354 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
5. Tympanis conspersa. Fries, 
Ceespitose, in round or elongated erumpent groups; 
cups substipitate, truncate-turbinate, black; hymenium 
plane or slightly concave, submarginate ; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate; sporidia (?) innumerable, extremely minute; » 
paraphyses filiform, slender, enlarged and brown at the 
apices, adherent. : 
Spermogonia usually intermixed with the above, 
conical or obconical, black; spermatia very minute. 
(Plate XI. fig. 67.) 
Tympanis conspersa—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 175; 
“Eng. Flo,” v. p. 211; Grev., t. 338; Berk., “ Outl.,” 
p. 874; Tul, “Ann. Sc. Nat.,” xx. (1853) t. 16, f. 15, 16; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2186; Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” 
p. 226; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 197. 
Exs.—Fries, “ Sc}. Suec.,” Nos. 12 and 171; Berk., 
No. 160. 
On Pyrus, Crategus, ete. 
Name—Conspersus, sprinkled; distributed on the 
wood. 
Bagley Wood, near Oxford! (Mr. Baxter). 
6. Tympanis Aucuparic. (Pers.) 
Cespitose, black, sprinkled with whitish meal, at 
first spherical, then elongated, somewhat cylindrical, 
arising from a common stroma, closed, at length open at 
the apex; hymenium concave, blackish, marginate ; asci 
clavate; sporidia innumerable, extremely minute ; para~ 
physes filiform, slender, slightly enlarged at the summits, 
hrown, adherent. 
Spermogonia resembling the early stage of the above; 
spermatia extremely minute, borne on slender branched 
sterigmata. 
Spheria Aucuparie—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 51; A. 
and S., p. 25. Cenangium Aucuparie—Fries, “ Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 181; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 212; Cooke, 
« Handbk.,” No. 2191. Peziza Aucuparie—Grev., “Flo. 
Edin.,” p. 426, 
