358 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Hist.,” 160; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 2080. Crumenula Led 
—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 214. 
On Arbutus Uva-Ursi. September. 
Sessile, globose-hemispherical ; externally rugose, 
brownish-black ; mouth especially shining, greenish, 
covered with a compact powder; disc dingy. 
Glencoe, N.B. (Mr. Churchill Babington). 
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Genus VI—EpuHELis. Fries, “Fung. Mexic.,” and 
“Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 370. 
Perithecium (stroma) forming an effused crust; here 
and there tuberculate, tubercles dehiscing into cup-shaped 
excipula. (Plate XI. fig. 69.) | 
Name é¢nXig, spots brought out by the sun. 
1. Ephelis Rhinanthi (nov. sp.). 
Cups at first tuberculate, crowded or gregarious, 
arising from an effused horny crust, at length expanding, 
patelliform, softish-waxy, black ; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate; sporidia 8, oblong, or clavate, 3-guttulate, 
10 x 54; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the 
apices. (Plate XI. fig. 69.) 
Rhytisma radicalis—Cooke, “Grevillea,” viii. p. 9 
(the immature stage). 
On stems near the base, and roots, of Rhinanthus 
Crista gallt. Autumn. 
The mature cups are about a } of a line broad, sessile, 
attached by a broadish base, externally rough, internally 
pale grey. Dr. Cooke finds stylospores which are 
elongated fusiform, tapering at the extremities to a 
slender point, with two or more septa, 70 x 5u. The 
general appearance is that of a black gouty swelling, the 
unexpanded cups somewhat like a Cucurbitaria. 
Name—Rhinanthus, the genus to which the yellow 
rattle belongs. 
Near Aberdeen (Mr. J. Taylor), Forres, N.B,! (Rev. 
Dr. Keith). Osmere, near Whitchurch, Salop ! 
