TYMPANIS. 355 
Exs.—Moug. and Nest., No. 789. 
On dead branches of mountain ash. 
Name—Aucuparia, the specific name of Pyrus 
aucuparia, on which it grows. 
Craiglockhart (Dr. Greville). 
7. Tympanis Fraxini. (Schwz.) 
Ceespitose, in elongated erumpent groups; cups sub- 
sessile, turbinate-truncate, shining, black; hymenium 
plane, rugose, marginate; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia (?) 
innumerable, extremely minute; paraphyses filiform, 
slender. 
Peziza Fraxini—Schwz., “ Synop.,” No. 1262. Tym- 
panis Fraeini—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 174; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 210; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2185. Cenan- 
gium Fraxini—Tul, “ Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1853, p. 140. © 
Exs.—Libert, No. 1029; Roumg., “ Fung. Gal.,” 1272. 
On branches of ash. Winter and spring. 
Name—Fraxinus, the generic name of the host- 
plant. 
Appin (Capt. Carmichael). 
8. Tympanis alnea. (Pers.) 
Cespitose, bursting through the bark in rounded 
groups, shortly stipitate, brownish-black, somewhat 
horny; hymenium plane or slightly concave, sub- 
marginate; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia (?) in- 
numerable, extremely minute; paraphyses filiform, 
slender, adherent, brown at the summits. 
Spermogonia intermixed with the above, subconical 
or oblong-ovate, opening by a minute pore. Spermatia 
extremely minute, born on slender branched sporo- 
phores. 
Peziza alnea—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 673; “Myco 
Eur.,” p. 325. TLympanis alnea—Fries, “Sys. Myco.” ii. 
p.174; “Elench.,” p. 18; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 210; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2184 (in part.) Cenangvum alneum— 
Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. oF (?). 
