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biseriate, hyaline, smooth, straight or very slightly curved, 
oblong-fusiform, I-septate, not at all constricted at the septum, 
10-15 X 3-43; paraphyses filiform, sometimes branched, contain- 
ing orange oil-globules. 
On dry decorticated beech wood. Gomshall, Surrey. Found 
on the same matrix in Hungary and on decaying wood of 
Castanea in the United States. Journ. Bot., April, 1896. 
Stictis stellata Wallr. Fl. Crypt, p. 144. 
Ascophore immersed, then erumpent, sessile, orbicular, small, 
with a black covering, then opening and shewing a horn-coloured 
concave disc ; the outer covering furfuraceous, grumous, dirty- 
white, splitting in 4-6 stellate divisions at the reflexed margin ; 
asci cylindrical 8-spored ; spores fusiform, septate, colourless, 
150-200 X I'*5u. : 
On dead stems of Eupatorium cannabinum. West Kilbride, 
Nov., 1893. Mr. D. A. Boyd. 
Pseudophacidium Callune Karst. 
Subgregarious, erumpent, subspherical, breaking from the 
centre in 4 somewhat triangular laciniz, black with a pallid disc, 
about I mm. in diameter; asci clavate 62-95 x 10-I12m; spores 
elliptical or oblong elliptical, eguttulate, continuous, colourless, 
9-17 X 4-6u. 
On dead branches of Calluna vulgaris. West Kilbride, 
March, 1892. Mr. D. A. Boyd. Journ. Bot., May, 1898. 
Lizonia de Not. Sferiz. italici, De 72. 
_ Perithecia crowded superficial smooth of almost leathery con- 
sistence ; spores 8 oblong, 2-celled, brownish. 
Lizonia emperigonia de Not. 
Perithecia in rows or small groups on the upper surface 
of the antheridial leaves of moss, attached by creeping brown 
hyphz, ovate, blunt at the apex or with a small papilla, black, 
250-300 in diameter ; asci clavate or oblong-cylindrical, shortly 
stalked 1354x185; spores in two rows oblong or oblong- 
fusiform, mostly unequal-sided, 1-septate slightly constricted 
30-46u x 10-15. 
On the flower-heads of Palins commune. Found by Mr. 
