PROPOLIS. 377 
Name—Versicolor, changing colour. 
Common ! 
C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM. 
5. Propolis chrysophea, (Pers.) 
Scattered, erumpent, orbicular ; hymenium concave, 
reddish ; border rather thickened, golden yellow; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate or cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 
simple, 9—11 x 2u; paraphyses filiform, slender, some- 
times branched in the upper part, and slightly thickened 
at the apices. 
Peziza chrysophea—Pers., “Syn. Fung.” p. 674; 
“Teon. Pict.,” p. 17, t. 8, f. 1, 2. Stictis chrysophea— 
Pers., “Myco. Eur.” p. 885; B. and Br, “Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 966, t. 16, f 19; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 
2226. 
On wych-elm. 
About 4 to ? of a line broad. 
Name—xpvodc, gold, gatoc, dusky ; dingy golden. 
Z = ease (Mr. C. E. Broome in Berkeley’s herb., 
ew. 
D. SPORIDIA CYLINDRICAL, 
6. Propolis Rose. Fckl. 
Disc erumpent, nearly convex, white, size and form 
variable; asci cylindrical, stipitate; sporidia biseriate, 
cylindrical, bent, obtusely rounded at each end, 2 guttz, 
hyaline, 24—26 x 7—8u; paraphyses filiform, same 
length as the asci. 
Propolis Rose—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 254. 
Exs.—Fckl., “ F. Rh.,” 1276. 
The sporidia in my specimen become 2 pseudo- 
septate; asci 118 x 12u. Fuckel regards Exidia sac- 
charina, Fries, as the conidial stage of this species. 
On fallen branches of Rosa canina. 
Name—Rosa, the genus to which Rosa canina 
belongs, on which it is found. 
Trefriw, North Wales! 
