778 SPH^RIACEI, 



is inserted under the generic name proposed by Tulasne for some allied 

 specifis. — B. cb Br. 



There is a very pale honey-coloured variety, springing from a snow-white 

 suliiculum, which accompanies the darker form. — B. d: Br. 



Mr. Carrey's specimen on Polypnras hispidus probably belongs to this 

 species. Sporidia elliptical (not acuminate or flexuous) '0005 in,, Ciirr. Linn. 

 Trans, t. 57,/- 7. 



2338. Hypoxnyces rosellus. Tul. " Roseate Hypomyces." 



CoNiDiA. — Flocci aggregate, very much branched, white ; 

 branchlcts racemose ; conidia termmal, obovate-cylindrical, sep- 

 tate. — Dactylium dendj'oides^ Fr. S.M. \\\.p. 414. Eng.Fl.Y. p. 

 345. Tul. Carp. iii. t.Y.f. 1-15. Cooke Quek. Journ. (1870), t. 4. 

 Mucor dendr aides, Bidl.t . 504,/. 9. Trichothecium agaricinum, 

 Bon. Myc.f. 114-167. 



AscoPHORE. — Perithecia gregarious, globoso-ovate, papillate, 

 deep rose-red, seated on a paler tomentose siibiculum ; sporidia 

 short, oblong, imiseptate. — Tul. Carp. iii. p. 45, ii. t. 30, /. 6-9. 

 Sj)li. rosella, Fr. S.M. ii. ^9. 441. Eng.Fl. v. p. 259. Grev. t 138. 

 Nectriarosella,Berk.Outl.p. 393. Ann. N.H.no. 971*, L 17,/. 

 24 &. 



On Thelephora, &c. Appin, &c. 



The subiculum varies from pale to deep rose-red. Sporidia ('0005 in.) 

 *0127 m.m, long. 



Hypomyces chrysospeemus, Tul. is the ascigerous, or perfect condition 

 of which Sepedonium chrysos'permum is the conidia. Only the latter state has 

 yet been recorded in Britain. 



2339. Kyposnyces luteo.virens. Tul. " Greenish-yellow 



Hypomyces." 



Effused, thin, dirty yellow, with a greenish tint ; perithecia 

 emergent, ostiola crowded, brownish ; sporidia colourless, nar- 

 rowly almond-shaped. — Tul. Carp.in.p.bl ,t.Y\\\. f. 15,16. B. 

 ^- Br. Ann. N.H. (1866), p. 128. Hypocrea luteo-virejis, Fr. S.M. 

 ii. p. 339. A. ^ G. t. 6,/. 8. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 594, 1101*. 

 Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 46,/. 53. 



On Boletus. Laxton. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Perithecia dull yellow orange colour, imbedded in a woolly subiculum, 

 which produces yellow stylospores {Curr I. c.f. 53 c.) ; sporidia ("OOOS-'OOIO 

 in) •02--025 m.m. 



2340. Hypomyces Broomeianus. Tul. "Broome's 



Hypomyces." 



Perithecia ovate-acute, clad with a dense short wool ; asci 

 linear, sporidia linear-lanceolate, straight, uniseptate. — Tul.Carp. 



