362 FUNGI. [Podisoma. 



On living twigs of Juniperus com?/iimis. Nornianton, Rutls. JRcv. 

 T. K. Bonney, Archdeacon of Leicester. — Sent with Podisoma Juni- 

 peri communis, which militates against the assertion of Fries that the 

 two plants are not found in the same locality. Forming a very soft 

 gelatinous irregular orange mass, which dries up, so as frequently to 

 leave scarcely any trace. Sporidia ovate or subelliptic, filled with sub- 

 globose granules. 



151. Podisoma. Lk. Podisoma. 



Sporidia mostly uniseptate, stalked, stalks joined together 

 into a common stem, above agglutinated by gelatine into a naked 

 vertical clavariseform mass. — Name, 'ttou;, a footy and (Jw^aa, a 

 body, 



1. P. Juniperi communis, Fr. (common Juniper Podisoma) ; 

 orange clavariseform somewhat branched, stroma simple. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. V. 3. p. 508. — Tremella clavaricsfor?nis, Pers. Syn. 

 p. 629.— T. liyularis, Bull. t. 427. /. 1 T. SaUnm, var. 2. 



With. V, 4. p. 68. 



On living branches o^ Jimiperiis co?n?nunis. Nornianton, Rutls. Pev. 

 ArcJi. Bonney. — Specimens also exist in Mr. Sowerby's Herbarium. — 

 This species has the habit of Calocera. Sporidia very long, lanceo- 

 late, resembling, as Fries observes, two cones applied to each other by 

 their bases, filled with elliptic granules. 



2. P.foliicolumy Berk. (Ju7iiper-leaf Podisoma) ; epiphyllous 

 brown-black, masses subglobose or subelliptic, sporidia multi- 

 septate. 



On living leaves of Juniperus communis. Sent by 3Ir. Wilson to 



Dr. Hooker Masses subelliptic or irregular, dark-brown-black, con- 



sisting'of radiating, crowded, very slender, agglutinated filaments, each 

 bearing an elliptic or clavate, very obtuse sporidium, with 3 — 5 septa. 

 Some of the filaments are simply clavate and barren. This very inter- 

 esting species is a beautiful link between Podisoma and Puccinia. I 

 have seen very few specimens, all of which have the masses depressed ; 

 but as this is the case with other species of the genus in an early stage 

 of growth, it is possible that when further advanced, they might acquire 

 a clavate form. I refer it to the present genus rather than to Gymno- 

 sporangium, to which technically it is more easily referrible, on account 

 of the close resemblance of the sporidia to those of the following 

 species. 



3. P. Juniperi Sahince, Fr. (Savine Podisoma) ; red-brown 

 tuberculiform and clavate simple, stroma obliterated. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 3. p. 508— P. Juniperi, Nees,f. 15. Lk. Sp. 2. p. 127. 

 — Puccinia Jimiperi, Pers. Disp. t. 2. f. 1. — Tremella Sahince, 

 Dicks. \.p. 14. Eng. Bot. ^.710. With. v. A. p. 68. Purt. 

 2^2. n. 883. 



On living branches of Juniperus Sabina. Not uncommon. — Spo- 

 ridia obovate, uniseptate, figured, however, by Nees, as multiseptate. 

 If Sir J. E. Smith had ever examined a morsel of this plant, under the 

 microscope, he could not have entertained the opinion that it is a mere 

 gummy exudation. 



