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9. Patellaria compressa. (A. and 8.) 
Scattered or crowded, minute, innate, thin, blackish, 
when dry compressed, conchiform ; asci clavate; sporidia 
8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2 to 3-septate, straight or 
curved, 8—11 x 3°54; paraphyses filiform, branched. ; 
Peziza compressa—a. and §&., p. 340; “Eng. Flo.,” v. 
p. 207; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2124. Dwrella compressa 
—Tul., “Select. Fung. Carp.,” iii. t. 22, f. 8-14; Roumg,, 
“Fung. Gal.,” 589; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 191. 
On dead wood. ; 
This approaches very near to Patellaria proxima, 
B. and Br., but the sporidia are not so large. 
Name—Compressus, pressed together; having the 
margin pressed together. 
Appin, 
10. Patellaria lecideola., (Fries.) 
Sessile, minute, somewhat horny, concave, black; 
seated upon a cinereous spot-like crust; asci clavate ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, pseudo-3-septate, 
9—16 X 4—5u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza, lecideola—Fries, “Obs. Myco.,” i. p. 166, t. 4, 
f.1; Karst., “Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 41; “Mon. Pez.,” p. 167; 
Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 64. Patellaria lecideola—Karst., 
“Myco. Fenn.,” p. 234; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2179; 
Gill, “Champ.,” p. 191. 
Exs.—Fries, “Sel. Suec.,” 157; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 
641, 
On dead wood. Karsten says poplar and birch. 
Name—Lecidea, a genus of lichens; like a small 
Lecidea. 
Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 
11. Patellaria Lonicere (nov. sp.). 
Gregarious, minute, sessile, subhemispherical, then 
partly expanded, black; hymenium concave, fuliginous ; 
margin incurved; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, elon- 
gate-oblong or oblong-fusiform, 6 to 7-guttulate, becoming 
