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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI :— Part II. 



By W. B. Grove, B.A. 



(Tabs. 256, 257.) 



This list of new or rare British Fungi is, for the most part, 

 identical with a paper read before the Birmingham Natural 

 History and Microscopical Society, December 2nd, 1884. The 

 remarks which preceded Part I. (Journ. Bot., May 1884), are 

 applicable to this also. 



31. PistiUaria rosella Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 688. — Very minute, 

 subulate, smooth, roseate, with a pellucid base. 



On dead herbaceous stems : nettle, Sutton ; cow-parsnep, 

 Bradnock's Marsh (Wk.). August, September. 



Gregarious, 1-5-2 mm. high. 



*Cyphella faginea Lib. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 665 ; Buckuall, Fung. 

 Brist. Dist. v. No. 879, pi. 2, fig. 8. 



Globose, sessile, white ; distinguished by the long, crowded, 

 attenuated hairs, which are clothed with minute, prickle-like 

 crystals. 



On dead wood, Bradnock's Marsh (Wk.), July, Mr. Bucknall, 

 having seen my specimens, agrees with me that they are identical 

 with his. Hitherto recorded only on leaves or herbaceous stems, 

 but he believes that he has also found this species on dead wood. 



82. Puccinia soncJii Rob. in Desmaz. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 8, xi. 

 274 (1849) ; Winter, Pilze, i. 189 (1884) ; Grove, Sci. Gossip, xxi. 

 9, figs. 6-8 (1885). 



II. Spots obsolete ; sori small, punctiform, hypo- rarely epi- 

 phyllous, scattered or gregarious, occasionally in orbicular clusters, 

 round or oval, about 300 /x in diam., very convex; epidermis per- 

 sistent, dark brown below, hyaline and at length ruptured above ; 

 uredo spores oval, obovate, roundish or oblong, surrounded by a 

 very thick, warted, colourless membrane, pale yellow with a few 

 oily drops, 30-50 /x x 20-24 /a ; paraphyses forming a single ring 

 surrounding the sorus, just within the epidermis, dark brown, 

 shining, oblong-cylindrical, clavate above, inclining inwards 

 towards the spores, 80-100 p. x 12-15 [x. 



On seedling Sonchus arrensis, Hampstead (St.), October. Dis- 

 covered by Mr. H. Hawkes. The description is taken from his 

 specimens ; a few meso-spores were also observed. The sori 

 appear very dark below, owing to the paraphyses showing 

 through. 



^Puccinia variabilis Grev. Scot. Cr. Fl. pi. 75 (1824) — P. flosculos- 

 orwn Winter, Pilze, p. 206 (1884) p.p. 



I. CEciDiuJM Grevillei mihi. — CE. Taraxaci Grev. Flor. Edin. 

 444 (1824) non Ivunze et Schm. — (E. compositaram, var. Taraxaci, 

 Cooke, Haudb. 542 (1871); Micr. Fung. ed. iv. p. 198 (1878). 

 This species of Groville, which is obviously not a variety 

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