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BRITISH PYRENOMYCETES. 
By G. Massee. 
{Continued from p. 14 .) 
Fam. 8. CUCURBIT ARIiE. Perithecia caespitose or gre- 
garious. 
Gen. 1. NITSCHKIA, Otth. Perithecia black, or seated on a 
thin white villous stratum. Sporidia sausage-shaped, hyaline. 
N. cupularis, Pers ., Sacc. Syll. 377 ; Hdbk. 2524. 
On sloe. Hampstead, King’s Cliffe, Kew, Batheaston, 
Botanic Garden, Edinboro’. 
Gen. 2. GIBBERA, Fr., Sacc. Syll. i., p. 599. Perithecia setulose, 
papillate. 
* Sporidia uniseptate , hyaline. 
G. vaccinii, Fr. t Sacc. Syll. 2338; Hdbk. 2525. 
On Vaccinium vitis-idcea. Stiperstones. 
Gen. 3. OTTHIA, Ntlce., Sacc. Syll. i., 735. Perithecia caespi- 
tose, erumpent then superficial, carbonaceous, scarcely papillate. 
* Sporidia uniseptate , coloured. 
O. pruni, Fckl., Sacc. Syll. 2783. 
On sloe. Eastbourne. 
0. populina, Pers ., Sacc. Syll. 2785. 
Ofi poplar. Kew Gardens. 
O. syringae, Fr., Sacc. Syll. 2791. 
On lilac. 
Gen. 4. CUCURBITARIA, Gray, Sacc. Syll. ii., 307. Perithecia 
in erumpent tufts, carbonaceous, typically rugulose. 
* Melanomma. Sporidia triseptate , brown. 
C. Aspegrenii, Fckl., Sacc. Syll. 3229 ; Hdbk. 2606. 
On blackthorn. Orton Wood. 
C. dioica, Moug ., Sacc. Syll. 2911. 
On Acer. Shere, Dupplin. 
C. conglobata, Fr ., Sacc. Syll. 3950. 
On Corylus. Appin. 
** Dictyospora. Sporidia muriform , coloured. 
C. berberidis ( P.), Sacc. Syll. 3935 ; Hdbk. 2520. 
On dead branches of barberry. Forden, Edinboro’, Shrews- 
bury, Hayes, Scarboro’. 
