TYMPANIS. 353 
Near Shrewsbury! Found by Dr. Hall, locality un- 
known to me. 
C. SPORIDIA VERY MINUTE, INNUMERABLE, 
3. Tympanis laracina. (Fckl.) 
Cups scattered or cespitose, erumpent, sessile, totally 
black, horny; hymenium plane, margined ; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate ; sporidia very minute, innumerable. 
Pyenidia rotund, closed, at length perforated, black, 
rugulose; stylospores long, filiform, slender, curved, 
flowing out in a yellow gelatinous mass. 
Cenangiwm Laracinum—Fckl, “Sys. Myco.,” p. 
270; “ Grevillea,” 2, p. 187. 
Exs.—Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” 145. 
On bark of Larix Ewropeus. 
Name—Laria, the genus to which the larch belongs. 
Shrewsbury ! 
4, Tympanis ligustri. Tul. 
Gregarious or solitary, erumpent, at first obtuse, then 
expanded into a marginate hymenium, substipitate, 
black, glabrous, between gelatinous and horny, pale’ 
within ; asci broadly cylindrical ; sporidia (?) innumer- 
able, very minute, ovate or ovate-oblong; paraphyses 
filiform, slender, numerous. 
Stylospores (conidia ?) diplodia-form, borne on filiform 
sporophores, intermixed with the asci and paraphyses. 
Tympanis ligustri—Tul., “Select. Fung. Carp.,” iii. 
p. 154; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2187. Tympanis saligna 
—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 176 (in part); B. and Br., 
“Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 584; Berk., “ Outl,” t. 1, f 10; 
Gill, “Champ.,” p. 197. Cenangium ligustri—F ck, 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 268. : 
Exs.—Fckl., “F. Rh.,” No. 767; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 
No. 229; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.” ed. ii. 461. 
On Ligustrum vulgare. 
Name—Ligustrum, the generic name of the host- 
lant. 
Lucknam, Wiltshire (Messrs. Berkeley and Broome). 
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