No. 23.] [May, 1874. 



(SttvilUi, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



BRITISH FUNGI. 



By the Editor. 

 (Continued from Page 139J 



Puccinia Bistortae,. B.C. 



Spots none ; sori scattered, minute, numerous, rufous, hypo- 

 phyllous, suborbicular, spores ovoid or oblong, obtuse, rounded, 

 bright brown, stem very short. — De Can., Flor. Fr. v. 61. Corda 

 Icon, iv., /. 61. Libert. Exs., No. 91. Puccinia vivipara, Grev., 

 MSS. 



On leaves of Polygonum viviparum, near Mar Lodge. Aug , 

 1822 (Dr. Greville). On Polygonum Bistorta, near Liverpool. 

 (11. McL.) 



Uromyces excavata. B.C. 



Spots none or yellowish ; sori scattered, surrounded by the in- 

 flated epidermis ; spores brown, obovate, shortly pedunculate and 

 sessile. — Uredo excavata, D.C., Fl. Fr., vol. ii., p. 221 . Berk. Exs. 

 No. 119. Coeoma excavum, Lk. sp. ii., p. 31. 



On Euphorbia exigua, in company with JEcidium Euphorbhe. 



King's Cliff, Norths. 



Omitted in Berkeley's u Outlines" and Cooke's " Handbook," 

 through oversight. 



.JEcidium Parnassiae. Graves. 



Hypophyllous, spots pallid, cups laxly disposed in subrotund 

 tufts, yellowish-brown, urceolate, margin thick, nearly entire, spores 

 pallid. — Graves, in Duby. Bot. Gall., ii., 904. 



On leaves of Parnassia palustris. Near Glasgow. (Dr. Greville.) 



This will follow No. 1G2G in the " Handbook of British Fungi." 

 Synchytrium. Be Bary. 



Cellules often numerous, aggregated, involved in a common 

 membrane, forming sori, endochrome orange, delicately granulose ; 

 zoogonidia globose, rarely oval or oblong. — Rabh. Algce Europ., 

 ii., 284. 



Entophytal, with the habit of Uredo, seated in the parenchyma 

 of terrestrial plants. 



