1 88 The Scottish Naturalist. 



On fading leaves of Menyanthes trifoliata. August and 

 September. 

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Common near Aberdeen and near Peterhead. J. W. H. Trail. 

 England, Belgium, France, Siberia. 



3046. S. Petroselini Desm. Ann. Mag. N. Hist. (Sacc. SylZ. Fung. 



II. 2876). 



On discoloured, brownish or pale, amphigenous spots ; 

 perithecia hemispherical, 70-130 diam., thin, brownish ; ostio- 

 lum prominent ; spermatia 25-50 by I3-2, filiform, straight or 

 slightly curved, hyaline ; continuous, or very faintly 3 or 4- 

 septate. 



In leaves of Petrosetinum sativum. 

 East. — — Tay Dee — — — — 



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Aberdeen. J. W. H. Trail. Glamis. J. S. (in Berkeley's 



Herbarium at Kew). 

 Europe. South America. 



3047. S. dolichospora Trail, sp. n. 



Perithecia scattered, subdermal, oval-lenticular, 280 by 240, 

 opening by a prominent pore, pale brown, pore in a darker 

 ring ; spermatia very long, filiform-fusiform, 120-130 by i-i\, 

 flexuous or much curved, hyaline but faintly yellowish, pluri- 

 guttulate, or septa very faint, but numerous (9 to 12). 

 Obs. This species differs from all allied forms in the length of 

 the spermatia, and in their tenuity. 8. lacustris Sacc. and 

 Thiim. approaches nearest it, but has spermatia 75-85 by 



In dead drifted stems of Scirpus lacicstris. May 



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Loch of Park, not far from Aberdeen. J. W. H. Trail. 



3048. Rhabdospora pleosporoides Sacc. Mich. I. p. 120 (Sep- 



toria), var. rubescens Karst., Symb. Myc. XV. p. 151, Sacc. 

 SyZZ. Fung. III. 3199. 



Perithecia on a dull reddish spot on the dead stems, sub- 

 dermal, globoso depressed, ostiolum short ; spermatia slender 

 fusiform, usually curved, 25-30 by i|-2, pluriguttulate. 

 On dead stem of Angelica sylvestris. May 



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