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Helotium lab urn i, B. & Br. Breviter stipitatum, 

 cupulis extus villosis furfuraceis pallidis, margine inflexo; 

 disco ochraceo laeticolori; sporidiis fusiformibus quadrinu- 

 cleatis. 



On decorticated branches ofCytisus laburnum, or 

 beneath the cuticle, which it seems to throw off. Menmuir, 

 Rev. M. Anderson. 



Sporidia 0009 inch long. 



Mr. Phillips, who has paid great attention to the genus, 

 writes that the only species approaching it in the fruit is 

 Helotium salicellum, Fr. Karsten has a species, Pe- 

 zicula subliciformis, which has sporidia nearly the same 

 size and shape, with two nuclei, but is otherwise different. 



Stictis lecanora, Schm- & Kz« 



Var. pyri. Disco aterrimo. 



On the bark of pear-trees. Shrewsbury, W. Phillips, 



Nectria Keithii, B. & Br Peritheciis minutis, pal- 



Esq. 





lidis, congests, furfuraceis, ostiolo distincto; sporidiis fusi- 

 formibus inarticulatis ; conidiophoris punctiformibus confluenti- 

 bus carneo-griseis. 



On cabbage-stalks. Forres, Rev. J. Keith. 



Sporidia -0002- "00025 inch long, conidia '0002 inch. 

 ' Sphaeria (Byssisedae) Keitii, B. & Br. Peritheciis 

 caespitosis e floccis atris ramosis oriundis, apice calvis roseis 

 radiatis; ostiolo impresso punctiformi; sporidiis fusiformibus 

 triseptatis ad commissuras contractis. 



On a piece of cord. Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 

 W. Keit ; 



Perithecia rather large, the apex rose-coloured, with a 

 punctiform impressed ostiolum, and radiated, apparently 

 from the shrinking of the outer coat as they increase in 



size. Sporidia fusiform, triseptate, constricted at the division, 



each of which contains a large nucleus, '0012 inch long, 

 •00025 wide. _ 



It is possible that this very curious species may be of 

 exotic origin, as it occurred in a hothouse. The only 

 species to which it seems to bear any evident relation is 

 S. rhodosticta, B* & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, no. 1096. 



Ascomyces alni, B. & Bn Inflorescentiam deformans 

 sporidiis in ascis numerosis minoribus. 



On female catkins of alder forwarded by Dr. Masters. 



Differs from other species in the asci containing more 

 numerous sporidia; which are only # 0002 — .0003 inch long, 

 whereas in A. bullatus they are '0004 inch. 



