OF GREAT BRITAIN. 499 



Gbog. Distrib :... Europe. 

 Bot. Prov:— 7. 



Wales :— Nant-Gwynant ! Snowdon. (1865.) wood opposite Tanybwlch 

 Hotel, Capel Curig ! 

 Spores .022— .026 mm. long, .005 mm. broad. 



8. M. ischnobela, Nyl. glaucescent, whitish; apotliecia Mack, some- 

 what convex, rotundate or suboblong ; peritkecium black, dimidiate ; 

 hymenea 2-4 in each apothecium, contiguous, oblique, and confluent 

 at the apex ; ostiolum scarcely any ; spores 8, colourless, exces- 

 sively slender and acicular, oleoso-spuriously multiseptate ; gelatina 

 hymenea I — . 



On holly, rare. 1876. 



Sra :— Nyl. in Flora 1876. p. 238. Vemcaria myriospora, Linn. Trans. 2. ». 

 1. 145. 



Fig : — Linn. Trans. 1. c. t. 22. f. 1. 2. 3. excl, f. 4, 5. which are erroneous. 



Bot. Prov :— 26. 



Ireland : — Doughruagh Mountain ! Mr. Larbalestier. (1876. ) Dolgelley ! 



" Gonidia subcbroolepoideo-coneatenate. Thecoe cylindrical, elongate. 

 Paraphyses very slender, crowded. Spores .060 — .115 mm. long, .001 mm. 

 broad." (JVyl.) 



VII. ASTROTHELIUM, Eschw. 



Perithecia several, stellato-congregate, their ostiola converging 

 into one common central poriform epithecium. 



1. A. parmularia, (Berk.) pale-yellow, thin, membranous, 

 continuous, smoothish and shining ; apothecia enclosed in upraised 

 prominent thallodal verrucse ; perithecium entire, black ; para- 

 physes indistinct ; spores 8, fuscous, broadly lineari-oblong, 1- 

 septate, large. 



On young oaks, very rare. 1851. 



Syn : — Sphceria parmularia, Berk, in Hook. Journ. 1851. p. 19. 



Geog. Distrib : — South of France. 



Bot. Prov : — 2. 



England : — New Forest, Hants. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. (1851.) 



Spores .037 mm. loDg, .015— .016 mm. broad. 



"Quanquam multas observaverim plantas et sedulo quidem, 

 tamen non confido me semper veritatem invenisse.'' 



Linn. 



