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The Scottish Naturalist. 



Genus III. Stegia Fr. 

 338- S. Ilicis Fr., (M.S. 1815; Ph. 398). 



On dead leaves of Ilex AquifoUum. throughout the year. 

 Tweed ; Solway ; Forth ; Clyde ! Tay ! Argyle ; Dee 

 Moray; Ross. 



APPENDIX. 



I have been favoured by Mr. Phillips with the following descrip- 

 tions of species enumerated as Scotch in the preceding list, 

 but which are not mentioned in his Manual of British Dis- 

 comycetes, owing to not being known as British at the date 

 of publication of that work. 



"Lachnella callimorpha (Karst.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile or shortly stipitate, tomentose, when fresh some- 

 what plane, when dry spherical, or hemispherico-contracted ; hymenium 

 yellow, or orange-yellow; asci subclavato-c>lindrical, sporidia 8, linear- 

 fusiform, 6-8-guttate, or spuriously pluri-septate, straight, 14-19 by 2-4. 

 Paraphyses acerose. 



Laehnea callimorpha, Karst. Symbolce p. 250. Lachnum calli- 

 morphum, Karst. Mycol. Fenn., p. 173. Lachnella callimorpha, 

 Phill. Grevillea. XVI., p. 94. 



On dead leaves of Eriophorum angustifolium. March to May. 



Cups 300-500 broad. Hairs short, aseptate, colourless. Asci 40-50 by 4. 



Near Aberdeen ! (Professor J. W. H. Trail.) 

 Lachnella grisella (Rehm.) 



Cups scattered, shortly stipitate, turbinate, greyish, inclining to brown, 

 clothed with pale brownish, or sub-hyaline flexuous simple hairs ; tissue 

 prosenchymatous ; asci clavate, sub-acute at the apex, sometimes curved; 

 sporidia 8, oblongo-clavate, straight, or a little bent, biseriate, 7-9 by 2-2J ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender, hyaline. 



Helolium grisellum Rehm. Hedivigia, 1885, p. 13, Exs. 

 Rehm's Asco., No. 766. 



On dead fronds of Pteris aquilina. August. Dr. Rehm justly 

 remarks that this is a very difficult species to detect, nestling on 

 the under side of the leaf amongst the hairs. 



The cups are about 400 broad, and 300 high, sub-stipitate, or sessile ; the 

 margin is fringed with non-septate colourless hairs, 25 long by 2 broad ; the 

 asci are 35 by 5. 



This species comes near Lachnella aspidiicola B & Br., but has 

 a shorter stipes, is darker in colour, and has longer sporidia. 



Deepdale, near Kirkwall, Mainland of Orkney ! (Professor J. 

 W. H. Trail). 1888. 



