366 Rey. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 
Forming crowded patches very much resembling those of 
Diachea elegans. Peridia obovate-oblong, cinereous, with a white 
mealy coat ; stems hyaline, membranaceous, generally distinct 
though crowded, springing from a thin subjacent membrane. 
Spores black, variegated with the white, coarse, irregular, here 
and there lacunose flocci. 
The lower figure in ‘ Fl. Dan.’ t. 1973. fig. 1, 1s probably a 
representation of the species before us, which is evidently widely 
diffused. The plant represented in the upper figure with a sepa- 
rate membranous outer peridium seems to be quite different. At 
any rate our plant is no Diderma, and could not have been placed 
by Fries in that genus. We are compelled therefore to consider 
it as undescribed. The globose spores appear at first sight to be 
granulated, but on closer inspection the granules are found to 
arise from the disintegrated outer peridium. It may be men- 
tioned that in D. Spumariozdes the flocci are black. 
385. D. dedaleum, n. s. Stipitibus brevibus coalitis peridiis- 
que deedalino-connatis sinuatis pallide lateritiis albo farmaceis ; 
floccis candidis ; sporis atro-purpureis. In great abundance in a 
cucumber-frame, Milton, Norths., Mr. J. Henderson, April 26, 
1843. 
Spreading far and wide in little subglobose masses; stems 
reddish brown, inclining to orange, connate, as if composed of a 
mass of little flat bran-like membranes ; peridia connate, sinuated, 
forming a deedaloid mass of the same colour as the stem, but 
sprinkled with white meal and having to the eye a grayish tinge 
from the contained spores, which are purplish black, smooth and 
globose, variegated with the white flocci, which are frequently 
forked and vary greatly in width, being in parts broad, flat and 
membranous: 
A very beautiful species allied to D. fulvipes, but differing 
evidently in its white flocci and otber particulars. 
386. Stemonitis Physaroides, A. & 8. p. 108. t. 2. fig. 8. On 
mossy stumps of trees, Northamptonshire. 
Our specimens have a beautiful coppery tinge, but are doubt- 
less referable to the species cited above. We have precisely the 
same thing from Ohio. 
387. S. violacea, Fr. l. c. vol. 1. p. 162. On different species 
of moss : common. 
We have gathered this near Cambridge and in Somersetshire, 
and it has been sent to us from Shropshire by Mr. Leighton, and 
from Berwick by Dr. Johnston. 
388. Enerthenema elegans, Bowm. in Linn. Tr. vol. xvi. p. 151. 
$163 
Perfect specimens of this very curious production have lately 
been transmitted by the Rev. M. A. Curtis from Lower Carolina, 
