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have afforded us of studying these rare and interesting forms ; and for 

 their liberality in placing the specimens at our disposal, and in 

 enabling us to illustrate our report in a manner that cannot fail to 

 greatly enhance its value. 



We have been compelled to leave many points undetermined, but 

 have in all such cases clearly indicated the nature of these points, and 

 the difficulties by which we were baffled; and we have done tliis in the 

 hope that we may thereby direct attention to the important work yet 

 to be effected, and may facilitate in some measure th'> work of the 

 Society in its future dredging excursions. 



FUNGI OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BIR:\[INGHAM. 



FIRST LIST, 1881-82. 

 (Couti)nicd from pane 252.) 



GASTROMYCETES ( M>/.ro;iastnb)is e.rrht^i.'!. ) * 



Phallus impudicus, Linn. Sutton Park, common. Sept., Oct. 



Lycoperdon gemmatum, Fr. Hams Hall. Sept., Oct. 



L. pyriforme, Schiiff. Common ; Sutton Park ; Olton ; Barnt Green ; 



Drift'old Lane, etc. Aug. — Nov. 



Scleroderma vulijare, Fr. Olton ; Sutton Park (abundant). July — Nov. 

 S. verrucosum, Pers. Sparkhill. My specimens were smooth, pinkish, 



subterranean, but Mr. Phillips informs me that they are only the 



early stage of this species ; spores bright violet Oct. 



Cyathus vernicosus. DC. Aston ; Sutton ; on wood. Sept., Oct. 



Crucibulum vulgare, Tul. Perry Barr, amongst grass. Jan. 



Sphaerobolus stellatus, Tode. Gi-eat Barr ; Sutton. Aug. — Nov. 



CONIOMYCETES. 

 Melanconium bicolor, Nees. Edgbaston ; Sutton. April- July. 



Stegonosporium cellulosum, Corda. Sparkhill, on beech. Oct. 



Torula herbarum. Link. Common everywhere. Autumn. 



T. sporendonema, B. and Br. Sutton, on pigeon's dung. Oct., Nov. 

 Bispora monilioides, Corda. Driffold Lane, Sutton. April. 



Sporochisma mirabile, B. and Br. Driffold Lane, Sutton. April. 



Sporidesmium lepraria, B. and Br. Driffold Lane, Sutton. July — Sept. 

 Pucciuia graminis, Pers. II., 111.+ Common, on grasses. II., Summer ; 



III., Autumn. 

 P. polygonorum. Link. II., III. Driffold Lane, Sutton. Sept., Oct. 

 P. menthse, Pers. II. Common, on garden mint. July — Oct. 



P. compositarum, Sch. II., III. Common, on Lapsaiia, etc. July — Nov. 

 P. variabilis, Grev. III. On dandelion, Water Orton. Sept. 



P. galiorum. Link. III. Clent Hills, If. H. fVilki)i.-<oii. Aug. 



P. uiubelliferarnm, DC. II.. III. Driffold Lane. Sutton. On .Ethnm 



cijiiapiam. Oct. 



P. lychnidearum. Link. II., III. Hams Hall. Sept. 



* For naming some species of these and the following groups, I am indebted 

 to the kindness of Messrs. C. B. riowvight and \V. Phillips. 



+ As there is no book yet published in RnKlish, iu which the leaf-fungi are 

 arranged according to modern ideas, I have chiefly followed the arrangement of 

 the Handbook. 



