Scattered, gregarious or confluent, erumpent, surrounded by the lacerated bark, at first closed, globosedepressed, then open, patelliform; the true margin fimbriate; hymenium golden-yellow, becoming brown; flesh at first soft, at length firm; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, with one or two large guttæ, 25 x 12u; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the apices, adhering in a yellow glutine.

Pycnidia intermixed with the above, occupying the sides or summit of the same stroma, disc-shaped; stylospores oblong or oblong-elliptic, straight or slightly curved, issuing through the narrowly perforated epidermis; sterigmata branched, rather stout.

Peziza Lecanora-Schm. and Kunz., exs. 174. Stictis Lecanora-Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 193; and "Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 373; Wallr., "Flo. Germ.,” ii. p. 443; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1172; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2227. Peziza ocellata-Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 667; and "Myco. Eur.," i. p. 313. Stictis ocellata-Fries, "Sys.: Myco.," ii. p. 193; "Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 373; Tul., Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. p. 128, t. 18, f. 1-11; Gill., Champ.," figure only. Propolis Lecanora and P. Populi -De Not., "Disc.," p. 10.

Exs. Schm. and Kunze, No. 174; Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 869, and ed. ii. No. 69; Rabh., “Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. No. 519; "Fung. Eur.," ii. No. 457, 787; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 555; Winter, "Fungi Eur.," 2641; Kunz., "Fung. Sel.," 366.

On various species of Salix, and on Populus.

Disc about a line broad, circular or oblong, surrounded by the torn bark, which forms a fringe. The colour is a reddish-yellow or dark brown.

Name-Lecanora, a genus of lichens.
Jedburgh (A. Jerdon). Oxford! (Baxter).

B. SPORIDIA OBLONG.

2. Propolis pyri. (B. and Br.)

Gregarious or confluent, erumpent, orbicular; hyme nium plane or concave, black, surrounded by a laciniate margin; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, with 1 or 2 large guttæ, slightly tinted brown, 15-20 × 8u; paraphyses filiform, slender, adherent in a dark purple gelatine.

Stictis Lecanora (Schum.) var. pyri—B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1624, t. 11, f. 7; "Grevillea," v. p. 62. Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 148.

On bark of pear-trees.

Disc about a line broad. The sporidia are smaller than in S. Lecanora, the paraphyses slenderer, and the hymenial gelatine is purple, not yellow.

Name-Pyrus, the genus to which the pear belongs.
Shrewsbury! Sutton Coldfield, Warwick! (Mr. W. B.

Grove).

3. Propolis rhodoleuca. (Sommf.)

At first immersed, then erumpent, ovate, plane, rosywhite, pruinose, yellow within, surrounded by a spurious margin; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, often plane on one side, becoming 1-septate, 17-20 × 7-10μ; paraphyses filiform, slender. Stictis rhodoleuca-Sommf., "Lapp.," p. 198; Fries, "Sys. Myco."; "Elench.,” ii. p. 26.

On cones of Pinus sylvestris.

Cups 1 to 2 lines long. Much resembling P. versicolor, from which it differs little except in colour. Name-pódov, a rose, Aɛvкóc, white; rose-white.

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In the late Mr. F. Currey's herbarium, now at Kew!

Var. Strobilina. (Desm.)

Solitary or gregarious, angular, nearly circular or oblong, plane, white within; hymenium milk-white,

farinose, becoming spadiceous; asci clavate; sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse, slightly bent, with 2, 3, or even 4 guttæ, 15μ long. Strobilina-Desm.,

Stictis versicolor, Fries, var. "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1842, p. 52.

Exs.-Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1316, and ed. ii. No. 716.

On cones of Pinus sylvestris.

Cups a line broad; when elongated they may be 11 lines long.

Desmaziere remarks that there is no danger of confounding this with P. rhodoleuca, which has a rosy-white disc, is yellow within, and has didymus (uniseptate) sporidia; but the probability is that they are only conditions of the same plant, and in the estimation of some would both be regarded as not specifically distinct from P. versicolor.

Name Strobilos, a pine-cone.

4. Propolis versicolor. Fries.

Immersed, suboblong, plane; margin spurious, laciniate; hymenium at length farinaceous; asci broadly clavate; sporidia oblong, rounded at the ends, slightly curved, with 2 or more guttæ, 24-30 x 7-9μ; paraphyses filiform. (Plate XI. fig. 73.)

Stictis Propolis versicolor-Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 198; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2230; Corda, " Icon.," ii. t. 15, f. 133. Propolis versicolor-Fries, "Summa Veg. Scan." p. 372; Gill., " Champ.," p. 182, c. i.; Pat., p. 30, f. 70. Cryptomyces versicolor "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 214. Propolis faginea (Schrad.) Karst., “Myco. Fenn.," p. 244.

Exs.-Fries, No. 276; Fckl., "F. Rh.," 1109; Rav., Fung. Am.," 315, 316; Roumg., "Fung. Gal.," 1962; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 463.

On pales, chips, sticks, etc.

Fries names four varieties of this species, but, as no regard was paid by him to the sporidia, it would be vain to attempt any definition of these.

Name Versicolor, changing colour.
Common !

C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM.

5. Propolis chrysophaa. (Pers.)

Scattered, erumpent, orbicular; hymenium concave, reddish; border rather thickened, golden yellow; asci cylindraceo-clavate or cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, simple, 9-11 x 2μ; paraphyses filiform, slender, sometimes branched in the upper part, and slightly thickened at the apices.

Peziza chrysophaa-Pers., "Syn. Fung.," p. 674; "Icon. Pict.," p. 17, t. 8, f. 1, 2. Stictis chrysophaaPers., "Myco. Eur.," p. 335; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 966, t. 16, f. 19; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2226.

On wych-elm.

Aboutto of a line broad.

Name-Xpvoós, gold, paíos, dusky; dingy golden.
Batheaston! (Mr. C. E. Broome in Berkeley's herb.,

Kew.)

D. SPORIDIA CYLINDRICAL.

6. Propolis Rosa. Fckl.

Disc erumpent, nearly convex, white, size and form variable; asci cylindrical, stipitate; sporidia biseriate, cylindrical, bent, obtusely rounded at each end, 2 guttæ, hyaline, 24-26 x 7-8μ; paraphyses filiform, same length as the asci.

Propolis Rosa-Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 254.
Exs.-Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1276.

The sporidia in my specimen become 2 pseudoseptate; asci 118 x 12μ. Fuckel regards Exidia saccharina, Fries, as the conidial stage of this species.

On fallen branches of Rosa canina.

Name-Rosa, the genus to which Rosa canina belongs, on which it is found.

Trefriw, North Wales !

7. Propolis angulosa. Karst.

Gregarious, immersed and innate in the parenchyma of the bark, primarily covered, then seated on the epidermis, at first tinted with a somewhat blue colour, erumpent, often encircled by four obtuse triangular lacinæ; angular, or rarely angular or subrotund, plane; hymenium greyish-green, mealy; asci elongate-clavate; sporidia 8, elongate, curved, somewhat yellowish-green, hyaline, 16-23 × 3-4μ; paraphyses not very distinct. Propolis angulosa-Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 244. On branches of Salix.

Aboutto of a line broad.
Name-Angulosus, angular.
Trefriw, North Wales!

Disc immersed, encircled by a dehiscent, substellate, distinct, suberose, friable ring; asci cylindrical, slender elongated; sporidia 8, filiform. (Plate XII. fig. 74.)

The excipulum is reduced in this genus to a very thin membrane, which is wholly adnate to the matrix, at first closed, then open; the mouth encircled by a superficial, more or less persistent, usually white ring. The asci are very long and slender, splitting at their summits, allowing the still slenderer, nearly equally long, filiform sporidia to escape. S. Berkeleyana is sometimes superficial.

Inhabiting dead wood, herbaceous stems, etc.

Name After J. Schmitz, and uvɛía, a tribute of respect.