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Patellaria pallida—Berk., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 
1831; “Grevillea,” vii. p. 8. 
On smooth bark! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 
(6) Hyaline, septate. 
7. Patellaria proxima. B. and Br. 
Orbicular, shield-like, depressed, somewhat immersed, 
black; hymenium same colour or brown-black; asci 
clavate; sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse at the ends, slightly 
curved, 4 to 5-septate, 17—25 x 5—6y; paraphyses free, 
filiform, slender, branched. 
Patellaria proxima—B, and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 965, t. 16, f. 18; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2170. P. 
parvula—Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2178. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,’ No. 660; Phil. “Elv. 
Brit.,” No. 147. 
On dead oak. 
“Closely resembling P. atrata, but differing materi- 
ally in the fruit” (B. and Br.). 
Name—Proximus, nearest, next; from its approach- 
ing another species. 
Barking! (Berkeley and Broome). Shrewsbury ! 
8. Patellaria Hyperict. Phil. 
Gregarious, very minute, innate-sessile, applanate, 
immarginate, glabrous, blackish-brown; asci broadly 
clavate; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong-elliptic, triseptate, 
17—20 x 5—8u; paraphyses filiform. 
Patellaria Hyperici—Phil. in “ Grevillea,” x. p. 69. 
On dead stems of Hypericum. 
Cups 100 to 3004 broad, at first innate, then 
emerging. The sporidia of this species germinate freely 
within the ascus, thrusting the germ-tubes through the 
walls of the ascus; the free sporidia often present a 
germ-tube twice their length while yet in the hymenium. 
Name—Hypericum, a genus of Hypericacea ; growing 
on Hypericum. 
Shrewsbury ! 
