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Ombrophila helotioides Phill. 



Stipitate, solitary or csespitose, capitulate, pallid, glabrous, subgelatinous, 

 hymenium convex, margin thin, undulating ; stem cylindrical, a little flexuous, 

 asci cylindraceo-ckwate ; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform, straight or slightly 

 bent, 5-guttulate, 20-26 by 2-3! ; paraphyses filiform, hardly thickened at the 

 apices. 



Ombrophila helotioides^ Phill. Grevillea, vol. XVI., p. 94. 

 On dead stems of Eguisetum^ in water. Autumn. 

 Cup 2-4 mm. broad, the whole plant 4-8 mm. high, stem \ mm. thick. 

 This differs from O. clavus in the sporidia. 

 Park Loch, near Aberdeen ! (C. B. Plowright). 

 Patellaria Crataegi, Phill. 



Solitary or csespitose, eiumpent, hemispherical, then patellate, the prominent 

 margin and the exterior brownish-black ; the interior whitish ; hymenium 

 black ; asci cylindrical, narrowed at the base ; sporidia 8, large, narrowly 

 clavate, often ventricose in the centre, faintly coloured, having numerous 

 guttse, 30-60 by 5-6 in the broadest part; paraphyses adherent, filiform, clavate, 

 brown, and septate at the apices. 



Patellaria Cratcegi Phill. Grevillea, vol. XVII., p. 46. 



On twigs of Crataegus. January — April. 



Cups mm. broad ; asci 140- 1 60 by 10. 



The cups break through the bark singly or in csespitose clusters 

 of three to five, suggesting Tympanis. P. Cratcegi is nearly re- 

 lated to P. bacilligera, Karst. 



Corbie Den, near Aberdeen ! (Professor J. W. H Trail). 

 Schmitzomia Junci (Karst.) 



Receptacles scattered, minute, erumpent, and more or less protuberant, 

 orbicular, urceolate, opening by a minute pore, the margin of which is almost 

 entire and powdery white ; hymenium rosy, or pale orange , asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, adherent, filiform, multiseptate, 120-130 by I-lJ; paraphyses 

 abundant, filiform, slender. 



Schmitzomia Luzulce (Lib.) De Not. 



* Junci, Karst. Mycol. Fenn. p. 238. 



Exsic. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 931. 



On culms of /uncus conglomerate. Autumn. 



The receptacles are 200 broad ; the asci 130-170 by 6-6|. 



The Scottish specimens evidently belong to this species, but, as 

 they are not fully matured, I have preferred to give Dr. Karsten's 

 measurements and, in the main, his diagnosis. It appears to me 

 as worthy of being recognised as a species, rather than as a variety, 

 as many of its allies are. 



Syradale, Mainland of Orkney ! (Professor J. W. H. Trail)." 



