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Penicillium coffeicolor, B. & Br. Late effusum 



umbrinum, floccis brevibus crassiusculis ; sporis majoribus 

 globosis. 



On Pasteur's solution, South Kensington, Profs. Huxley 

 and Dyer. 



Resembling closely in colour Miainomyces fungi- 

 colus, Cda., but the spores are very different. The threads 

 are short and coarse; the spores varying much in form, 

 the most perfect smooth, with a large nucleus, and about 

 *0005 inch in diameter. 



Vibrissea micr oscopica, B. & Br. Minutissima; 

 stipite brevi nigro; capitulo griseo. 



On damp fir wood. Rannoch, Dr. Buchanan White. 



Scarcely visible without a lens. Stem very short, black; 

 head grey, leaving a cup-shaped depression when completely 

 washed off. Sporidia ejected, filiform. 



P. (Humaria) constellatio, B. & Br. Minuta, grega- 

 ria nee stipita, coccinea, convexa, sicca tantum cupulaef ormis ; 

 paraphysibus linearibus apice curvatis hie illic ramosis; 

 sporidiis globosis demum reticulatis. Fl. Dan. tab. 656. fig. 2. 



Occurring in little groups, but not crowded , by the side 

 of the road. Addington, Kent It has also been found near 

 Hereford by Dr. Cooke. 



Sporidia '0007 inch in diameter. Dr. Cooke has the 

 same thing of Hereford; and similar sporidia, but slightly 

 larger, occur in P. humosa, Rehm and Fuckel. P. hu- 

 mosa, Fr., however, has cups 2—4 lines in diameter, which 

 does not at all accord with our plant. The figure in 'Flora 

 Danica' gives exactly the habit; and the magnified plant 

 confirms our diagnosis. 



P. (Taphesia) rhabdosperma, B. & Br. Subiculo 

 tenui tomentoso, pallide fulvoj cupulis sparsis concoloribus 

 extus saturatioribus villosis, margine inflexo, hymenio laetiore ; 

 ascis lanceolatis, obtusis; sporidiis filiformibus. 



On dead wood. Leigh Down, Nov. 5, 1860. 



Sporidia '003 — 0035 inch long. Allied to P. caesia. 



P. (Mollisia) tripolii, B. & Br. Erumpens, aurantiaca, 

 margine nigrello cincta; sporidiis oblique ellipticis binu- 

 cleatis. 



On dead stems of Aster tripolium. King's Lynn, 

 Sept. 10, 1875, C. B. Plowright. 



Minute, erumpent, surrounded by the blackened cuticle, 

 which often splits into tooth-like laciniae. Hymenium orange. 

 Paraphyses flexuous, sometimes forked. Sporidia obliquely 

 elliptic, *0005 inch long, half as much wide. A curious 

 species, reminding one somewhat of P. fusarioides. 



