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shining, brownish-black ; lips broad, convex, opening with a longi- 

 tudinal straight fissure, more or less separating, at length broken 

 or collapsing ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia filiform, hyaline. — Alb. 4' 

 Seine, t. 10,/. 3. Duhij Hyst.,p. 44. 



var. Rhododendri. Ces. = Lophodernit'um Rhododendri, Ces., 

 in Eabh. Fung. Eur., No. 458. Rehm. Ascomy, No. 126. 



On leaves of Rhododendron. Shere (^Dr. E. Capron). 

 Ittelanconis modonia. Tul. 



Conidia nestling beneath the bark, at length erumpent, olive- 

 brown, oblong-elliptic, 6-septate. 



Ascophore — Perithecia globose or depressed, few together 

 arranged in circles penetrating the bark, with rather short ostiola, 

 and forming small pustules; asci cylindrical ; sporidia biconical, 

 miiseriate, hyaline. — Cooke Fungi Britt., No. 681. Tulasne Sel. 

 Fung. Carp, ii., p. 141. Fckl. Syni. Myc, p. 188. Fckl. Exs., 

 2006. Valsa biconica, Curr. (" Handbook," No. 2191). 



On dead twigs of Castanea vesca. Darenth. May. 



Sporidia -0014 X -0003 in. -036 X '01 m.m. 

 Cucuxbitazia Euonymi. Cooke. 



Gregarious, subcuticular ; perithecia subglobose, at length some- 

 what ennnpent, often wholly concealed by the cuticle, except the 

 small scarcely prominent ostiola ; asci clavate, sessile ; sporidia 

 elongated, elliptical, constricted in the middle, multicellular, 

 brown. — Cooke,Fungi Britt., A^o. 683. 



On twigs of Eitonymus, often with Sphce?'ia Laschii. Mickle- 

 ham. June. 



Sporidia (-001 in.) '025 m.m. long, resembling Cuciirbitaria 

 spartii, Not. 



Lophiostoma Hedexae. FcM. 



Perithecia scattered, nestling beneath the epidermis, rarely free, 

 of medium size, globoso-compressed, quite black; ostiola promi- 

 nent, broadly compressed, semi-orbicular, somewhat crenulate ; 

 asci elongated, sessile ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, curved, 4 nu- 

 cleate, then triseptate, hyaline. 



On ivy twigs, Eastbourne (C. J. Midler^. 



Sporidia (-0007 X '0015 in.) -02 X -004 m.m. 



Sphseria (Diapoxthe) Euphozbiae. Cooke. 



Forming irregular, determinate, elongated black patches ; peri- 

 thecia nestling beneath the blackened cuticle, which is slightly ele- 

 vated by the ostiola ; asci subcylindrical ; sporidia subfusifonn, 

 quadrinucleate, hyaline. — Cooke Fungi Britt., No. 674. 



On dead stems of wood spurge. Darenth. May. 



Sphaeiria (Biapozthe) scobina. Nke. 

 Stroma broadly eftused ; perithecia small, nestling in the inner 

 bark, aggregated, subglobose or rather compressed ; ostiola cylin- 

 drical, piercing" the cuticle; asci narrowly fusiform, obtuse, quadri- 

 nucleate. — Nke. Pyr. Germ., p. 293. Fckl. Fungi Rhen., No. 2258. 

 Cooke Fungi Britt., No. 673. 



