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echinulate stylospores 15-20 /z in diameter, on slender stalks about 

 40 /z long. Stylospores have not hitherto been recorded for M. 

 Bainieri, nor for M. candelahrum, a closely-allied species. 



Botrytis angularis A. L. Sm., n. sp. Oonidiophores imbranched, 

 pale yellowish, the tip angularly swollen, and producing from the 

 angles swollen bladder-like cells measuring 

 15 X 10 /x, the stalks continuing to grow and 

 form other heads ; spores elliptical oblong, 

 10 X 6 /x, borne on very small projections on 

 the swollen cells. 



On damp moss and earth, Mr. Jenkin, 

 Newport, Mon.; Feb. 1897. 



This form of Botrytis bears some re- 

 semblance to the species figured by Engler 

 & Prantl as the conidial form of Peziza 

 repanda in the Natilrlichen Pfianzenfamilien, 

 Lief. 180, p. 183, but t^he angular form 

 of the part that bears the bladder-like cells, and the size and shape 

 of the spores, give it quite a distinctive specific character. 



Sporotrichum globuliferum Speg. Found by Mr. Pycraft on 

 the flesh of dead birds from America, with which it was doubtless 

 introduced. Hitherto recorded only as growing on dead Coleoptera 

 in America. 



Sepedonium sepedonioides (Harz)A.L.S. 

 This fungus was also found by Mr. Jenkin 

 along with a culture of some other species 

 on damp cardboard. It is evidently a form 

 of the plant figured and described as Mono- 

 sporium sepedonioides Harz, Hyphomycetes, 

 p. 18, T. ii. fig. 3. The spores are globosO; 

 coarsely warted, and are rather larger than 

 those of the Harz species, varying from 

 10 to 15 /x in diameter. The mode of 

 branching and the form and appearance of 

 the spores place it wiidiOwhiQdlymSepcdoniiDu, 

 as Saccardo has already suggested. The plant 

 has not hitherto been recorded for Britain. 



iEciDiuM sp. Pseudoporidia forming small oblong or irregular 

 groups, golden yellow, cylindrical, from |- to -|- mm. in diameter, 

 the edges becoming torn ; spores globose, irregular, 12-17 /x, 

 smooth, contents very granular. 



On the leaves of Siucda maritima, Shoreham, Sussex ; July, 1897. 



This may possibly be identical with ^^. SalicornicB DC, but the 

 spores are smaller and smooth. 



The following fungi new to Britain were discovered by Mr. D. A. 

 Boyd, Seamill, Ayrshire, who has allowed me to include them 

 here : — 



PsEUDOPHAciDiuM CALLUNiE Karst. On dead branches of Calluna 

 vulgaris. West Kilbride ; March, 1892. 



