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then expanding, up to I'O mm. across; excipulum composed 

 internally of interwoven hyphae, which towards the 

 periphery tecome parenchymatous and grouped in irregular 

 cell-groups forming the scurfy exterior, substance brown ; 

 disc dark brown, externally paler, ground-coffee colour, 

 scurfy ; asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, 

 sometimes irregularly 2-seriate above, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, smooth, 1-septate, finally brown, 10-12 x 4-5 /i. ; 

 paraphyses numerous, slender, tips slightly thickened, 

 brownish. 



Bermatea ulids, Cooke, Grev., iii. p. 186 ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 339. 



Cenaiu/ella (Phaeangella) ulici.% Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2450. 



On dead branches of furze ( Ulex). Type specimen examined. 



Phaeangella subnitida. Mass. 



Eriimpent, gregarious, up to 1 mm. broad, turbinate then 

 flattened, disc marginate and depressed at first, then plane 

 or convex, blackish brown, externally naked ; excipu- 

 lum parenchymatous, cells small ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly biseriate, narrowly elliptic-oblong, almost 

 sausage-shaped, usually slightly curved, smooth, guttulate, 

 hyaline, then with a brown tinge, 12-16 X 4 /i, for a long 

 time continuous then 1-septate ; paraphyses very numerous, 

 filiform, septate, about 2 /x thick, apex not incrassated. 



Cenangium subnitidum. Cke. & Phil., Grev., vol. iii. p. 186 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 347 ; Sacc, Syll., n. 2310. 



On dead fallen branches of alder. 



Usually densely gregarious. 



Pycnidia. Scattered or solitary, mixed with the ascophores, 

 conical or hemispherical; stylospores filiform, tips acute, 

 hyaUne, curved, 10—15 x 1*5 /i. 



Type specimen examined, 



Phaeangella prunastri. Mass. 

 Erumpent, caespitose, springing from a common stroma, 

 at first closed and subcylindrical, then expanding, the disc 

 becoming plane or slightly concave, more or less distinctly 

 marginate, blackish, narrowed below into a stem-like base, 

 up to 1 mm., high and broad ; excipulum brownish, formed 

 of densely intertwisted hyphae ; asci clavate, slightly nar- 



