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Badhamia fulvesccns. Coo'ke. 



Peridia sessile, subglobose, scattered, or 3-6 together, tawny- 

 ochre, towards the base clad with a delicate white pubescence ; 

 spores pale brown, minute, ovate. 



On old sacking. Dnpplin Castle, Perth. 



Spores (0003 in.) -0075 m.m. diam. 



The cysts investing the spores are quite distinct. I am indebted 

 to Mr. C. E. Broome for examining tliis plant, and he coincides in 

 the opinion that it is undescribed. 



Ustilago intermedia. Schroter. 



Produced within ttie florets, violet-brown ; spores subglobose, 

 ovate, or shortly elli[)tic, rather large ; epispore minutely spinu- 

 lose. — Schroter in Rahh. F. Eur. No. 1696. 



On flowers of Scabiosa. Scotland. Eev. J. Fergusson. 



The spores are larger and darker than in JJ . floscidorum ; in the 

 latter being 'Ol m.m., and in the present species 'OlS m.m. 

 Isaxia spumaxioides. Coolie. 

 Densely cajspitose, white, palmate or infundibuliform ; apex 

 crispate, lobed, or serrate, attenuated downwards into a slender 

 stem, more or less connate; spores subglobose, minute. 



On bark. Knowsley. Rev. H. Higgins. 



A very curious and distinct species, not unlike Spumaria alba at 

 a superficial glance, forming large patches an inch broad. Spores 

 *00-i-"00o m.m. diam. 



Clastexispoxium vexmiculatum. Coo'ke. 



Effused, forming a thin black stratum on the wood; mycelium 

 creeping, branched or simple, septate, brown ; spores erect, often 

 fasciculate, cylindrical-fusiform, dark brown, multiseptate, straight, 

 curved or geniculate, obtuse and pale at the extremities (•15-"2 

 m.m. long). 



On oak wood. Hereford. Mr. Griffith Morris. 



This interesting black mould is certainly congeneric with 

 Clasterisporium caricimim, Schweinitz, and resembles Helmintho- 

 sporium without flocci, the spores being seated on the mycelium. 

 Another rather aberrant form we have received from J. B. Elhs, 

 New Jersey, U.S., to which the name of Clasterisporium subulatum, 

 C, has been given, in which the apices of the spores are subulate. 

 Clasterisporium pedtinculatum, Peck, is = Helminthosporium atteiiu- 

 atum, C. & P. 



Vixgaspoirium. — Dr. Saccardo has pointed out that the genus 

 characterised under this name in " Grevillea"is identical with Cei^co- 

 spora, Freis, and that Vii-gasporium maculatuni is equal to Cerco- 

 spora Rtstdce, Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 353, and Fung. Rhen. No. 

 1632. Such being the case the other species will bear the name of 

 Cercospora clavata. 



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