120 FUNGUS-FLOEA, 



slightly tent, 20-25 X 7 /i; paraphyses filiform, slender, 

 branched. 



Bermatea nectrioides, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 340. 



Pezicula nectrioides, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1301. 



On cones of Finns sylvestris. 



Ascophores 300-500 /a broad, issuing singly or in groups 

 of two or three through an elongated slit in the epidermis, 

 which is usually black on the margin. They are at first 

 globose, bright orange-red, shining, hardly to be distin- 

 guished from a Nectria ; at a later stage the disc becomes 

 plane or convex, and pale tan colour. (Phillips.) 



Unknown to me. 



Cenangium acicolum. Eehm., Kypt.-Flora, Disc, 

 p. 228 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2314. 



Gregarious, erumpent, at first clavate or top -shaped and 

 closed then expanding; disc almost plane at maturity, 

 yellowish brown, externally the same colour, the delicate 

 margin somewhat paler; narrowed at the base into a very 

 short, thick, stem-like base, 1-3 mm. broad, coriaceous, 

 becoming contorted and miuutely scurfy outside when dry ; 

 asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-s6riate, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, straight, not guttulate, 12-14 x 

 3 • 5-4 • 5 /x ; paraphyses slender, the yellow-brown tips clavate, 

 4-5 /x thick. 



Cenangium ferruginosum, var. acicolum, Fuckel, Symb. Myc, 

 p. 269. 



On fallen leaves of Scotch fir. 



Specimen in Fckl., Fung. Ehen., n. 1123, examined. 



SCLBEODEEEIS. Fries, (figs. 28-31 and 48-50, p. 91.) 



Ascophores erumpent, then superficial, often caespitose 

 and springing from a common stroma, coriaceous or horny, 

 brown or blackish, rarely bright-coloured, often more or less 

 mealy or scurfy externally; at first closed then expanding 

 and becoming patellate, margin often miuutely irregular; 

 asci 8-spored ; spores elongated, becoming 3-many-septate, 

 hyaline, rarely tinged with colour at maturity ; paraphyses 

 present. 



