38 Rey. M. J. Berkeley & Mr.C. E. Broome on British Fungi. . 
Two lines or more wide. Contracting very much when 
dry. Paraphyses slightly clavate; sporidia ‘0007 inch long, 
0004 wide. 
1481. P. (Humaria) fusispora, B. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846 ; 
var. scotica, Rabenh. Exsicc. 
On heathy ground. Berwick, Dr. Johnstone; Menmuir, 
Rev. M. Anderson, Dec. 22, 1873. On turfy soil, New Pit- 
sligo, Rev. J. Fergusson. 
A very pretty species, varying from nearly white to orange 
or blood-red. Sporidia *001—-0012 inch long, *0005 wide. 
1482. P. (Lachnea) brunneola, Desm. 
On oak-leaves, Mr. Phillips. 
This is very probably the same as P. fuscescens, P. Des- 
mazitres says of his plant that the paraphyses are much 
longer than the asci, straight, fusiform, pomted, and as wide 
as the asci. In Mr. Phillips’s plant, however, the width of the 
asci as compared with that of the paraphyses is not exactly 
the same. The question, perhaps, is whether it should not 
be referred to Desmazterella. 
1483. P. (Hymenoscyphe) strobilina, Fr. 
On fir-cones, Scotland, where it appears tobe common. The 
whole cone is sometimes covered with a floccose furfuraceous 
subiculum. 
1484. P. (Mollisia) rubella, P. 
On decayed wood with P. vinosa. New Pitsligo, Rev. J. 
Fergusson. 
1485. P. (Mollisia) Stevensoni, B. & Br. Minuta; stipite 
brevissimo sursum incrassato; cupulis subglobosis, saccharinis; 
sporidiis minutis subcymbeeformibus. 
On decorticated wood. Glamis, Rev. J. Stevenson. 
Minute, subglobose, sugar-coloured, externally minutely 
granular. Sporidia -0005 inch long. This is accompanied by 
white creeping threads, which give off erect branches bearing 
obovate spores ‘001 inch long. Probably a conidiiferous state. 
1486. Helotium tuba, Fr., b. ochracea. 
On a heap of decaying vegetables. Menmuir, Rev. M. 
Anderson, March 1874. 
1487. H. melleum, B. & Br. Pallide melleum;_ stipite 
brevi cylindrico; cupulis planis flexuosis; margine elevato 
inflexo; ascis elongatis, lanceolatis; sporidiis biseriatis, fusi- 
formibus, uno latere curvulis, multinucleatis. 
On rotten wood. New Pitsligo, Rev. J. Fergusson. 
About a line broad; stem half as much high; sporidia 
0012 inch long. Allied to H. /uteolum. 
1488. H. sublateritium, B. & Br. Pallide lateritium ; sti- 
pite brevi cylindrico, subtiliter albo-villoso, glabrescente ; 
