70 MESSRS. BERKELEY AND BROOME 
258. PATELLARIA LIGNYOTA, Fr. 
Some of the cups are shortly stipitate. Miss Е. М. Campbell, no. 15 Gippsland, 
Victoria (Р. M. Bailey, no. 347). 
259. HYPOCREA MEMBRANACEA, Berk. & Broome, n. sp.  Tenuissima membranacea 
alutacea, peritheciis sparsis pallide aurantiacis. 
Forming at first a very thin byssus, which gradually forms a membrane nowhere 
thicker than silver-paper, and thinner at the margin. Unfortunately the perithecia are 
not mature; but they are sufücient to determine the affinities. Parasitic on some 
Polyporus, Brisbane (Е. M. Bailey, no. 181). 
260. NECTRIA COCCINEA, Fr. 
A curious state of this species, the ostiola being depressed and not always central and 
dark-coloured ; the lateral ostiolum and compressed form may arise from the crowded 
condition of the perithecia. Brisbane (F. M. Bailey, no. 284). 
261. SPHAROSTILBE CINNABARINA, Tul. Carp. iii. p. 108. (Plate XV. fig. 18.) 
This differs somewhat from Tulasne’s plant in the more slender terete stems, which 
bear the globose heads of conidia, and rather resemble -his figure of S. gracilipes, 
from which, however, it is distinct in colour; from 5. aurantiaca it differs in the cylin- 
drical not compressed and dilated stems. Montagne describes his Stilbum cinnabarinum 
as having capillary stems, which so far agree with the Brisbane plant; but his figure 3, 
t. ii. in Ram. de la Sagra, Hist. Ins. Cube, gives a very inadequate notion of the latter. 
We therefore think it safer to leave our plant under Tulasne's name. Brisbane (Е. M. 
Bailey, no. 157). 
The heads of conidia are bright ochre-coloured, the stems pale red, darker below, rough 
or subtomentose, the perithecia granulated and collapsed; the asci and sporidia are 
immature, the latter ovate, and about 0:0003 inch long, and not yet septate. Plate XV. 
fig. 18, a group of perithecia with a conidiiferous head. 
262. PoRONIA PUNCTATA, Fr. Miss Е. M. Campbell, no. 19, Gippsland, Victoria (Е. M. 
Bailey, no. 336). . 
263. PonoNiA (EprPus, Mont. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Cent. ii. no. 85, et Cuba, p. 346, t. 18. 
fig. 2. Brisbane (Е. М. Bailey, no. 415). 
264. HYPOXYLON CONCENTRICUM, Grev., var. MINUS. 
А small form, black and shining; there seems to be no other difference from the 
common state. Brisbane (Е. M. Bailey, по. 274). 
265. HYPOXYLON SERPENS, Fr. 
There seems to be no character to distinguish the British plant from that of Fries. 
Brisbane (Е. М. Bailey, no. 197). 
266. SPHÆRIA ($ SuBTECT#) POLYSCIA, Berk. & Broome, n.sp. (Plate XV. figs. 19-21.) 
Peritheciis immersis apice impressis ; sporidiis ejectis ocellatis, sparsis vel confertis ; 
mycelio aterrimo, punctato. 
Scattered or immersed in dark, black, granulated mycelium ; the perithecia are de- 
pressed at the summit, and ocellated with the escaped oblong or sausage-shaped sporidia, 
