328 W. E. GEOYE. 



Some Account of Polystigma rubrum, Pers., 

 based upon the Recent Investigations of Dr. 

 A. B. Frank/ and C. Pisch..^ 



By 



'W. B. Grove, B.A., 



Honorary Librarian of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 



Society. 



Polystigma rubrum, Pers. in ' Mougeot and Nestler's 

 Stirp. Cr. Vog./ No. 270 (1812)— Decand., ' Fl. Fr./ vi, 164; 

 'Mem. du Mus./ iii, 337, pi. xiv, fig. 7 (1817)— Grev., 'Fl. 

 Edin.,' p. 365 ; and ' Scot. Cr. Fl./ ii, pi. 120 (1824)— Fresen., 

 'Beitr. zur Myk./ i, 34 (1850)— Rabenh., 'Herb. Mycol./ 

 ed. 2, New Ser., No. 580 (1857)— Tulasne, ' Sel. Fung. Carp./ 

 ii, 76—8, pi. viii, figs. 10—20 (1863)— Fuckel, ' Symb. Myc./ 

 p. 222 (1869); 'Nach./ ii, 40 (1873); ditto, iii, 25 (1875); 

 exs. Nos. 1003 (Spermog.), 2664 (Asci)— Cooke, ' Hand. Br. 

 Fung., p. 803 (1871) ; exs. i, 182; ii, 577— Saccardo, 'Mich./ 

 ii,282 (1878) ; v, 551 (1879); vi, 74 (1880)— Houmeg., ' Fung, 

 sel. Gal./ exs. No. 275— Stevenson, ' Myc. Scot./ p. 364 (1879) 

 —Frank, ' Krankh. der Pflanz.,' p. 633-4 (1880)— Rabenh., 

 'Deutsch. Kr. Fl.,' i, 166 (1844). 



Xyloma (?) rubrum, Pers., ' Obs. Myc.,' ii, 101 (1799) ; 

 X. rubrum, • Syn. Meth./ p. 105 (1801)— Alb. et Schwein., 

 p. 64 (1805)— Hooker, 'Fl. Scot.,' ii, 9— Purton, 'Mid. Fl./ 

 iii, 316, pi. xxxiii (1821)— Nocca et Balbis, ' Fl. Tic./ ii, 808, 



1 " TJeber einige neue und weniger bekannte Pflauzenkrankheiten," ' Berichte 

 der Deutschen Bot. Gesellsehaft,' i, p. 58—62 (1SS3). 



^ "Beitrage zur Entwickelungsgeschichte einiger Ascomyceten," 'Bota- 

 niscbe Zeitung,' Nos. 49—51 (1882). 



