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hyphasma, or emersed and sessile. Asci long and narrowly linear or obovate, 

 eight spores (rarely 2-4), commonly destitute of paraphyses ; spores uniser- 

 iate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, often acute, rather shortly 

 apiculate, rarely obtuse, even, granular, mostly bilocular, and a little un- 

 equal-sided, oozing out at length, in little irregular pallid tendrils. — Talasne. 



{Fig. 372.) 



2336. Hypomyces ochraceus. Tul. " Ochrey Hypomyces " 



CoNiDiA. — Tufts effused, woolly, white ; flocci erect, septate, 

 pellucid ; branches and branchlets subulate, patent, yerticillate ; 

 conidia oblong, diaphanous, attached by an apiculus to the tips 

 of the branchlets. — Verticillium agaricinum, Corda. Ic. ii.f. 68. 

 Botrytis agaricina, Ditm. Sturm, t. 61. Grev.t. 126. 



AscoPHORE. — Crowded, perithecia roundish, yellowish, im- 

 mersed, with a short, thick, obtuse, exserted mouth, seated upon 

 an orange subiculum ; sporidia oblong, lanceolate, uniseptate, 

 constricted, mucronate at each extremity. — Tul. Carp.m.. p. 41, 

 t. vi./. 19, 20, t. vii. B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. (1866;, no. 1175*, t. 5, /. 

 35. Hypomyces armeniacus, Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. (1860), xiii. j9. 12. 

 Cryptosphoeria aurantia^ Grev. t. 78. Curr. Linn. Trans, t. 57, /. 

 6. 



On decaying fungi. Near Edinburgh. 



Perithecia minute, densely crowded, and appearing at first like broad, irre- 

 gular, orange-yellow spots, which spread over the decaying lamellse of 

 Agarics, and pores of Boleti ; the mouths of the perithecia protrude through 

 a reddish-orauge tomentose substance which forms a thin close web, and 

 closely surrounds the base of the mouths, which are short and very obtuse. 

 The perithecia, while young, are succulent, but at length become half ex- 

 serted J sporidia elliptical-oblong. — Orev. " This is, in all probability, Cryp- 

 tomyces aurantia, Grev. t. 78.'" — B. d:Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1175*. 



(Fi^. 372.) 



[Blastotkichum puccinioides. Preusg. Sturm, xxv. t. 11, is a state of 

 this or some allied species, and has occurred at Batheaston.] 



2337. Hypomyces aurantius. Tul. " Orange Hypomyces." 



Perithecia gregarious, subrotund, papillate, orange-red, emerg- 

 ing from the effused subiculum ; sporidia elliptical, uniseptate ? — 

 Tul. Carp. ill. p. ^^. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. (1866), p. 127. Ann. 

 N.H. (1865), no. 1102. Nectria aurantia, Berk. Outl. p. 393. 

 S ph. aurantia, Eng. Fl.v.p. 259. Sph. aurantia, Fr. S.M.ii.p. 

 440. Fers. Ic. ^ Desc: 1. 11,/. 4. Nees.J.362. 



On Polyporus squamosus <^ Ag. ostreatus. Gopsal — Flintshire, 

 &c. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



As there was some doubt about Sphceria aurantia, Eng. Fl. being the 

 true plant of Persoon, it was omitted in the "Outlines." It has now, how- 

 ever, been found in abundance in Flintshire, on Polyporus sqicatnosus., and it 



