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true fungus many years ago, since which time little or 
no light has been thrown upon its affinity. 
Name— Lichen, a lichen, colo, to inhabit. 
Wareham (Rev. M. J. Berkeley), Isle of Skye (Mr. 
C. Babington). Ireland! 
2. Stictis pallida. Pers. 
Scattered or gregarious, sometimes two or more 
coalescent, immersed, elliptic or circular; hymenium 
yellowish; mouth at first connivent, then open; asci 
clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic or subclavate, hyaline, 3 to 
5 pseudo-septate, 14d—17 x 5—6u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender, adherent. (Plate XII. fig. 75.) 
Stictis pallida—Pers., “Obs.,” ii. p. 74, t. 6, f. 7; 
“Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 338; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 196; 
“Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 373; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 213; 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 243; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 
2221; Pat. p. 212, f. 490. Cryptodiscus pallidus— 
Corda., “Icon. Fung.,” ii. p. 37, t. 15, f. 129. 
Exs.—Fries, “Sel. Suec.,” No. 275; Karst. “Fung. 
Fenn.,” 262. 
On decorticated wood. 
In an authentic specimen in Fries’s “Scl. Suec.,” No. 
275, the receptacles are mostly elliptic, $ to } a line long; 
the wood immediately surrounding them is whitish. 
Name—Pallidus, pale. 
Appin (Carmichael). 
3. Stictis microstoma. Carm. 
Very minute, punctiform, prominent, blackish, opening 
with a minute round or subelliptie orifice; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 3-septate, hya- 
line, granular within, 13—15 x 3u; paraphyses filiform, 
branched. 
Stictis microstoma—Carm., “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 213; 
Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 375 ; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No, 2222. 
On wood, 
Scattered, at first nearly white, with a minute orifice, 
round which it gradually assumes a darker hue, and at 
