372 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
“Fung. Eur.” 839; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 930; Cooke. 
“Fung. Brit.,” 276. 
On dead herbaceous stems, 
Name—Paitella, a saucer, 
Common! 
Genus III.—LaqueariA. Fries. 
Dise waxy, persistent, without any hypothecium, but 
covered with a horny, coriaceous, dimidiate, superior, 
deciduous excipulum ; mouth contracted (Berk., “ Outl.,” 
p. 873). (Plate XI. fig. 72.) 
Name—Laquear, a roof; from its peculiar form. 
1. Laquearia spheralis. Fries. 
Erumpent, hemispherical, brown-black, urceolate ; 
mouth contracted, entire ; disc plane, black ; asci oblong, 
sessile ; sporidia minute, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, simple. 
(Plate XI. fig. 72.) 
Laquearia spheralis—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 
366; Berk., “ Outl,” p. 373; Fekl, “Symb. Myco.,” p 
250; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2182. Stictis Spheralis— 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 194; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 213. 
Exs.—Fckl., “ F. Rh.,” No. 2066. 
On dead, decorticated branches of the ash. Winter. 
Introduced entirely on the authority of Mr. Purton; 
T have seen no specimens (M. J. Berkeley, 1. ¢.). 
Order VII—STICTEZ. Fries. 
Receptacle nearly obsolete, immersed in the matrix; 
hymenium even, determinate, orbicular or elliptic, mar- 
gined by the matrix or a ring of its own; asci cylin- 
drical or clavate ; sporidia elliptic, fusiform or elongate- 
filiform. (Plates XI, XII. figs. 73-75.) 
The excipulum is reduced to a thin membranaceous 
layer, which is immersed in the matrix, and adnate to it. 
