288 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



become tinged with olive at the cortex, are often constricted 

 like a string of sausages, and have the vralls furnished with 

 delicate thickened bands; asci cylindric-clavate, apex some- 

 what narrowed and thick-walled, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, elliptical, ends obtuse, 

 straight or slightly curved, continuous, hyaline, often 

 guttulate, 14-18 X 5-7 /^ ; paraphyses slender, slightly 

 thickened and coloured at the tip. 



OmbropMla Kriegeriana^ Eabenh., Hedw., 1878, p. 31. 



Chlorosplenium Kriegerianum, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1320. 



Butstroemia elatina, Eehm, Krypt. -Flora, Disc, p. 767, 

 iigs. 1-5, p. 751. 



Peziza elatina, A. & S., Consp., p. 330, t. ii. f. 3. 



On small, fallen branches of Abies pectuata, &c. 



Specimens examined in Eab., Fung. Eur., n. 2315 a, and 

 Eehm, Ascom., n. 660. 



VESTITAE. 



A. Spores glohose. 

 Pitya. Growing on conifers. 

 Sphaerospora. G-rowing on the ground. 



B. Spores elongated ; ascophores gregarious on a spreading 



suhiculum ; or base of ascophore densely strigose. 



Tapesia. Ascophores minute, gregarious on an eifused 

 subiculum. Growing on wood. 



Plectania. Ascophores large, furnished at the base 

 with coarse, black hyphae. Growing on branches and 

 wood. 



C. Spores elongated, 3 — many-septate ; ascophores not seated on 



a subiculum, nor strigose at the base. 



Erinella. Paraphyses lanceolate. Growing on plants. 

 Echinella. Paraphyses cylindrical. Growino- 



plants. 



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