376 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
farinose, becoming spadiceous; asci clavate; sporidia 8, 
oblong, obtuse, slightly bent, with 2, 3, or even 4 gutti, 
15 long. 
" Stictis versicolor, Fries, var. Strobilina—Desm., 
“ Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1842, p. 52. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. No, 1816, and ed. 
ii, No. 716. 
On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 
Cups 4 a line broad ; when elongated they may be 1 
lines long. ; 
Desmaziere remarks that there is no danger of con- 
founding this with P. rhodolewca, which has a rosy-white 
disc, is yellow within, and. has didymus (uniseptate) 
sporidia ; but the probability is that they are only condi- 
tions of the same plant, and in the estimation of some 
would both be regarded as not specifically distinct from 
P. versicolor. 
Name—Sérobilos, a pine-cone. 
4, Propolis versicolor. Fries. 
Immersed, suboblong, plane; margin spurious, 
laciniate ; hymenium at length farinaceous ; asci broadly 
clavate ; sporidia oblong, rounded at the ends, slightly 
curved, with 2 or more gutta, 2430 x 7—9u; para- 
physes filiform. (Plate XI. fig. 73.) 
Stictis Propolis versicolor—Fries, “ Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 
198 ; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2230; Corda, “ Icon.,” ii. t. 15, - 
f.133. Propolis versicolor—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” 
p. 372; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 182, c. i; Pat. p. 30, f. 70. 
Cryptomyces versicolor— Eng. Flo.,” v. p.214. Propolis 
faginea (Schrad.)—Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 244. 
Exs.—Fries, No. 276; Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 1109; Rav., 
“Fung. Am.,” 315, 316; Roumg., “Fung. Gal.” 1962; 
Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 463. 
On pales, chips, sticks, ete. 
Fries names four varieties of this species, but, as no 
regard was paid by him to the sporidia, it would be vain 
to attempt any definition of these, 
