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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...epiphyllum. Fries, Summa Veg. Soand., p. 356; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 163; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 795, figs. 1-5, p. 771; Saco., Syll., viii., n. 925. Scattered, almost sessile, at first closed, then expanding, and becoming plane or slightly convex, with a delicate margin, 1-4 mm. across; excipulum entirely composed of hyaline, septate, closely interwoven hyphae 5-6 thick; smooth, pale ochraceoits, disc often becoming rufescent with age; asci cylindric-clavate, tapering into a rather long, elender pedicel, 8-spored; spores usually irregularly 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, hyaline, smooth, elliptic oblong or fusoid, ends obtuse, at first continuous and guttulate, ultimately 1-septate, straight or slightly curved, 14-20 x 4-5; paraphyses septate, about 2 thick, sometimes branched, tips tinged yellow. Peziza epiphylla, Pers., Tent. Disp. Fung., p. 72. On dead leaves of oak, beech, sweet chestnut, &c. Specimen in Eehm, Ascom., n. 11, examined. Helotium phyllophilum. Karst., Symb. c, p. 239; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 162 (not of Eehm, Kr.-FL, Disc, p. 796). Scattered or gregarious, closed and broadly clavate at first, then expanding and becoming slightly convex, or sometimes quite plane or even slightly convex, up to 1 mm. across; stem short, rather stout. up to 1 mm. long, often slightly curved, sometimes almost absent; glabrous, hyaline white or with a tinge of yellow; excipulum parenchymatous, the cells at the base minute, polygonal, 3-5 across, above arranged in a parallel series, very long and narrow, 10-18 x 3-4 / finishing at the margiu as free, distinct, curved and parallel hyphae of equal length; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate above, hyaline, cylindric-fusiform, straight or sligh...
