296 NOTES ON BRISTOL FUNGI. 



are noted, Tremella terrestris, B., being new. This order is 

 interesting from its various forms of fruit and its doubtful 

 affinities. It has been beautifully illustrated by M. Tulasne in 

 a paper in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 



Of the naked-spored Hypogaeous fungi, 12 belong to Crotch's 

 list out of 1 8 in Cooke, all of which were new to Britain at that 

 timej and 5 found only in the Bristol district. 



Of Phalloidei, Phallus imjmdicus, L , and Cynophallus camnuSy 

 Fr , occur in Leigh Wood. There are only 4 British species in 

 Cooke's list. These plants are remarkable for an odour resembling 

 that of carrion : the former may be traced for many yards by this 

 means. 



Of the Trichogasters or Puff-balls, Crotch gives 8 out of 27 

 British. The little order Nidulariacei is represented in our 

 district by 4 out of 6 British species. 



Of Myxogasters we have 10 only recorded out of more than 

 100 in Cooke's book, the paucity arising, probably, more from 

 the difficulty of determining species than from any dearth of them 

 in the locality. For a like reason in the order Sphseronemei we 

 find 16 species only out of 18C described in Cooke. In this order 

 some long genera were left undescribed from want of means of 

 discrimination, as was the case with the genus Septoria. Tulasne 

 has demonstrated that many species of the order are merely 

 diiferent forms of other genera ; thus he considers Septoria 

 prineep'i B. and Br. as a stylosporous (naked-spored) state of 

 Massaria ehurnea, Tul., the former belonging to the Spaeronemei, 

 the latter to the Spha3riacei. 



Of the order Melanconiei and Torulacei we find about 22 out 

 of 69 of Cooke's list. Of fungi growing on living leaves, as 

 Puccinia, ^cidium, and allied genera. Crotch gives about 12 

 species only out of 182 of Cooke, but of late almost every plant 

 is regarded as tenanted by a distinct parasitic species, a view 

 which must remain open to great doubt, as in many cases the 

 only discernible difference is the fact of their inhabiting different 

 flowering plants. 



