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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



By Wm. Phillips and Charles B. Plowright. 



(with plates 24 and 25.) 



We propose in this and subsequent papers to record the occur- 

 rence of such species of fungi not hitherto found in Britain as may 

 come under our own immediate notice ; also the occurrence in new 

 localities of some of the rarer British species, which have already 

 appeared in the invaluable series of papers by Messrs. Berkeley 

 and Broome, in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History." 



1. Diplodia Syringae. Awd. Fckl. Symb. Mycol., p. 395. Cooke's 

 exs., Cent vii. 



On Syringa vulgaris. Shrewsbury. 



2. Ramularia armoraciae. Fckl. Symb. Mycol., p. 361. Tku- 

 men Herb. Mycol. iEconom., No. 27. On the leaves of horseradish. 



North Wootton, June, 1873. 



3. Ascochyta armoraciae. Fckl. Symb. Mycol., p. 388. Thumen 

 Herb. Mycol. iEconoin., No. 23. Cooke, Exs., Cent vii. 



On horseradish leaves, North Wootton, Sept., 1874. Obviously 

 a more advanced condition of the preceding. 



* Thecaphora hyalina. Fing. On the fruit of Convolvulus 

 sepium. King's Lynn. Dr. J. Lowe. C. B. P. 

 • 4. Helminthosporium arundinaceum. Corda. Ic. in. 10, tab. 

 2, fig. 25. Fckl. Symb. Mycol., p. 354. 



On the leaves of Phragmites communis. King's Lynn, August, 

 1873, abundantly. Cooke, Exs., Cent vii. 

 5. Peziza (Phialea) Strobilina, Fr., S.M.il, p. 125. Eabh. F. E., 222. 



Krst. Pez. Asc, p. 30. Nyl. Fez. Feim., p. 41. 

 Pyriform, firm, cupula concave, pallid, rufescent, margin tumid, 

 entire ; stipes short, black. 



Sporidia oblong or fusiform, simple, -0,008--0,012 X -0,0025 

 millim. Nyl. 



On fir cones. Derbyshire. (Mr. J. Rennv.) North Wootton. 

 C. B. P. 



* Ascobolus viridis. Chirr. Lin. Trans, xxiv., p. 154. 

 On a clay bank, Wrekin, Shropshire. July, 1873. 



6. Asco"bolus atro-fuscus, n. s. (A. viridis, Boud. Ann. Sc. Nat.. 1SG9. 

 x.,f.5,/.4.?) 



Sessile, crowded or scattered, blackish brown, concave, then plane, 

 margin crenulate, externally furfuraceous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 broadly elliptical, obtuse, hyaline, then purple, at length brown, 

 epispore granulated or verrucose; paraphyses linear, occasionally 

 branched. Sporid. -001 X -0005. 



On a charcoal bed, the Wrekin, Shropshire. July, 1873. 



We have little doubt of this being the same plant as that re- 

 ferred by M. Boudier (1. c.) to A. vii'idis, Curr. ; it differs, how- 



