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Neopeckia fulcita (Bucknall) Sacc. Lasiosphaeria fulcita Buck. 
in Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc. v (1887), p. 126. 
This occurred at Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, July, 1922, on 
rotting bark of Prunus Laurocerasus. It differed from the 
Bristol specimens at Kew in being on bark instead of on bare 
wood, in being almost completely superficial instead of with 
base immersed and in having more hairy perithecia which had 
not collapsed in folds. The Lytchett perithecia were indeed 
very evidently hairy under a hand-lens. No paraphyses were 
seen but the asci were involved in a diffluent mass. In other 
respects it agreed exactly. The fungus in some ways suggests 
Melanopsamma pomiformis Sacc. but is hairy and with spores 
becoming more truly brown. It is probably uncommon. 
Lasiosphaeria sulphurella Sacc. in Mich. 1 (1878), p. 440. 
This species was collected in Lincolnshire in 1908. The cell- 
walls of the perithecia are of a yellowish context, not in any way 
carbonised. It does not appear common but was recorded from 
Kew (Grev. xvi (1886), p. 17). It belongs to the section Lepto- 
spora of Lasiosphaeria. 
Bertia moriformis (Tode) de Not. in Giorn. Botan. Ital. 1 (1844), 
P- 335: 
Specimens from Mulgrave Wood, communicated by the late 
Charles Crossland, otherwise typical, proved to have hyaline 
spores, at first I-septate, finally 3-7-septate, 48-52 x 5-6y. 
Some of these spores were seen germinating from every cell. 
I have examined numberless other specimens but none had 
spores more than 1-septate. The spores are rather large for the 
species. I have not found r-septate spores more than 46 long, 
still they most probably represent the mature state of Bertia 
moriformis. I am not aware that these multiseptate spores have 
been previously noticed. The matter is worthy of further in- 
vestigation. 
B. collapsa Rommell in Bot. Notiser (1892), p. 178. 
This is certainly only a corrugated form of Melanopsamma 
pomiformis Sacc., as an examination of Rommell’s specimen at 
Kew proved. The mature spores are pale brown. Marquand’s 
material from the Channel Islands (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 1 
(1897), p. 24) is the same. 
Rosellinia papaverea (B. and Br.) Ces. et de Not. in Comment. 
Crittogam. Ital. (1863), p. 228. Sphaeria papaverea B. and 
Br. in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, vir (1851), p. 188, t. 7, 
f. 14 (Notices No. 612). 
An examination of a Batheaston specimen at Kew showed 
the perithecia to be } mm. across, covered, except the papilla, 
with a whitish felt (which may be adventitious) and seated on 
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