TAB. CCCCIV. 



CLAVARIA RUGOSA. 



J. HE Rev. H. Davies of Beaumares gathered this 

 Fungus on bean-stalks in autumn. Stem simple, soon 

 spreading into irregular claviform divisions, ending ob- 

 tusely or furcated, the whole covered with brown scales, 

 whitish within, which, when magnified, appear irregu- 

 larly margined and cellular, perhaps containing the 

 rudiments of brown seeds. 



TAB. CCCCV. 



iECIDIUIVt RUMicis. 



VyOMMON in spring, in chilly damp places, on the leaves 

 of Runiex acutus. The specimen figured was gathered 

 between Battersea meadows and the hilly rise towards 

 the Wandsworth road. The beaut}^ if it. once attracts 

 the attention, is indisputable; but red and yellow in 

 low leaves are so usually blended with the decayed parts 

 of plants, that it is liable to confound usual observation. 

 It is often very conspicuous, and when examined closely 

 ■will be found to have a border commencing from the 

 vivid green of the leaf from pale to deeper yellow 

 passing to full red. In the more central parts of the 

 rather blotched rising circles are the little cups of fructi- 

 fication in circular clusters sunk in the red substance, 

 having a somewhat regularly lacerated spreading border, 

 \^hitish, with, darker granulae in orderly arrangement. 



