386 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
8. Stictis punctiformis. Pers. 
Gregarious, minute, immersed, urceolate, suborbicular ; 
hymenium reddish-brown or fuliginous; mouth con- 
nivent, surrounded by a border of the same colour; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform, simple; para- 
physes filiform, globose at the apices. at ck 
Stictis punctiformis—Pers. in Gay’s collection in 
Kew Herbarium, named by Persoon himself, with which 
the English specimen has been compared. 
On dead willow-wood. , 
Cups 100 to 500u broad. Very similar to S. Fagicola, 
but the sporidia are simple, and the paraphyses are 
globose at the apices. 
Name—Punctum, a point, forma, shape. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
D. SPORIDIA DOUBTFUL. 
9. Stictis graminum. Desm. 
Orbicular, scattered, small, deeply excavated; disc 
black; margin prominent, clad with a white meal, nearly 
entire ; asci elongated; sporidia (very minute, globose). 
Stictis gramimum—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” exs. No. 
1071; “Ann. Se. Nat.” (1840), xiii 185; B. and Br., 
“Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 1828; Fekl., “Sys. Myco.,” p. 250; 
“ Grevillea,” i. p. 132; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 179; Pat., 
p. 30, f. 69 (?). 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.” 1071; Fekl, “F. Bh.,” 
1106. 
On Carex paniculata. June. 
Desmazieres describes the sporidia as “ very minute, 
globose ;” Fuckel as “filiform, as long as the ascus.” 
Not having seen the British plant, we cannot determine 
the form of sporidia (Cooke, J. ¢.). 
Rejected Species, 
Stictis parallela, Fries, is a Xylographa (vide 
Leighton’s “ Lichen Flora of Great Britain ”). 
Stictis longa, Fries, is a Xylographa. 
