154 CORRESPONDENCE. 
In marshes, on the droppings of cows and horses. Hanham, near 
Bristol. October, 1863. (C. E. Broome.) 
g. 9. Aseus, sporidia, and paraphyses : magnified 120. 
28. AsCOBOLUS SACCHARINUS, B. and Curr.; scat- 
tered or crowded; disk almost hemispherical when 
young, afterwards expanded and plane, of a reddish- 
pink, or salmon colour, when dry paler towards the 
margin; plant attached at the base by white downy 
threads; hymenium somewhat glistening, looking as 
if sprinkled with minute particles of brown sugar; 
sporidia elliptical, colourless, 0:0007 to 0:0008 inch, 
long. 
F. Currey, in litt. ; Berk. Outl. p. 374; Cooke, Ind. 
Fung. n. 1895. 
On old leather, and also on old rag. Chiselhurst 
Kent. Ege Currey. 
- 10. Ascus and sporidia : magnified 430. 
$4. ASCOBOLUS TRIFOLII, Bernh.; sessile, epi- 
phyllous, minute, rather plane, smooth, pale yellow. 
Sporidia elliptical, rather minute, sometimes with a Fig. 10. 
nucleus at each end. 
v. Bernh. St. Rar. t, 6. f. 3; Fr. Sys. Myc. ii. p. 165; Desmz. 
n. 520; Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 209; Outl. p. 374; Cooke, Ind. Fung. 
Brit. n. 1893. : 
On living clover-leaves. 
id 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Calluna vulgaris in Newfoundland. 
Glasnevin, 12th April, 1864. 
en I read the note from ‘Silliman’s Journal’ by Asa Gray, quoted in 
the J ci of Botany’ for January, 1863, relative to the common Ling, 
Calluna vulgaris, having been lately discovered in the State of Massachusetts, 
with the further notice that De la Pylaie had at an earlier date mentioned it as 
a native of Newfoundland, I intended to send you a note confirming the cor- 
rectness of the latter part of the sentence, but, like more good intentions, it was 
not carried out at the proper time, and consequently lost sight of. I have, 
