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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



basis betes, Lev., from which it may readily be distinguished by the 

 naked eye from the darker colour of its pustules. 

 Kings Lynn, October, 1875. 



41. Fusidium cylindricum. Corda FucTcel Si,mb. 3Iycol.p. 371. 



On green but fading leaves of Lapsana communis, Mr. T. Brit- 

 tain, 1875. Agreeing with Continental specimens from Dr. Geo. 

 Winter, etc. 



42. Fusispoxium Kiihnii. FcU. Symh. My col. p. 371. 



Mycelium arachnoid, white, effused. Ilypha thin, branched, 

 septate, matted, then vanishing ; conidia in little heaps, subregular, 

 lunate, uniseptate, hyaline. 



Overrunning mosses, lichens, etc., on the bark of trees, fre- 

 quently about Kings Lynn, but by no means always in a fruitful 

 condition. 



43. Ramulaxia variabilis. FcTcl. Si/mb. Mycol. p. 351. 

 Caespitose, spreading, thin, white, on a brownish or greenish spot. 



Hypha fasciculate, flexuous, very short ; conidia hyaline, very 

 various, ovate, obovate, elliptical or cylindrical. 



On fading leaves of Digitalis lyurjmrea. Mr. T. Brittain. 



44. Vibzissia Guernisaci. Cr. Ann.des Sc.Nat. Vol. vii., 1857, c i. 

 Very small, 1-3 millm. in diameter, sessile, gelatinous, lenti- 



foi'm or turbinate, slightly brown beneath ; hymenium plane 

 or convex, white, greenish-yellow or ochery-yellow, pale grey or 

 bluish-gi'ey ; asci usually straight, containing 8 uncoloured 

 sporidia, which are long, filiform, curved, much attenuated, and 

 excessively slender; paraphyses numerous, articulated^ present- 

 ing one to three chain-like bifurcations, the terminal cells being 

 round or pear-shaped, and larger than the others ; sporidia about 

 •0038 in. long. 



On the inner side of dead bark of willow. Shrewsbury. Nov., 

 1875. 



45. Peziza (Huznaria) semi-immexsa. Karst. Myc. Fenn. l.,2>- ^^' 



Phillips, El. Brit., A^o. 60. 



Sub-gregarious, sessile, half immersed in the earth, at first sub- 

 spha^rical, then hemispha^rical, at length expanded, applanate, very 

 slightly pubescent, or becoming glabrous; margin crenulato- 

 unequal, pallid, ochraceous, or incarnato-testaceous, epitheciam 

 darker ; asci cylindracio-clavate ; sporidia ellipsoid, one or two 

 nucleate, ■016-'024 X "OO-'Oll m.m. ; paraphyses articulated; 

 apices curved and unequal. 



On damp earth. Shrewsbury. 



* Peziza (Sazcoscyphae) melastoina. So7i'. 



A single specimen was found at Whitfield, near Hereford, in 

 May, 1875. 



* Peziza (Sarcoscyphae) sepulta. F?: 



Terrington, St. Clements, Norfolk (C. B. P.). Nov., 1874. 



