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(b) Hyaline, simple. 
4. Patellaria flecella. (Fries.) 
Immersed, compressed, minute, concave, subcoriaceous, 
variously flexuose, black ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
5 xX 2:5u; paraphyses adherent, black at the summit. 
Peziza flecella—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 152; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 207; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2125. 
Exs.—Moug. and Nest., No. 1094; Roumg., “Stirpes,’ 
333. 
On dead wood, especially pine. 
Cups about 100 to 290u broad. This is usually re- 
garded by lichenologists as a Xylographa; but, until 
this and its allies are grouped on some more satisfactory 
basis, we retain it here. 
Name—Flexus, bowed ; slightly bent. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
(c) Hyaline, septate. 
5. Patellarva minutissima (nov. sp.). 
Gregarious or scattered, very minute, sessile, when 
dry compressed, when moist expanded; externally blackish- 
brown; margin entire, incurved; hymenium fuliginous- 
brown; asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, hyaline, 2 to 3-guttulate, at length 3-septate, 
6 X 84; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the bent 
apices. 
On decayed wood. 
Cups about 300u broad; when dry somewhat im- 
mersed in the wood. 
Name—Minutus, minute; very minute. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
B, SPORIDIA OBLONG OR OBLONG-ELLIPTIC, 
(a) Hyaline, simple. 
6. Patellaria pallida. Berk. 
Gregarious, sessile, pallid, with a somewhat obtuse 
margin; sporidia biseriate, oblong, slightly curved; 
12u long. 
