378 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
7. Propolis angulosa, Karst. 
Gregarious, immersed and innate in the parenchyma 
of the bark, primarily covered, then seated on the 
epidermis, at first tinted with a somewhat blue colour, 
erumpent, often encircled by four obtuse triangular 
lacine ; angular, or rarely angular or subrotund, plane ; 
hymenium greyish-green, mealy ; asci elongate-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, elongate, curved, somewhat yellowish-green, 
hyaline, 16—23 x 3—4u; paraphyses not very distinct. 
Propolis angulosa—Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 244. 
On branches of Salia. 
About 4 to ? of a line broad. 
Name—Angulosus, angular. 
Trefriw, North Wales! 
Genus Il.—Scumirzomra. Fries. 
Dise immersed, encircled by a dehiscent, substellate, 
distinct, suberose, friable ring ; asci cylindrical, slender 
elongated ; sporidia 8, filiform. (Plate XII. fig. 74.) 
The excipulum is reduced in this genus to a very 
thin membrane, which is wholly adnate to the matrix, 
at first closed, then open; the mouth encircled by a 
superficial, more or less persistent, usually white ring. 
The asci are very long and slender, splitting at their 
summits, allowing the still slenderer, nearly equally long, 
filiform sporidia to escape. S. Berkeleyana is sometimes 
superficial. 
Inhabiting dead wood, herbaceous stems, ete. 
Name—After J. Schmitz, and pvela, a tribute of 
respect, 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Hymenium blackish or ss .. species 1, 2 
B. Hymenium ochraceous or pallid . r 
c. Hymenium testaceous or orange-yellow 5 
D. Hymenium whitish or bluish-white ake » 56 
Key To THE Species. 
Margin laciniate, radiating .. os an -- radiata, 
Margin entire, yellowish-green oe oe «. DBerkeleyana. 
Margin entire .. a o. 2 oe sa: ok 
