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B. cj- Br. Ann. N II. no. 1317, 1. 18, /. 8. Basidiophora entospora 

 lio:e $ CornUj Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. v., vol. xi , t. 4. 



On Erigeron canadense. Wimbledon. June. Resting spores 

 echinnlate '001 in. diam. (M.J.B.) 



Peronospora Laxnii. Broun. " Dead nettle Peronospora." 

 Fertile threads short, 5-7 times dichotomous, branches attenu- 

 ated, patent, all more or less arcuate, ultimate ramuli often elongated 

 and acutely subulate. Conidia pedicellate, globose or ovoid, quite 

 obtuse, membrane pale violaceous. Oospores slightly brown. — 

 Rabh. Myc. ii., no. 325. De Bary Ann. Sc. Nat., 1863, xx., p. 120. 

 On Lamium purpureum, &c. Welshpool (Rev. J. E. Vize). 



Peronospora Ficariae. Tul. " Buttercup Peronospora." 

 Fertile threads small, usually 5-6 times equally or unequally 

 dichotomous, ultimate and penultimate branches arcuate, rerlexed 

 or inflexed ultimate often subulate. Conidia broadly ellipsoid and 

 obtuse, membrane pale violaceous. Epispore of Oospores pale 

 yellowish brown. — Tul. Compt. Rend. Jan. 26, 1854. De Bary, 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., 1863. xx., p. 117. Fchl. exs. no. 3. P. grisea Rabh. 

 Herb. My. no. 322. 



On Ranunculus repens. Welshpool (Rev. J. E. Vize). 

 Oidium aurantium. Cooke. " Orange Oidium." 

 Forming dense, irregular, effused, bright orange tufts, sometimes 

 several inches in length. Hyphasma creeping, branched, robust, 

 septate, surmounted by simple or branched moniliform threads, 

 which break up into subglobose or elliptical spores ; endochrome 

 granular. — Cooke exs. no. 448. 



On spent hops. Burton-on-Trent. Aug. 1871. (Edwin Brown, 

 Esq.) 



Endodesmia. B. ^- Br. 

 Forming little tufts ; flocci shining, glaucous, smooth, without 

 septa, slightly curved ; spores concatenate, uniseptate, eliptical, 

 appendiculate at each extremity. — B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1318 

 (1871). 



Endodesmia glauca. B. $ Br. " Glaucous Endodesmia." 

 Spores -0004--0005 in. long, -0002 in. wide.— B. $. Br. Ann. 

 N.II.no. 1318, *.xx./. 9. 



On cabbage stalks. Batheaston. April. 



Acremonium ranigenum. B. $ Br. " Frog Acremonium." 

 Stem composed of the aggregated flocci ; tips elongated, free ; 

 spores agglomerated, globose, echinulate, shortly pedicellate. — B. fy 

 Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1319, t. xviii./. 10. 



On dead frogs. Monkton Farleigh. Sept. 

 Stem composed of a multitude of septate threads, of a delicate 

 lemon-yellow, which diverge upwards and form a subglobose head ; 

 the threads give origin on all sides to globose spores crowded so as 

 to form little mass>es. Spores '0004 in. diameter. 



