PATELLARIA. 369 
20. Patellaria atro-vinosa. Blox. (not Berk. and Rav.). 
Gregarious or crowded, minute, round or of irregular 
outline, almost black, distinctly margined; margin 
vinous-purple ; asci elongate-clavate; sporidia 8, tinged 
with green, fusiform or linear-fusiform, pseudo-3-septate, 
straight or curved, 17—-20 x 3—4u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender, branched. 
Patellaria atro-vinosa—Blox., MS.; Curr., “ Linn, 
Trans.,” xxiv. p. 155, t. 25, f. 831; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 10; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2171. 
On bark. 
Cups } to 4 a line broad. The disc is blackish- 
brown; the margin lighter brown, and somewhat pro- 
minent. 
Name—Ater, black, vinosus, colour of red wine. 
Gopsal, near Twycross! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 
21. Patellaria atro-alba. Cooke. 
Gregarious or scattered, small, sessile, at length plane, 
black ; dise white; sporidia fusiform, 7-septate, hyaline. 
Cooke’s “ Handbk.,” No. 2168. 
On decorticated sticks. 
Variable in size, usually gregarious, but always small; 
readily distinguished from its allies by the white disc; 
sporidia broadly fusiform, (0013 inch (30) long (Cooke). 
E. SPORIDIA FILIFORM. 
(a) Hyaline, septate. 
22. Patellaria vermifera (nov. sp.). 
Scattered, sessile, very minute, cupulate, then patelli- 
form, black, glabrous; margin entire ; asci broadly clavate ; 
sporidia 8, narrowly cylindrical, vermiform, multiguttu- 
late, 30—35 x 3u; paraphyses slenderly filiform, abun- 
dant, branched. 
On dead branches of decorticated holly. 
Cups about 500 broad. 
2B 
