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peritliecia were less crowded and more depressed than in tlio figure 

 in Grevillea. 



41. Hypocrea placentula, sp. nov. — Euliypocrca, stroma- 

 tibus sparsis, teuuibus, discoideis, suborbicularibus, applanatis, 

 matrice facillime separaudis, albis, prime obtuitu polyporuideis ; 

 margine byssaceo, dein nudo ; peritheciis stipatis, miuutis, liyalino- 

 pallidis (mellois), rotuudatis, fere totis immersis ; ostiolis im- 

 pressis, punctiformibus ; ascis cylindricis, 80-90 /x x 3-4 {j. ; 

 sporidiorum mouostichorum articulis globosis, liyalinis, 2^-3 /x 

 diam. (Tab. 256, fig. 5). 



Ad basin culmorum Jnnci effusi, apud " Olton Reservoir " 

 (Wli.), September. Stromata 1-3 mm. lata. Adest simul status 

 conidicus stromatibus minus limitatis, candidissimis ; liyphis 

 teneris, repentibus, intricatis ; conidiis sporidiorum articulis simi- 

 libus, conglobatis, pulveraceo-adspersis. 



At the last moment before despatching this, I find described in 

 Grevillea, March, 1885 (p. 79), under the name of H. strobilina 

 Ph. et PL, a species so closely resembling mine that it differs, so far 

 as the incomplete description enables me to judge, only in the 

 habitat and the larger sporidia, which are stated to be " unusually 

 large, 5-6 x 5-5^ mm. " — a size which would be indeed 

 remarkable. 



42. Scirrhia Grovcana, Sacc. Mis. Myc. ii. pi. 9, fig. 18 (1885). 

 — S. stromatibus atris, linearibus, plurimis in utraque foliorum 

 pagina seriatim gregariis, bullatis, epidermide hyalina demum fissa 

 velatis, dein pulveraceis, 1-1^ mm. longis ; loculis subrotuudis, 

 pluriseriatis, confertis ; ostiolis papillatis, prominulis, opacis, 

 nigris, pertusis ; ascis fusoideis, sessilibus, utrinque obtusis, saepe 

 leviter curvis, fasciculatis, aparaphysatis, 8-sporis, QQ jj. x 12 /* ; 

 sporidiis distichis v.partim monostichis,oblongo-clavulatis, utrinque 

 (prtecipue apice) obtusis, 14-16 jx x 3^4 /a, uniseptatis, non v. 

 vix constrictis, nubilosis, hyalinis. 



In folhs Typhcc ktti/ulud, " Laugley Pool " (Wk.), August. A 

 Scirrhia rhnosu satis diversa, at forte ad Spharellam Ti/phcc, Auersw. 

 [nee Fuck., nee Plowr., nee Sacc.) saltem pro parte spectans. 

 Nondum enim fissa epidermide Sphffirellam aemulatur. In iisdem 

 foliis Leptospharia Michotii Sacc. 



43. Peziza asperior Nyl. Cooke, Grev. iii. p. 18G, pi. 44, fig. 216 

 (1875) ; Mycogr. 51 (1875). 



Cups aggregated in clusters, flat, bordered with a raised 

 margin, sessile, 1-lOth to l-8th inch diam. or more, orange- 

 scarlet, fading to yellow when dry. Sporidia globular, 20-22 jx, 

 echinulate, rather squarish in the ascus, appearing when ejected as 

 a shining white dust on the hymenium. Paraphyses narrowly 

 clavate above. 



On damp gravel, in a gravel-pit, between Hampton and Berks- 

 well (Wk.), August, October. My specimens differ slightly from 

 Cooke's description and figure, but Mr. Phillips states that they are 

 identical. The exterior of the cups gave rise to a few very 

 evanescent brownish hairs. 



