BRITISH FUNGI. 



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About the roots of Eucalypti. Edinburgh (Dr. Dickson). 



Sporidia "OlS-'Ol-i in. in. diam. 



Lycoperdon echinatum. Pen. 



Peridinm turbinate, substipitate, pale umber, or yellowish, rough 

 with rather distant, stout, spiny warts ; spores echinulate. — Pers. 

 Syn.,p. 147. Pers. Desp., p. 33. B. $ Br., Ann. N. II., 1375. 



In woods. Berks. 



Spores echinulate •0002--00025 in. diam. 



Scleroderma geaster. Fr. (Grevillea, i., p. 40). — B. Sf Br., Ann. 



N. U., 1375.* 

 Spores -0003--0005 in. diam. 



Geaster sac catus. Fr. (Grevillea, ii., p. 77, t. xx.) 

 By hedge banks. 



Ferichaena quercina. Fr. (Grevillea, i., p. 40.) 

 External peridinm crustaceous, becoming whitish ; internal very 

 thin, brow T nish-yellow, marked with impressed areolae ; fiocci few ; 

 spores yellow, globose, rough. — B. $• Br., Ann. N. II., 1376. 

 On ash. Batheaston, Shrewsbury. 

 Spores '0005 in. diam. 



Perichaena picea. B. Sf Br. 

 Peridium dark brown, hemispherical, at length circumscissilc ; 

 spores sub-globose, tawny and even, as well as the fiocci. — B. 4' 

 Br. Ann. N. II., 1377. 



On dead wood. Shrewsbury. 



Looks at first like a Perisporium. The colour of the spores 

 approaches that of those in the section Hyporhodii of Agaricus. 

 Sphaeronema aemulans. B. ,(• Br. 

 Perithecia sub-globose, arising from a sparse mycelium, neck 

 ciliate at the apex ; spores very minute, with Brownian movements. 

 —B. & Br. Ann. N. H., 1378, t. 7,f. 2. 

 Epping Forest. Feb. 



Perithecia '06 in. long ; spores -0001 -'0003 in. dia. Possibly 

 a pyenidiiferous state of some Melanospora. 



Uromyces Behenis. Lev. (Grevillea, i., \02.) 

 On Silene influta. Aug. 



Fuccinia Asteris. FcJd. (Grevillea, ii., p. 48.^) 

 On Aster tripolium. 



Fuccinia Malvacearum. Corda. 

 Hypophyllous, sori scattered, hemispherical, at first veiled in the 

 centre by the persistent epidermis, circumference naked, umbilicate 

 beneath ; spores densely crowded, ovoid-oblong, brown, even, 

 somewhat constricted in the middle, obtusely acuminate, on very 

 long hyaline pedicels. — Mont. Syll., p. 314. Corda Icones, \l, p. 

 4, t. \.,f. 12. Grevillea, ii., p. 47. 



On mallow leaves. Australia. Chili. 



Monosporium saccharinum. //. j' Br. 

 Hyphasma gelatinous, coffee-coloured ; fiocci short, erect, sub- 



