PHACIDIUM. 889 
confluent in radiating lines; hymenium fuliginous; asci 
clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or obovate, straight 
or slightly curved, 7-10 x 3u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Phacidium radians—Rob. in Desm., “Crypt. Fr.” ; 
Desm., “ Ann. Se, Nat.,” 1842, p. 116; Karst., “Symb.,” 
p. 257; Cooke, “Grevillea,” ii, p. 165; Kickx., “ Flo. 
Flan.,” i, p. 459; Gill, “Champ.” p. 168. Trochila 
radians—De Not., “ Dise.,” p.16. Leptotrochila radians 
—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 245. 
Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” ed. 1.1350, and ed. ii. 750 ; 
Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 845. 
On living leaves of Campanula patula. 
Name—Radius, a sunbeam; from growing in radiating 
lines. 
Near Worcester (Mr. Edwin Lees). 
3. Phacidiwm minutissimum. Awd. 
Hypophyllous, gregarious, minute, innate, round or 
angular, brown, soon splitting from the centre into 3 to 
4 laciniz, exposing the whitish hymenium; asci minute, 
clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, 7 x 4u; paraphyses filiform, 
scarce. 
Phacidium minutissimum—Awd. in Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 228; Fckl, “Symb. Myco.,” p. 263; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2267; Sace., “Mich.,” vol. ui. p. 5387; Fresen., 
“ Beitr.,” t. viii. f£ 17-19; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 167, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 228; Fekl., “ F. Rh.,” 1098. 
About 100 to 150 broad. 
On oak-leaves. 
Name—Minutus, minute; very minute. 
Shere ! (Dr. Capron). 
4. Phacidiwm Vaccinii. Fries. 
Erumpent, minute, convex, shining, rugose, splitting 
into 4 lacinie; hymenium sooty black; asci broadly 
clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 10 x 4u; paraphyses 
filiform, slender. 
Spermogonia: spermatia simple, cylindrical, straight 
obtuse, 10—13 x 2—2°5u. 
