ENUMERATION OF FUNGI. 417 
* Upon the leaves of Hhrharta.” Uitenhage. December. 
The form of the asci in the Uitenhage specimens is very 
different from that of the plant published by Kunze, Libert, 
and Desmaziéres, in all of which they are linear, with a single 
row of sporidia. In the present variety I find the asci clavate, 
more or less swollen in the centre, and frequently apiculate, 
with a double row of sporidia. The sporidia are, in both, 
of the same form, or nearly so, being more or less oblong- 
ovate. In SpA. graminis b. Poarum, published by Fr. ** Scler / 
n. 282? the asci are much shorter and less truly linear, with 
the internal sac remarkably distinct. I have not been able 
in this to detect sporidia. On the whole, then, I consider 
myself justified in referring the Uitenhage specimens to the 
plant of Persoon. The specimens published by Mongeot 
and Nestler, which agree in outward form with the plant of 
Fries, are an abortive state of Uredo rubigo vera. I have 
not been able to find asci in my specimens of SpAeria 
Caricis, Fr.; the possession of which I owe to the kindness 
of Dr. Montagne. 
21. Batarrea phalloides, Pers. Zeyher, n. 114. (Tas. XXI, 
- fig. 1). 
On the ground. Uitenhage. April. 
I have long since shown reason to doubt whether* Bat. 
Gaudichaudii be really a distinct species from B. phalloides. 
In both the sporidia are, I believe, of the same colour, the 
stem is traversed by a filamentous cord, and the stem is not 
entirely confluent with the peridium, but attached only by a 
portion of its apex. The Uitenhage specimens compared 
with a very fine specimen of B. phalloides in the British Mu- 
seum, exhibit no difference as to the colour of the sporidia ; 
the only difference I can perceive is that in the exotic speci- 
mens the stem is certainly not attached by so large a portion 
of its apex as in the other. The colour of the sporidia in 
the European plant is not yellow-brown, as described by 
Smith but of a fine purple or red brown, like peroxide of 
* I have lately had an opportunity of seeing Montagne's specimens, and 
think the species distinct, Peres I am unable to pom out the distintive 
characters, 
