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BRITISH FUNGI. 

 By M. C. Cooke. 



Hyphomycetes. 

 Volutella roseolum. Cooke. " Rosy Volutella." 



Stem distinct, whole plant rose-pink ; stroma snbglobose, crowned 

 above with obtuse cylindrical spores, surrounded by long flexuous, 

 septate, attenuated, hyaline setse. 



On Bilbergia. Glasnevin. (W. S. Keit.) 



Evidently allied to Chcetostroma stipitatum, Corda. 



Volutella stipitatum. B. <£• Br. " Stipitate Volutella." 



Stem short, brownish, or none; stroma spherical, fleshy, covered 

 above with a stratum of rosy spores, and furnished with solitary, 

 rigid, septate, subulate, hyaline setse ; spores ovate-oblong, minute, 

 hyaline. — -Chcetostroma stipitatum, Corda Ic. m.f. 83. B. <$• Br. 

 Ann.N.H. no. 1312. Psilonia stipitata, Lib.exs. 287. 



On elder. Batheaston, March, 1869. 



" This belongs properly to the genus Volutella" — B. & Br. 

 Epicoccum micropus. Corda. " Small-stemmed Epicoccum." 



Gregarious ; tufts effused, black ; stroma subglobose, then de- 

 pressed, reddish-brown ; casidia emergent, clavate, transversely 

 septate, brown ; spores subglobose or tetrahedral, base depressed, 

 apodal or very shortly pedicellate, smooth, brown. — Corda Ic. hi./. 

 82. B. $ Br. Ann. N.H no. 1313. 



On decaying Lactarius deliciosus. Ascot. Oct. 

 Spondylocladium. Preuss. 



Hyphasma creeping, septate ; fertile flocci erect, simple or some- 

 what branched, septate ; spores homogeneous, cellular, laterally 

 opposite or verticillate. — Preuss in Sturm. D.F. vi. p. 105. 

 Spondylocladium fumosuxn. Preuss. " Smoky Spondylocladium." 



Tufts effused, black ; hyphasma branched, septate ; flocci simple, 

 septate, erect, pellucid, brown, bearing three or four spores in a 

 verticillate manner from the upper septa, spores subfusiform, brown, 

 with the endochrome twice divided. — Preuss in Sturm. D.F. no. 35, 

 t. 53. B. 4- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1314, t. 18, f. 7. 



On rotten sticks. Batheaston. March. Spores *001 in. long, 

 •0004--0005 in. wide. 



Graphium stilboideum. Corda. " Cabbage stalk Grapbium." 



Gregarious; stem erect, subulate, simple, black, opaque; head of 

 spores glutinous, whitish, then livid ; threads simple, whitish ; 

 spores ovate, oblong, pellucid. — Corda Ic. ii.,f. 69. B. § Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 1315. 



On cabbage stalks. Batheaston. April, 1869. Spores -0002- 

 •0004 in. long. 



Feronospoxa entospora. B. $ Br. " Clavate Peronospora." 

 Fertile threads simple, clavate, surmounted by a crown of apiculi, 

 bearing the ellipsoidal conidea, each of which papillate at the apex ; 

 endochrome granular. Oogonia yellowish, subglobose, tuberculate. 



