42 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



narrowed, 8-spored ; spores needle-shaped, straight or slightly 

 curved, hyaline, multiguttulate, then indistinctly niiiltisep- 

 tate, arranged in a parallel fascicle ; paraphyses filiform, up 

 to 2 yu, thick, colourless. 



Systerium pinastri /3 junij^erinum, Pries, Syst. Myc, ii. 

 p. 588. 



Hysterium juniperinum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 763. 



On dry leaves of Juniperus communis and J. Sahina. 



Specimen examined in Cke., Fung. Brit., Exs. 395, and 

 Eehm, Ascom., n. 128. 



GLONIOPSIS. De Not. (figs. 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore erumpent, becoming almost superficial, elon- 

 gated or linear, sessile, dehiscing by a longitudinal, narrow 

 slit, lips obtuse ; black, carbonaceous ; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 8-spored, wall thick ; spores elongated, septate then muri- 

 form, persistently hyaline ; paraphyses slender, branched 

 above. 



Gloniopsis, De Notaris, Fir. Ister., p. 23 ; Sacc, Syll., vol. ii. 

 p. 772. 



HysterograpTiium, Eehm, Krypt. -Flora, Hyst., p. 17. 



Systerium, of old authors. 



Agreeing in geneial stiucture with HysterograpMum ; dif- 

 fering in tLe persistently colourless spores. 



Gloniopsis curvata. Sacc, Syll., ii. n. 5756. (figs. 

 36-38, p. 22.) 



Ascophore bursting throiigh the bark, then almost super- 

 ficial, prominent, gregarious, linear, straight or curved, 

 1-5 mm. long, ^-| mm. broad, black, somewhat shining, 

 hard, indistinctly longitudinally striate, slit narrow, lips 

 rounded; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, base short, 

 stout, wall thick ; spores 8, irregularly biseriate, elliptical, 

 slightly or not at all constricted at the middle, 5-7-septate 

 then muriform, persistently hyaline, smooth, 16-19 x 6-8 fi, 

 paraphyses filiform, branched and tinged with yellow above. 



Hysterium elongatum j3 curvatum. Fries, Elench. Fung., ii. 

 p. 138. 



Hysterium curvatum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 759. 



