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also in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, upon the bark 

 of fallen branches ; it is easily recognised by the reddish-brown 

 colour of the filaments, and by the echinulate spores, but I have 

 found it difficult of observation from the densely tangled mode 

 of growth of the flocci. The structure is not always such as 

 is represented in Corda's figures, where the spores are borne 

 singly upon the tips of short filaments proceeding from the 

 main flocci. I have distinctly seen three sterigmata produced 

 at the apex of a fructifying tliread, and the latter was of some 

 length, and slightly swollen at the apex, not a short, stiff, 

 pointed thread as in Corda's figures. Fig. 41 represents 

 a fertile thread, magnified 220 diameters, and by the side 

 of it are shown three spores similarly magnified. The fertile 

 threads sometimes, I think, produce four sterigmata."^ 



Coryneum Kunzei, Corda, ' Icones Fungorum,' vol. iv, taf. 

 X, fig. 151.— On oak, Shooter's Hill Wood, autumn, 1853. 

 Corda distinguishes this species from all other Corjniea by 

 the natiu'c of the epispore, which he states to be continuous, 

 whereas, in the other species, he considers the fruit to con- 

 sist of a nmnber of distinct cells united together. I have, 

 unfortunately, mislaid my specimens, and am unable to test 

 the acciu^acy of Corda's views of their anatomy, but I sus- 

 pect there is no real difference in structure between this and 

 the other species. Coryneum Kunzei is stated by Corda to be 

 very rare, and I do not know that it has occurred in England 

 except in the above locality. 



Trichia cerina, Ditmar. — Peridium ovoid, of a greenish 

 yellow coloiu' ; stem elongated, fuliginous ; sporidia globose, 

 colour of the sporidia and capillitium the same as that of 

 the peridium. (Ditmar, in Sturm's ' Deutschlands Flora,' 

 t. XXV, p. 51. Trichia clavata, ft. olivascens, Fries, ' Syst 

 Myc.,' iii, p. 186.) On wood, Sketty, near Swansea, Sep- 

 tember, 1855. 



My specimens accord well with Ditmar's figure and descrip- 

 tion. Fries considers the plant as only a variety of Trichia 

 clavata, but the latter has a yellow shining peridium of a very 

 different appearance. There is also a marked difi^erence in 

 the spiral tlu-eads. In Trichia cerina the threads are pale 

 coloiu'ed, and taper gradually to a veiy thin point at each 

 extremity ; the spiral markings are very delicate, and the 

 threads themselves are simple, detached from one another, 

 and of a definite and moderate length. In Trichia clavata, 

 on the otlier hand, the threads form an extensive complicated 



* Mr. Berkeley thinks it possible that the species of Zygodcsmus maybe 

 conditious of certain Thelephoroid Tungi. See ' lutroductiou to Cryptogamic 

 Botany/ Bailliere, 1857. 



