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BRITISH FUNGI. 

 By M. C. Cooke. 



(Continued from p. 132 J 

 Peziza (XVIollisia) pteridis. A. <f S. " Bracken Peziza." 



Sessile, small, between waxy and soft, cap-shaped, internally dingy 

 yellowish, externally subgranulose, olivaceous, margin crenate. 

 Asci oblong, sessile; sporidia oblong-clavate, hyaline. — Alb. & 

 Schw. Consp. t. xii. /. 7. Fckl. exs. No. 2191. Tricliopeziza 

 pulveracea, Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 297. 



On stems of Pteris aquilina. Darenth (m. c. c.) King's Lynn. 

 (C. B. Plowright.) 



Sporidia (-0003--0004 in.) -008--01 m.m. long. Nearly black 

 when dry. The figure in Alb. & Schw. is much paler externally 

 than the specimens published by Fuckel with which ours agree. 

 Nectria Leightoni. Berk. " Leighton's Nectria." 



Scattered, minute ; perithecia ovate, yellow, or lurid-red ; sporidia 

 subcymbiform, triseptate, hyaline. — Berk, in Fungi Cubensis. Linn. 

 Journ. (1868), p. 379. 



On Larch, &c. Yorkshire. (Rev. W. Leighton.) 



Also found in Cuba. Sporidia (-001 in.) -025 m.m. long. 

 Nectria furfurella. B. % Br. " Mealy Nectria." 



Springing from a flesh-coloured effused stratum ; perithecia flesh- 

 coloured, subglobose, then collapsed, sprinkled with furfuraceous, 

 shining particles ; ostiolum distinctly punctiform. Sporidia ovate. 

 Paraphyses branched. Conidia ovate. — Berk. 4' Br. Annals Nat. 

 Hist., No. 1331, t. xx., f. 22. 



On cabbage stalks. Feb., 1869. 



Sporidia (-00015--0002 in.) -0035--005 m.m. long. Conidia 

 (-0002--0003 in.) -005--0075 m.m. long. 



Diatrype (Diatrypella) verruciformis. Ehr. var. Tocciaeana. 



Be Not. 



Pustula}form, subhemispherical, depressed at the apex, fuscescent, 

 soon naked. Perithecia 3-6, seldom more, spha?roid, with a short 

 neck. Asci clavate, very much elongated at the base, polysporous. 

 Sporidia minute, spermatoid. — De Not., Sfer. Ital., p. 30, £.31. 

 Fckl Sym. Myc, p. 233. Fckl. exs., No. 2059. Rabh. Fung. Eur. 

 No. 253. Cooke exs. No. 483. 



On Alnus glutinosa. King's Lynn. (C. B. Ploivright.) 

 Valsa cypri. Tul. " Privet Valsa." 



Perithecia 3-8 minute, circinating, buried in the inner bark, 

 globose, collapsing, ending in very short attenuated necks, which 

 are collected in a truncated disc ; ostiola small, scarcely emergent,, 

 black. Asci subclavate ; sporidia cylindrical, curved, simple, hya- 

 line. Sperm agonia unilocular, globose ; sperm atia cylindrical, curved, 

 issuing in oliyaceoua tendrils. — Tul. Carp. ii. 194, t. 2b, f. 10-20. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc^ p. 198. Fckl. exs., 1969. Nitschke Pyren. 

 Germ., p. 206. 



On twigs of Ligustrum vulgar e. Twycross. 



