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row ampulliform gale a and the B-spores on short thickish 
conical ones. Von H6 finds the sporophores more or 
alike in both cases. The Tait statement seems to represent the 
truth in most of the cases here mie os though the B-spores 
always have shorter sporophores. Diedicke also tries to make 
out that the A-spores occur in pycnidia of a different shape from 
those containing the B-spores, but for this contention there seems 
to be little or no groun 
The description given ‘above of the mature pycnidium would 
be misleading without further explanation. For, when the 
pycnidium is young, it may be incomplete shove: : in fact, in 
that case in some species the fungus would seem to belong to the 
Melanconiales, being much of the nature of a Gloeosporium. 
is this state which Von Héhnel describes, and it may contain 
either A- or B-spores. At this anes | however, the as et of 
The belief that the ended of this form- on th nus are pycnidial 
the fact that some of 
on one or both of these two groun 
Hitherto Phomopsis has ae ignored by all British myco- 
logists, but during the ast year the large number of British 
yeaa preserved in the Herbarium at Kew under the genus 
have been examined, with the result that the following 
— of Phomopsis are found to occur in this country. e 
ames are arranged siphabetinally. Only the spores and Ss 
chien, of which knowledge has been very imperfect, in 
general described here, as the macroscopic aspect 1s cstally. cor- 
rectly given in the original account, but complete descriptions 
will appear in a work on the British sc aoa i.e., Sp 
sidales and Melanconiales, now in course of Ee bel ration. There 
le 
treat in a similar manner ab: a later date. In what follows senna 
ties are given only when the species has not been previously 
ra as British. Some proposed new species are idea fe 
e en | 
Phomopsis, Sacc. aia. sei: 1905, iii. 166. 
Pyenidia lens-shaped, conical, pustular, or rarely ere 
