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the year, usually on rotten wood, sometimes on dead leaves or 

 leathery fungi, e.g. Polystictus versicolor and Trametes suaveolens, 

 also once recorded on living birch and once on living Acer 

 platanoides. 



ii8. A. incarnata Pers. has frequently been found from 

 November to January and in March, May and July on rotten 

 lime wood, oak or pine, etc. 



var. fulgens Lister appears regularly every year in November 

 and December in large patches of crimson sporangia on rotten 

 beech. 



119. A. stipata Lister has only once been noticed in Surrey 

 when Mr E. S. Salmon found it on dead wood at Reigate in 1894. 



120. A. nutans Grev. is common from June to October more 

 especially on oak wood but also on pine, birch, rhododendron 

 and alder. 



*i2i. A. (Erstedtii Rost. makes only a brief autumnal appear- 

 ance each year. It has twice occurred at Weybridge in Sep- 

 tember, once on an old pine stump and once on a piece of square 

 cut pine timber and on adjacent leaves. 



122. Lachnobolus congestus Lister. From January to March 

 and from August to November this species has cropped up 

 more than a dozen times in Weybridge. Only once was it on 

 willow bark and in every other case it was on rotten wood of 

 either white or Lombardy poplar. In August the fresh Plas- 

 modium was found and nursed into maturity, thus establishing 

 its colour as opaque white, and corroborating the experience 

 of other observers. Its favourite resort is similar to that of 

 0. nitens, except that it prefers poplar wood to alder; twice it 

 has been noticed at a height of two or three feet from the ground. 

 The sporangia are usually heaped, rarely scattered; even then 

 they retain a polygonal shape, showing that this feature is not 

 necessarily due to mutual pressure. 



123. Perichaena depressa Libert has been found frequently 

 from February to April and from July to December on poplar 

 bark and slender stems of yew twigs. 



124. P. corticalis Rost. is recorded for every month except 

 May and June. Usually it is on poplar wood but it has occurred 

 also on rotten beech, under the bark on ash sticks and on a dead 

 ivy stem 15 ft. up a tree. 



125. P. vermicularis Rost. This is distinctly a winter species 

 and has been frequently noticed every year between December 

 and April developing from a watery pink plasmodium. It has 

 appeared on nettle, elm leaves, hops, and the foliage of yew, 

 bramble, holly and beech. A specimen found on a thistle, on 

 top of a haystack, had large spores measuring 15-20 /x. 



126. Margarita metallica Lister. This little gem is of frequent 



