\M> RARE BRITISH 



IS? 



ever, so much in sporidia, colour, and habitat, from Mr. Carrey's 

 species thai we venture to consider it distinct. 



Plate 24, fig. 1. a. plants nat. bum ; b. section of one enlarged; 

 c. ascus and paraphysea magnified; d. Bporidia. 



* Ascophanus carneus. Var Cuniculi. Boud. Ann. So. Nat., L869, 



/. L2,/. 39. 



This differs from the normal form in its dirty-orange or orange- 

 flesh colour, rather .-mailer Bize, paraphyses always colourless, and 

 growing on rabbits' dang. SporicL -UOUG x '0004. 



Near Shrewsbury, Dec, 1873. 



7. Cenangium Laricinum. FcM. 



Pycnidia. Cenangium bullatum. Alb. and Schw. Consp., p. 344. 

 c. Pina8tri, b. monstrosuw, Fr. Sys. M. it., />. lb'4. 



Cupula round, closed, then perforated, black, rngulose, stylospores 

 long, filiform, slender, curved. 



Ascophore. Fckl. Bym. Myc.,/>. 270. 



Scattered or csespitose, as in Oen. Pinastri, but totally black ; 

 asci rilled with sperraatia-like corpuscules. 



On larch poles. Near Shrewsbury. Nov., 1873. 



8. Sphaeria (Sordaria) discospora. Awd. — Perithecia scattered, 

 minute, globose, with an obtusely conical ostiolum, covered by dense, 

 black, short, rigid seta?, asci cylindrical, somewhat truncate at the 

 apex, sporidia involved in mucus, subrotund discoid, dark-brown or 

 Mack, -012 m.m. (-0004 in.) in diameter, "003 -005 m.m. (-001 in.) 

 thick. Niessl. Beitrage der Pilze., p. i'2. T. vi., fig. 44. Fckl. 

 Symb. My col. Nachtrag n., p. 43. Winter. Deutsch Surd, p. 19, 

 «.vm.,/. 8. 



On rabbits' dung. North Wootton. Dec, 1873. Known im- 

 mediately by its disc-shaped sporidia. 



Plate 25, fig. 2. a. plant magnified; b. asci and paraphyses, more 

 highly magnified ; c. sporidia separated from the ascus with their 

 mucus envelope. 



9. Sphaeria (Sordaria) breviseta. Ithh. 1 mi 



Sphaeria (Sordaria) conica. Fold. j lllesc tw0 «P«™* 



have been united by Heir Winter in his monograph of Sordaria, 

 as species and variety (coronataj of De Bary's Sordaria curvula. 

 Not having seen authentic specimens, Ave think it best simply to 

 record their occurrence without binding ourselves to any generic 

 name. It is worthy of remark, however, that the presence or 

 absence* of one or both the appendages, even in the same perithe- 

 cium, is liable to considerable variation. Appended is a list of refer- 

 ences bearing upon the plants in question: — Sordaria curvula, De 

 Uary. Morphol. der Pilze. p. 209 ; Sphceria fimiseda ( De Not.), 

 Fckl., Fung. Rhen., No. 2087; Sordaria appendiculata, Awd.; 

 Cercophora conica, Fckl. Symb. Mycol., p. 245 & 243 (Sub. Matin- 

 vemia breviseta, Fckl.); Ixodiopeis fimicola, Kins., Fungi Fenn., 

 No. ( J55 ; Schizotheciurn Umicolum, Corda, Icones, t. ii., p. 29; 

 Hedwigia, No. 11, 1873. Winter, Deutschen Sordarien,;). 38, tab. 

 xi., fig. 22. 



