118 SOME INDIAN FUNGI. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXIII. 



Fig. 1. Threads and spores of PelUcularia Koleroga X 500. 

 ,, 2. Portion of thread and spores further magnified. 

 „ 3. Pseudospores of TJromyces sphccropleum X 500. 

 „ 4. Pseudospores of TJromyces heterogenitm X 5C0. 

 „ 5. Spores of Ustilago pulveracea X 500. 

 „ 6. Pseudospores of Puccinia K^irdistani X 500. 

 „ 7. Pseudospores of Puccinia rostrata X 500. 

 ,, 8. Portion of stem with sori of Uromyces Hobsoni. 

 „ 9. Pseudospores of Uromyces Hobsoni X 500. 

 „ 10. Spores of Olasterisporium maculatum, X 500. 

 „ 11. Threads and spores of Glenospora didyma X 500. 

 „ 12. Discoid body accompanying the threads of Glenospora x 500. 

 „ 13. Conidia and peridium of Capnodium Mangiferum X 500. 

 ,, 14. Asci and sporidia of same X 500. 

 „ 15. Free sporidia of Ccupnodium mangiferum X 500. 



NEW AND EARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



By Wm. Phillips and Charles B. Plowright. 



[Continued from Vol. III., p. 126, ivith plate 62.] 



31. Hygrophorus mucronellus. Fr, Hymen. Euroj). p. 418. Fj'. Ep. 



jy. 331, 



Fragile, pilens pubniembranacens, conico-campanulate, acute, 

 smooth, bright-red, becoming pale, stem fistulose, thin fibrous, 

 somewhat silky, base white, gills dcciirrent, triangular, thick, 

 yellow. 



In a grass field by the sea bank. Kings Lynn, Dec., 1875, in 

 -company with H, russo-coriacetis . Probably not uncommon. 



32. Paxillus paradoxus. {KalcM.) Berk. Kalclth. Fmig. Hung. t. 16, 



Spores -0006 x "0002 in., with a nucleus at each end. 



The Rev, M, J, Berkeley considers thi^ik, Paxillus. Wrekin, 

 Salop, Sept., 1875. 

 * Sistotrema confluens. Pcrs. 



A curious and interesting fonn of this plant occurred at Here- 

 ford this year, it was for the most part stcmless, incrusting sticks, 

 leaves, fragments of earth, etc., extending into the holes made by 

 the burrowing of some animal, either a mole or a rat, some of the 

 best developed specimens growing subterraneously upon the roof of 

 the burrows. 



33. Steieuia pini. Fr. Hymen. Evrop. p. 643. Fr. Fp. p. 5C3. 

 Resupinate coriaceo-cartilaginous peltato-adnate submarginate, 



4?mooth beneath, pallid, at length bullate, hymenium purj^le, flesh- 

 coloured, then brownish, pruinose. 



Growing upon the under side of dead branches of Piniis 



