12 
or ire ey: projecting ostioles; loculi few, circinating. Spores 
5 p; sperophers fasciculate, mostly simple, 10— 
‘cg x , 
On leaves and twigs of Pies Not known with certainty 
as British, but extremely likely to occur here. The spermogone 
of Valsa Friesit Fekl. 
It is found especially on the upper surface of the leaves, 
but also on the young twigs. The ascophorous stage follows 
on the main trunk and branches. Often included under C. 
Pinastri (q.v. 
Distrib. France, Belgium, Germany. 
C. Fuckelii Sacc. Syll. iii. 263. Allesch. vi. 577. Died. p. 338. 
Stromata widely but not densely scattered, obtusely and 
flatly conical, 500-750 » broad, 1:oundish, long covered by 
the epidermis, at length piercing it by the greyish dise which is 
marked with a black pore, multilocular within, the loculi roughly 
circinate, with thick walls sama of greenish-grey prosen- 
chymatous cells. Spores 5-6 x 1-5 mw; spore-mass greyish; 
sporophores acicular, curved, simple, 20-26 p long. 
On twigs of Corylus Avellana. Neston, Cheshire (Ellis). 
Dec. In company with Valsa Fuckelii Nits., of which it is the 
spermogone. 
Distrib. Germany, Italy. 
C. fugax Fr. Syst. Myc. ii. 544. Cooke, Handb. pp. 462, 827. 
Rae aah iii. 263. Allesch. vi. 576. Variolaria fugax Bull. 
pl. 432, £. 5 
oe ma little or none. Pustules prominent, 1-1-5 mm. 
broad, lens-shaped, concrete with the epidermis; loculi black, 
circinating round a central columella; disc flat or somewhat 
sunken, black or smoky-brown. Spores 6-8 x 1-5 y; tendrils 
slender, greyish-white, subhyaline. 
On bark of Salia (S. alba, fragilis, nigricans, viminalis, etc.). 
Kew; Kent; Studley eis Wixford, etc., Warwickshire. Also 
recorded abroad on C 
I am inclined to es that this is not anything but the 
final state of C. Salicts (q.v.). When perfect, it consists of a 
circle of 6-20 black loculi, filled with a greyish mass, with almost 
no stroma perceptible, and forming a flattened covered pustule, 
up to 1-5 mm. wide, bursting through in the centre with a ragged 
opening. Bulliard gave 2 es name fugax because it seemed 
to disappear in a short ti 
Distrib. Europe, Siberia, North America. 
C. germanica Sacc. Syll. iii. 262. Allesch. vi. 604. Died. 
p. 355. Grove, in Journ. Bot. 1922, p. 45. 
Stromata scattered or gregarious, conico-truncate or convex, 
with a roundish base, 0-5-1-25 mm. broad; disc whitish, then 
cinereous, at length marked with a small black central papilla 
