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curved ; sporidia oblong-obovate, unequally uniseptate, hyaline. — 

 Fries Sys. JIi/c, 515. Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 100. Cooke Fungi 

 Britt., No. 688. Fchl Exs , No. 568. 

 . On dead leaves of birch. Darenth. 



Sporidia (-0005 X -00025 in.), -014 X -006 m.m. 

 Sphsexella hedexeecola. Fr. 



Spots whitish, suborbicular or irregular, with a rather broad 

 brown margin, perithecia gregarious, minute, globose, opaque, be- 

 coming black, at length naked ; stylospores linear, slender, straight, 

 in distinct perithecia ; asci subcyliudrical ; sporidia minute, nar- 

 rowly elliptical, uniseptate, hyaline. — Fries Sys Myc. ii., 528. 



On green ivy leaves. Shere (Dr. Capron, 1873). 



Sporidia (-0004 in.), -01 m.m. long. 



In habit precisely like Septoria Hederce, of which it is undoubtedly 

 the perfect condition. 



Sphaezella atomus. Besm. 



Epiphyllous. Spots rufous, minute, somewhat orbicular ; peri- 

 thecia very minute, numerous, brown, innate, rather prominent, 

 collapsing and umbilicate. — Desm. Ann. des Sci. Nat., 1841, xv., p. 

 143. Fckl. Fungi Men., No. 819. 



On dead beech leaves. Darenth. 



Ventuzia glomezata. Cooke. 



Gregarious on discoloured spots, forming small tufts, hy|3ophyl- 

 lous ; perithecia minute, black, erumpent, membranaceous, crowned 

 about the ostiola with short rigid pointed black bristles ; asci 

 clustered, clavate ; sporidia fusiform, uniseptate, hyaline, cells 

 unequal. — Cooke Fungi Britt. (new series). 



On languishing but living leaves of Geranium clissectum, 



Eastbourne (C. J. Midler). Barnet & Micldeham (J/. C. C). 



At first resembling to the naked eye Stigraatea geranii, Fr., but 

 the distinct perithecia are recognizable under a lens. 



Epicrisis Hymenomycetum. — The publication of the new and 

 revised edition of this work will be hailed with pleasure by all 

 mycologists, inasmuch as the course of time had deprived the 

 former edition of much of its original value. Although confined 

 exclusively to European species, this work will be indispensable to 

 all who pursue the study of Fungi with assiduity. We could have 

 wished for more of the synonymy of the species, and a more extended 

 reference to figures, but perhaps this is too much to expect of the 

 author at his advanced age. — We may add with satisfaction, that 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley has commenced a work which will supple- 

 ment the present, and include all extra- European species of Hymen- 

 omycetes, and thus render complete what the illustrious Swedish 

 mycologist has only in part accomplished. Xooneis so competent 

 to undertake this as the authority who has taken it in hand, and 

 we anticipate that in little more than twelve mouths, if health should 

 be given him, we shall be in possession of the new Epicrisis. 



