68 BRITISH FUNGI. 



Hystezium (Lophodermium) arundinaceum. Schrad. var. gra- 



mineum. 



H. cidmigemirn, var. /3. Fr. Sys. Mjc, ii., 591. 

 On leaves of grass. Forres. 



Var. culmigenum. Fr. Cooke Fungi Bj'ltt., L, No. 459. 

 On sheaths of reed. 



Nectria citiino-aurantia. Lacr. Grevillea, ii., p. \Qi. 

 Berk. ^ Br. Ann. N. II. No. 1492, t. 2, f. 8. 

 On willow twigs. Batheaston. Dec. 

 Sporidia oblong (•0003--00035 in.) -OOTS-'OOSS m.m. long. 



Sphsexia (Villosae) membranacea. J3. d: Br. Ann. N. H. 

 No. 1493, t. 2/. 9. 

 Semi-immersed, perithecia large, membranaceous, clad with 

 short flexible hairs; sporidia shortly fusiform, uniseptate. 

 On very rotten wood. Langridge. Ap. 



Sporidia (-0015 X "0007 in.), -035 X "0175 m.m., accompanied 

 by a minute flask-shaped Sphceronema, with a long slender neck and 

 minute globose spores ; probably its stylosporous state. B. ^ Br. 



Venturia Alchemillse. B. ^ Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1493.* 



Perithecia minute, crowded in small stellate spots, asci. short ; 

 lanceolate ; sporidia fusiform, uniseptate. — Asteroma AlchemillcB. 

 Grev. Fl. Ed., p. 369. Stigmatea Alchemillce, Cooke Handbook, 

 No. 2796. Fckl. Symb. Mijc.^p. 96. Fckl. Fungi, Rhen, No. 425. 



On leaves oi Alchemilln. 



Sporidia (-0005 in.), -0127 m.m. long. 



The following species are also figured on Plate 48, fig. 7; 

 Dendryphima ramosum, C, Plate 49, fig. 1 ; Puccinia nialvacearum, 

 2. P. Polygonorwn; 3. P. Lychnidearum ; 4. P. Mcehringiai; 5. 

 P . violaruni :, 6. P. Umbilici; 7. P. Saniculce ; 8. P. Primulce ; 

 9. P. compositarum ; 11. P. Prunoriivi ; and 12. P. 2\maceti, 

 all X 500 (see scale). 



Thelephora iniybacea. Fr. Ej/icr. ii., 636. 



Csespitose, soft, whitish then ferruginous — red, at length fuli- 

 ginous ; stems somewhat lateral, growing together ; pilei 

 imbricate, fibrous, margin dilated, at first fimbriate and whitish, 

 then entire and of one colour ; hymeninm inferior, papillose, sub- 

 floccose. Pers. Syn., p. 567 ; Bidl. Cham]), t. 483 /. 6-7, and 

 t. 278. 



On the ground in woods. Glamis. Rev. J. Stevenson. 



Exhibited at the Fungus Show at Perth. 



Geaster Michelianus. B. ^ Br. 



Mr. Worthington G. Smith has expressed an opinion in the 

 "Gardener's Chronicle" that Geaster cryp)torrhynclms, Kalch., 

 figured and described by Professor Hazslinszky in this journal, is 

 identical with the above species. There is a slight difference in 

 the size of the spores in Hazslinszky's specimen and the Geaster 

 Michelianvs found by Mr. Beech in this country, but that alone 

 would not be sufficient to maintain them as distinct. 



