884 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
length, under a high magnifier, appears, when moist, of 
a subolivaceous black, resembling a minute Spheria 
(M. J. Berkeley). Mouth 200 to 400u broad; the disc 
when moistened is pale yellowish brown. 
Name—pupéde, small, oréua, the mouth; from the 
small mouth. 
Appin (Capt. Carmichael). 
B. SPORIDIA CLAVATE. 
4. Stictis pteridina. Phil. and Buck. 
Scattered, slightly immersed, circular or elongated, 
irregular, open; hymenium pallid-brown, not deeply 
depressed ; margin membranaceous ; asci broadly clavate ; 
sporidia 8, biseriate, clavate or clavate-fusiform, 6 to 
7 times pseudo-septate or muriform, 28—44 x 5—9u; 
paraphyses filiform, adherent. 
Stictis pteridina—Phil. and Buck. in Bucknall’s 
“Fung. Bristol,” pt. vi. p. 5, t. 1, f 6. 
On stems of Pteris aquilina. 
Name—FPteris, the genus of ferns on one of which it 
grows. 
Near Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 
Cc. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM. 
5. Stictis hysterioides, Desm. 
Immersed, closed, hysteriform, then erumpent, pro- 
minent, open, ovate-oblong or suborbicular; border 
brown-black, subgranulate; hymenium waxy, tawny or 
rufus ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse 
or fusiform, with 4 gutte, 16 x 3—4u; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Stictis hysterioides—Desm., “ Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1843, 
p. 365; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 314; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2225. Propolis hysteriowdes—Fckl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 255. 
Exs.—Berk., No. 308; Moug. and Nest., No, 1242; 
Roumg., “ Stirpes,” 337. 
On dead leaves of Carices. 
