184 BRITISH FUNai. 



Spores (•0008-'002 in.) •02--05 m.m. or more long. Sometimes 

 a second is developed at the top of the first. — B. ^ Br. 



Cylindrosporium ficariae. Berk. 



Glceosporium Ficari(B. Cooke Handbook, No. 1413. 



Cylindrosporium niveum. B. & Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1459. 



Spots numerous, crowded (1-2 lines) often confluent, brown-mar- 

 ginate. Spores snow-white, oblong, uniseptate, shortly pedicellate. 



On Caltha palustris. New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 



Spores, when mature, (-002 in.) -05 m.m. long. 

 IHLyxotrichuxn ochraceum. B. ^ Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1475, t. l,f. 4. 



Yellow, then greenish, flocci elongated above, acute, ramuli 

 deflexed. 



On shavings of hurdle makers. Near Bath. Mar. 



Spores ("00015 in.) '0035 m.m. diam. When placed in alcohol 

 they adhere in clusters, as if surrounded by a membrane or in- 

 volved in mucus. — B. ^ Br. 



Fusidium geranii. West. Bull. d. Brux., 1851,^. 413. 



Spots brown, rounded, scattered, rather irregular, confluent and 

 undeterminate, occupying the greater part of the leaf. Spores 

 cylindrical-oval, with one or two nuclei or pseudo-septate. — Cooke 

 Fungi Britt., No. 685. 



On leaves of Gei-anium. King's Lynn (C. B. P.). 



Mucor pruinosus. B. ^- Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1495. 



Small, snow-white, vesicles globose, reticulated, spores irregular. 



Covering the soil of garden pots. Sibbertoft. Nov. 



Spores (•0007--0012 in.) -OITS-'OS mm. 



Thamnidiuxn elegans. Linh. Obs. i.,p. 45, t. ii.f. 45. 



Ascojjhora elegans. Corda Icon, iii., fig. 43. Cooke Hand- 

 book," No. 1881. 



On fowls' dung. 



Thamnidiuxn Van Tieghemi. B. <fc Br. Ann. N. H.. No. 1496. 



Fertile threads bearing at the apex a single macrosporangium, 

 lateral branches in the upper portion dichotomous, bearing micro- 

 sporangia, externally rough, containing 1-4, or more, spores. 



Thamnidiwn elegans, Van Tieghem, Ann. Set. Nat, ser. 5, vol. 

 xvii. p. 321 (not Corda). 



On cabbage stalks. 



Peziza diminuta. Roh. Besm. Ann. Set. Nat., 1847, viii., 185. 



Very small, scattered or crowded, shortly stipitate, externally 

 whitish, tomentose, at first globose, then open, hemispherical ; disc 

 concave, yellowish, or orange (-l^m.m.). Asci clavate-cylindrical, 

 sporidia oblong. Peziza apala, Fungi Britt. Exs., No. 287. 



On dry culms of Juncus. 



The specimens published as P. apala, B. & Br., in " Fungi 

 Brit.," No. 287, are, as far as my own copy is concerned, this 

 species, and not as named, the sporidia are very diff"erent. The 

 figure 183 of this volume belongs to the present species. It may 

 also be remarked here that Fez. palearum, Desm., is quite different 



