PSEUDOPEZIZA. 1P3 



Pseudopeziza medicaginis. Sacc. Fxmg. ArJ.,n. 90 : 

 Syll., viii. n. 2971. 



Sessile, innate, erumpent, girt by the ruptured epidermis, 

 seated on vellowijli spots : soon becoming almost plane, 

 yellowish-brown, thin and delicate, glabrons, about V mm. 

 across ; excipnlnm parenchymatous ; asci clavate, apex nar- 

 rowed, stipitate, S-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate. 

 hyaline, contimions, elliptical, 8-11 x 4-5 //, straight: 

 paraphyses hyaline, slender, slightly thick at the tips. 



Phacidium medicagims. Liberf, Crypt. Ard., exs.. n. 176. 



On the upper surface of living or fading leaves of various 

 species of Medicago. Saocardo says also on Trt'jvnella. 



Closely allied to P. trifolia ; ilistinguished by the somewhat 

 smaller spores, and different host plant. Specimens of this 

 species are in the Kew herbarium, collected by Baxter, near 

 Oxford, and by the Eev. J. E. Lee'e at Audley End, E-sex. 



Sfiecimen in Libert's exs. n. 176, examined. 



Pseudopeziza radians. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2974. 



Erumpent and bordered by the torn epidermis, blackish 

 and glabrous externally, concave then almost or quite plane, 

 up to f mm. across, circular or slightly elongated, disk pallid 

 or dingy; scattered, or more frequently gregarious and 

 forming fine black, straight, radiating, or dendritic lines : 

 exoipulum parenchymatous, cells small, externally bro^misi:- 

 olive ; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rather narrowel, often 

 irregularly nodulose at or near the Vase, S-spored ; spores 

 2-seriate, narrowly cylindric-clavate, or cylindrical and only 

 very slightly wider near the apex, ends obtuse, hyaline. 

 continuous, S-10 /i long, 3-3 '5 /x across at the widest part: 

 paraphyses rather stout, cylindrical, straight, aliout 3 fi. 

 thick. 



Phacidium radians, Eoberge, Ann. Sci. Xat., ser. ii.. vol. 

 x-Tii. p. 116 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 38S. 



On both surfaces of living leaves of Campanula jnitula, C. 

 rajiunculus, and other species of Campanida. 



Specimen sent by Eoberge to Berkeley, examined, als ' 

 specimen from Desm., Cr., Er., ser. i., n. looO. 



Pseudopeziza repanda. Sacc, Syll. n. 29S3. 

 Gregarious ; innate, roundish, ^-1 mm. broad, convex. 

 dingy pale green, then blackish, splitting from the centre 

 TOL. IV. 



