 1539. Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1857, t. 8, f. 14. Nyl. Syn. t. 5,-f. 



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Exs :— Schaer. 14. M. &. N. 1238. Leight. 225. Anzi Ital. S. 35, Hepp 758. 



Geog. Distbib : — Europe, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Lapland, N. 

 America. 



