PROPOLIS. 373 
Tn Propolis there is a thin subhymenial tissue, but in 
Schmitzomia and Stictis this is all but obsolete. 
Inhabiting dead bark, wood, herbaceous stems, ete. 
Name—From the typical genus. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE GENERA. 
I. Propolis. Fries. IL. Stictis. Fries, 
Il. Schmitzomia. Fries. 
Key To THE GENERA, 
Hymenium immersed, waxy, plane; sporidia oblong 
or elliptic .. .. Propolis. 
Hymenium deeply immersed ; : sporidia elongate- 
filiform we . Schmitzomia. 
Hymenium deeply immersed ; ” gporidia not filiform Stictis. 
Genus I—Propo.is. Fries, “ Elench.,” p. 372. 
Hymenium irregular, immersed, waxy, plane, sur- 
rounded by an accessory margin; excipulum indistinct 
or absent; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 4 or 8, 
oblong or oblong-elliptic ; paraphyses filiform, adherent. 
(Plate XI. fig. 73.) 
Excipulum membranaceous, immersed, adnate to the 
matrix, at length erumpent, and splitting in a stellate 
manner, the matrix often forming a second margin. The 
subhymenial tissue is more developed than in the two 
succeeding genera, and the hymenium is plane or con- 
cave, rarely if ever urceolate; asci clavate; sporidia 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic. 
On dead wood and bark. 
Name— Propolis, bee-glue, which the hymenium is 
like. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Sporidia elliptic ars eis a -. species 1 
B. Sporidia oblong oe ae ae a8 » 2-4 
o. Sporidia fusiform .. ee oe oe » 5 
p. Sporidia cylindrical .. ie as a » 6,7 
Key To THE SPECIES. 
Hymenium black a re ee pyri, 
Hymenium greyish-green_ . +. angulosa. 
Hymenium reddish; margin golden-yellow «+ chrysophea. 
