NEW OR [NOTEWOllTUr TUXGI 83 



trum fillfornie attenuatis, rostro incluso 40-00 /x longis, parte iii- 

 feriore elliptica 15-22 x 2^-4 /x, achrois, siepe guttulatis, dein tenuis- 

 sime 1-septatis, sporophoris rectis brevibus suft'ultis. (Fig. 1.) 



Hah. in stipitibus emortuis Polygoni sachalinensiSy in borto 

 culti, Sutton Coldfield, mensibus Jun. Jul. per annos plures reperta. 



Tbis species presents a certain resemblance to Kellermania I*o1ij- 

 (joni Ell, & Ev. {op. cit. 1886, p. Ill), and to K. Bumlcis Fautr.'& 

 Lamb, (in llev. Mycol. 1897, p. 141; Sacc. Sjll. xiv. 964), but 

 differs from the description of both in the thick and many-layered 

 (not membranaceous) pycnidial wall. In the type species K. yucci- 

 gena, moreover, the subulate beak is a distinct and definite appendage 

 to the spore, much as the bristles of Pestalozzia are, whereas in 

 A. sachalinensis the beak is a mere prolongation of the spore, not 

 separable from it, but continuous with it. This beak is occasionally 

 curved or flexuose, and is often longer than the basal portion ; except 

 for that, the whole spore bears a strong likeness in outline to an 

 exaggerated shoemaker's awl. The median septum is quite distinct, 

 especially after treatment with iodine, but the one or two other 

 lateral septa Avhich were occasionally suspected are uncertain, and 

 may be only false appearances in the protoplasm. The texture of the 

 thick pycnidial wall is close and hard, composed of parenchymatous 

 cells, of which the outer are dark brown, and the inner ones gradually 

 paler ; the proliferous stratum is colourless, and lines the whole of the 

 inside cavity. It is conceivable that K. Polygoni and K. Bumicis 

 (of which unfortunately neither specimens nor figures are at hand) 

 belong likewise to Ampliorula, and should be called A. Polygoni 

 and A. Puinicis, but K. yuccigeiia, of which original specimens have 

 been examined, certainly does not. — On the same stems at Sutton 

 Coldfield JSiyxosporium Polygoni Grove also occurred. 



347. Septoria Jasiones, comb. nov. 



Plilijctcena Jasiones Bres. in Hedwig. 1897. p. 381. Sacc. Sjdl. 

 xiv. 987. Allesch. vi. 939. 



Pycnidia hyiDophyllous, scattered or aggregated, subglobose or 

 lens-shaped, blackish, 60-100 /x- diam. ; texture parenchymatous in 

 the centre, paler and more prosenchymatous towards the margin, 

 darkest round the ostiole. Spores elongated, filiform, straight or 

 more often arcuate, scarcely guttulate, 20-35 x 1-1$ ft. (Fig- 8.) 



On living and dead leaves, stems, and involucral bracts of Jasione 

 montana. Stevenston and West Kilbride, Ayrshire (Boyd). Aug. 



These specimens agree so closely with the description of Bresadola 

 that there can be little doubt of their identity. But they are not 

 a Phlyctwna \ the pycnidium is complete, all round, and exactly that 

 of a typical Septoria. The fungus appears to be a parasite, since it 

 is found on the stem, etc., of the still living ])lant. 



348. Septoria polaris Karst. in Hedwig. 1884, p. 38. Sacc. 

 Syll. iii. 523. Var, scotica, var. nov. 



Spots indistinct, brownish-black or fuliginous, without any dis- 

 tinct border. Pycnidia here and there densely aggregated, mostly 

 epiphyllous, immersed, then emergent, globose-conical, black, up to 

 100 yw, diam., at length pierced by a pore ; texture very thin, pale 



