NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI 189 



On dead bleached flower-stalks of Iris Pseudacorus, Quarry 

 Pool, Hamstead (St.), x\pril. In the sixteenth volume of the 

 Sylloge, this is recorded on dead bleached stems of Iris fostidissima 

 in Corsica, and is placed as a subspecies of Phoma Agcqjanthi 

 Sacc. (Syll. iii, 158), from which it differs merely in the narrower 

 spores. The Corsican specimens are described as much larger 

 (|-f mm. long), but the Staffordshire specimens seem to be 

 identical with them in all other respects. 



223. SPHiERON^MA CORNUTUM Pr. Fung. Hoyersw. no. 144, 

 Sacc. Syll. iii, 195. 



Pycnidia gregarious, nearly superficial, black, 120-200 /x diam., 

 growing on wood, subglobose, covered, especially in the lower 

 part, with scattered black hairs ; neck very long, cylindrical, quite 

 straight or slightly flexuose, divided into fibrils at the apex ; 

 contents whitish, oozing out and forming a globule at the mouth. 

 Spores oblong-ovoid, 3-4 x 2 /u, mostly immature and immersed 

 in a thick jelly. (Tab. 542, fig. 10.) 



On dead wood, Sutton Coldfield, 1885. This fungus appeared 

 again in 1915, on soft decaying wood (? willow). Windmill Naps, 

 Tanworth, January-May, being first seen on a piece of wood, kept 

 in a moist chamber, on which Panus stypticus was being grown, 

 but afterwards found on other pieces of rotting wood, brought 

 from the same locality by Dr. Bayliss-Elliott. It seems to be 

 characterised by the erect brown-black flocci which are dispersed 

 over the surface of the pycnidium and the adjoining wood, and by 

 its very long slender cylindrical beak, which was at least 1 mm. 

 long and 25-30 /x wide at the middle. Preuss described the 

 spores as " guttuUs repletis " (ex Sacc); this was not observed, 

 but they had a habit, when expelled in water under the micro- 

 scope, of collecting together in rounded masses of 6-12, looking 

 almost as if enclosed in an ascus. 



224. Fusicoccum Aceris sp. n. 



Stromatibus sparsis, depresso-conicis, peridermio innatis, dein 

 rima v. ore irregulari emergentibus, atro-cinereis, h mm. latis, intus 

 pallido-succineis. Sporis copiosissimis, fusoideis, fere rectis, 

 apicibus subacutis, achrois, 12-14 x 2-2i- /,<-, primo continuis, dein 

 septo mediano spurio (?) praeditis v. saltem plasmate bipartite, 

 sporophoris simplicibus, linearibus, sporam subeequantibus, 1| /x 

 latis suffultis. (Tab. 542, fig. 8.) 



Hah. in ramulis Aceris sp., Cheshire (J. W. Ellis), April. It 

 should be compared with F. Carpini Sacc. (Syll. iii, 250). 



225. Fusicoccum gl(eosporoides Sacc. & Eoum. (Syll. iii, 249). 

 Stromata depressed-conical, scattered, immersed in the cortex, 



then erumpent by a roundish pore, blackish without, wavy and 

 pallid or greyish within, with 1-several loculi. Spores oblong- 

 fusoid, rounded above, rather acute below, continuous, straight, 

 hyaline, 8-10 x 2-2^ /x ; sporophores lanceolate, 2 /x wide, rather 

 longer than the spore. (Tab. 542, fig. 7.) 



On twigs of Coryliis Avellana, Cheshire (J. W. Ellis), April. 

 This does not seem to be the same as F. album Sacc, (Syll. xi, 507), 



