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BRITISH FUNGI. 



lucid, faintly and very rarely septate. Asci clavate, fasciculate ; 

 sporidia lemon-shaped, colourless ; endochrome granular, or nucleate. 



On old sacking. King's Lynn. (C. B. Plowriglit.) On old rag 

 and paper. Highgate (M. C. C.) 



The threads somewhat resemble those of Chcetomium murorum, but 

 are stouter, less rigid, and more transparent, the sporidia are larger and 

 colourless (-0004--0006X -00025-00035 in.) 013--017 X -006--009 

 m.m. 



Chretomium funicolum. Cooke. '' Twine Bristle Mould." 



Perithecia scattered, sub ovate, black; hairs of the vertex very 

 long, dichotomous or simple, erect, slender, acute, black; sporidia 

 lemon- shaped, dingy -brown. — Cooke, Microscopic Fungi, 3rd Ed. 

 App. p. 221 . 



On twine. British Museum. (W. Carruthers.) 



This species is most closely allied to C. datum, but much smaller 

 and neater. It is wholly black, and without the fibrous base of C. 

 datum. The hairs are more delicate, and not half the diameter, 

 and the sporidia are scarcely more than half as long or broad. 



HOBKIRK'S "SYNOPSIS." 



While I express my gratitude to Mr. Hobkirk, for his well-con- 

 densed and exceedingly handy " Synopsis of the British Mosses," 

 the general accuracy of which is unimpeachable, I would at the 

 same time call attention to an error into which he has been led, 

 and which is likely to be propagated, unless corrected. 



In Dr. Braithwaite's papers on " Recent Additions to our Moss- 

 Flora," the discovery, in Britain, of Seligeria tristichais ascribed to 

 the Rev. J. M. Crombie; and Mr. Hobkirk, following Dr. Braith- 

 waite, ascribes it to the same gentleman. Long ago, in the 

 " Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society," the discovery 

 of this moss was assigned to Miss Mclnroy, a lady who has been 

 very quietly but most successfully investigating the Moss- Flora of 

 Athole, and whose important discoveries in that quarter are well 

 known to Scottish botanists. The first specimens of Seligeria 

 tristicha gathered in Britain, which Wilson saw or heard of, were 

 those sent to him by Miss Mclnroy in 1859, and they were accom- 

 panied with Seligeria pusilla, and Anodus from the same quarter, 

 but the first specimens gathered by Miss Mclnroy were gathered a 

 year previously, i.e., in 1 858. 



I may also mention that I myself, not Mr. Hunt, as stated in the 

 " Synopsis," was the first to make known the existence of Webera 

 Briedleri as a British species, and that I gathered it in clover, &c, 

 so early as 1867, though then I was not aware of the difference 

 between it and Bryum Ludwigii. 



New Pitsligo. John Fergusson. 



Feziza schizospoxa. Phillips.— The measurement of the spori- 

 dia in this species was incorrectly stated in the description. It 

 should have been -0007 in. 



