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rows, immersed, oval or elliptical, up to 4 mm. long (or rarely 1 mm.), 

 convex, covered by the blackish striated epidermis, somewhat shining, 

 lips rather swollen, closely appressed, leaving a scarcely discernible 

 longitudinal fissure. Asci broadly clavate, somewhat attenuated to- 

 wards the apex, sessile, 50-70 x 10-12 jj.. Spores distichous, varying 

 from elliptic-oblong through lanceolate to nearly linear, obtuse above, 

 tapering slightly downwards, often cloudy or 2-5-guttulate, but some- 

 times quite hyaline, occasionally curved, 24-28 x 2-4 fi, at first 

 surrounded by a broad perfectly hyaline mucous coat ; jDaraphyses 

 numerous, filiform, flexuose, 1-1 1 /m. broad, slightly longer than the 

 asci, often curved and thickened at the apex. 



On dead leaves of Pinits Struhus, Eagley Wood, Oxon., April 

 (A. D. Cotton). Each perithecium is surrounded while young by a 

 narrow dark grey area, which is bounded by a thin black line ; after- 

 wards the whole becomes black. A few globose colourless spermatia, 

 3-4 fj. diam., Avere seen mingled with the asci. Though this account 

 differs from that of Duby in some respects, there can be no doubt 

 that the species is correct. 



178. Lachnea copbinaria var. minima Gr. 



Having since found better specimens of this, in a more mature 

 state, I have to record that it now seems to me to be nothing but 

 Ascoholus harhafus M. & C. in its early stages. This species is 

 described as being intermediate between Lachnea and Ascoholus. 

 The statement made in the Transactions of the British 3Iycological 

 Society, vol. iv, p. 367, note, could not possibly be true. 



CCELOMTCETES.* 



257. Phtllosticta Camellia Westd. in Kickx, Flor. Crvpt. i. 

 416. Sacc. Syll. iii. 25. 



P. camellicecola Brun. Misc. My col. p. 13. Sacc. Syll. x. 101. 



Spots large, roundish or oblong, up to 25 mm. wide, whitish-gi*ey, 

 with a narrow thickened blood-red border, visible on both sides of the 

 leaf. Pycnidia epiphyllous, immersed, globose, papillate, black, 150- 

 300 /A diam., piercing and at length bursting the epidermis. Spores 

 ovoid-oblong, biguttulate, 4-5 x 2-1\ \x. 



On living leaves of Camellia japonica. Ward End Hall, near 

 Birmingham, Dec. 1885. 



It is obvious, on comparing the descriptions of the two supposed 

 species with these specimens, that they are one and the same ; large 

 and small pycnidia occur on the same sj^ot, closely intermixed. 



258. Phyllosticta Cobyli Westd. Bull. Acad. Belg. xix. no. 1. 

 Sacc. Syll. iii. 31. 



Spots scattered over the leaf, rather large, fuscous-ochraceous, 

 then dingy whitish. Pycnidia lens-shaped, 100-150 /^t diam., jjierced 



* The descriptions of the Coelomycetes (i. e. SphferopsidaleH ami Melan- 

 coniales) herein given are patt of those prepared for a woi'k on that group of 

 British Fungi, now well advanced. See Kew Bulletin, 1917 and 1918. 



