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certainly a form of the Sclerophoma, since its habitat is on dead 

 branches of Pine, and its sporophores are expressly described as 

 obsolete, and the texture assigned to the pycnidium is that of 

 8clerop}ioma. There are thus two similar but distinct Fungi occur- 

 ring on Pine — a Sclerojyhoma and a Sporonema, and in all probability 

 a third species, a PJiomopsis or a Fusicoccum, similar at first sight, 

 but differing in essential characters. 



272. DoTHioEELLA FRAXiNEA Sacc. & Roum. Eel. Lib. iv. 90, 

 f. 43. Sacc. Syll. iii. 236. 



Pycnidia subglobose, clustei'ed, erumpent, subconfluent, the mass 

 often flattish or convex or mamillate with the indistinct ostioles, black, 

 up to h mm. diam., closely surrounded by the fragments of the bark ; 

 contents whitish. Spores oblong-elliptic or subelavate, sometimes 

 inequilateral, frequently tapering at the ends, 8-10 x 2-2| /a (12 x5 fj., 

 Sacc), rarely with an indistinct guttule ; sporophores not seen. 



On bark of Ash. Lichfield. Feb., 1887. 



The spores differ, but this is probal;)ly merely a state of Saecardo's 

 species. Externally it exactly resembles Botryodiplodia Fraxini, of 

 which it is the early stage, standing to it in the same relation in 

 which Dotliiorella pyrenophora stands to Botryodiplodia pyreno- 

 phora. This relation seems to be parallel to that which the species of 

 JUicrodiplodia hold to those of Biplodia on the same hosts. 



273. Cytospora Myrtilli, sp. n. 



Conce]3taculis sparsis, minutis, tectis, dein ostiolo vel disco erum- 

 pentibus, nigrescentibus, 1-5 in stromate atro-cinereo usque GOO (U 

 diam. congregatis, nucleo albo, disco minvito, pruinoso, cinereo-albido, 

 ostiolis atris, saepius non proeminentibus, pertuso. Sporulis allan- 

 toideis, curvulis, 4—41 x |-1 /i, sporophoris confertis, plerumque sim- 

 plicibus, rectis, 30-40 x 1 /.i suffultis. 



Hah. in ramulis emortuis Vaccinii Myrtilli, West Kilbride, 

 Ayrshire (Boyd), Mart. 1918. 



The slightly convex pustules of the cinereous stroma show dark 

 through the epidermis, which is at length pierced at the centre, it may 

 be by a simple blackish ostiole, it may be by a whitish pruinose disc in 

 which lie 1-5 pierced round ostioles. 



(To be continued.) 



JOSEPH ANDREWS AND HIS HERBARIUM. 



(Continued from p. 261.) 



II. The Herbarium. 



By G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



Andrews's herbarium consists of ten fascicles, the first seven now 

 in Linnsean order, the eighth apparently unarranged, the ninth con- 

 sisting of Pteridophytes, and the tenth of Cellular Cryptogams. 

 This last contains the series of " Curious sea Plants taken between 



