80 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



spores long and slender, lij'aline or only slightly tinged with 

 yellow, continuous or septate, arranged in a parallel fascicle 

 in the ascus ; paraphyses branched above. 



Nemacyclus, Fuckel, Symb. Myc, Append, ii. p. 49; Saoc, 

 SylL, viii. p. 701. 



Stictis, Pr&polis, and Schmitzomia, of authors. 



Allied to Stictis, but distinguished by the elongated 

 splitting of the epidermis into two lips, and the rudimentary 

 proper margin. 



Nemacyclus niveus. Saoc, Consp. Disc, p. 12 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2878; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, 

 p. 173, figs. 1-5, 125. (figs. 27-30, p. 12.) 



Scattered, immersed, erumpent; covered at first by the 

 whitened epidermis, which splits longitudinally and forms 

 two spurious lips tbat soon disappear ; disc pallid, elliptical 

 or elliptic-oblong, up to ^ mm. long ; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 apex rather narrowed, 8-spored; spores long and narrow, 

 worm-shaped, both ends rather blunt, continuous, usually 

 4-guttuIate, slightly curved, hyaline 76-85 X 3 /i, arranged 

 in a parallel, slightly curved fascicle in the ascus ; paraphyses 

 very slender, slightly longer than the asci, septate, branched 

 and tinged yellow at the tips. 



Stictis nivea, Pers., Myc. Eur., iii. p. 339. 



Schmitzomia nivea, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 381. 



Specimen named by Persoon examined. 



On fallen leaves of various conifers. 



Conidial phase. Discs superficial scattered, soft when 

 moist, resembling the ascophores in form and colour ; horny 

 and brownish when dry ; conidia filiform, generally nearly 

 straight, ends pointed, continuous, hyaline, 60 x "5-1 yn. 



PKOPOLIS. Fries, (figs. 52-56, p. 22.) 



Asoophore immersed in the matrix, closed at first then 

 opening, the rudimentary excipulum not forming a distinct 

 margin; disc _ roundish or elliptical, almost plane, light- 

 coloured; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores elongated, ends 

 obtuse, hyaline, continuous, 2-seriate ; paraphyses present, 

 septate, tips usually branched. 



