150 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



6o-7g/x X 5-7^1; spores monostichous,obovate,i-septate, slightly 

 constricted, pale brown, 6-9/x x 5/x; paraphyses slender, simple. 



On stems of the larger herbaceous plants. On dead stems of 

 Senecio samc^wicws,' Kilwinning, Ayrshire; D.A.Boyd, Aug. 1917. 



Mr. Boyd's plant corresponds exactly with the published 

 description except in the ascus w^hich has frequently a long 

 stalk and measures up to 105 /x in length. The same type of 

 ascus is present in Krieger's specimen of "Fungi Saxonici." 



Leptosphaeria galiorum Sacc. f. Dipsaci, Grove in Journ. Bot. 

 Ivi. p. 286 (pi. 550, fig. 2), 1918. 

 On dead stems of Dipsacus sylvestris, Salwarpe, near Droit- 

 wich, July. 



Melogramma spiniferum de Not. Sferiac. Ital. p. 53, 1863. 



Stromata generally numerous and crowded, hemispherical and 

 cushion-like, 2-3 mm. wide, hard, horny-carbonaceous, rough, 

 black. Perithecia mostly about 4 to 10 in each stroma, 

 irregular, globose or flask-shaped, greyish-black, with more 

 or less bent shortly projecting ostioles; asci cylindrical sub- 

 clavate or subfusiform, sessile, 190-210/* x 17-18/Lt, 8-spored; 

 spores cylindrical, rounded at the ends, slightly bent, 7-septate, 

 brown, but the end cells hyaline, 54-70 /a x 8/*; paraphyses 

 delicatC; sparsely septate, about 7/x thick. 



On dead bark of Fagus sylvatica; D. A. Boyd, Stevenston, 

 Ayrshire, March 19 18. 



In the specimen sent the spore cells are occupied by large 

 guttulae. 



Melogramma elongatum n. sp. ' 



Peritheciis subglobosis in stromata, elongata, angusta, 

 congregatis vel solitariis, immersis vel prominulis, ca. 300 ju, lat., 

 ad apicem poro pertusis; paraphysibus filif ormibus ; ascis 

 elongatis, 8-sporis; sporis uniseriatis, oblongo-ellipsoideis, 

 apiculatis, plerumque rectis, fuligineis, 18-30/x x 5-10/x, 2-3 

 (inaequaliter) — locularibus, cellulo hyalino minutissimo, ad 

 unum vel utrinque extremum, praeditis. 



In ramis putridis: C. Mcintosh, Perthshire, 1893. 



The stromata grow in parallel lines along the blackened 

 wood. The species is distinguished chiefly by the very variable 

 spore cells, usually unequally divided; from the longer cell 

 a minute colourless cell is cut off ; at the opposite end septation 

 is less evident but there is usually present a colourless apiculus. 

 Some of the spores are divided into three equal cells, one of the 

 end cells being only faintly coloured. 



