Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 403 



1056. (Educephalum Iceticolor, n. s. Minutissima, lateritia; 

 stipite requali, pallido ; capitulo subgloboso ; sporis globosis, 

 granulatis, appendiculatis. 



On sheeps' dung. Batheaston, Oct. 1863. 



Not half a line high, sending out at the base a few threads 

 into the matrix ; before the head is formed, nearly cylindrical, 

 with some large oil-globules, which at length in great measure 

 vanish. Spores -0006-0008 inch in diameter, with a little 

 appendage at the base like those of Epicoccum. 



Three species of (Edocephalum are figured in No. 35, vol. vi. 

 of St. Deutschl. Fl. 



Plate XIV. fig. 12. a. flocci and heads magnified; b. ditto, more 

 highly magnified; c. portion of head with young spores, ditto; d. mature 

 spores, ditto. 



■ r 1057. Peronospora sparsa, B. in Gardeners' Chronicle, 1862, 

 p. 308. 



On rose-leaves in gardens. Extremely destructive. 



1058. P. obliqua, Cooke, Micr. Fung. p. 160, fig. 269. Floccis 

 brevissimis, simplicibus vel unibrachiatis ; sporis oblongo-obovatis 

 ut plurimum obliquis. 



On living leaves of Rumex, M. C. Cooke. Sent also some 

 years since by Dr. Montagne, under the name of Ascomyces 

 Rumicis, from France, where it was gathered by Durieu de 

 Maisonneuve. 



Spores with a slight swelling towards the base, "001 inch long, 

 often set on obliquely. Sometimes they give off below a second 

 spore ; and we have once seen a septum in the threads. 



1059. Septonema elongatispora, Preuss, in St. Deutschl. Fl. 

 1851, vol. vi. p. 72, tab. 36. 



On nettle-stems. Batheaston, Oct. 1864. 



1060. Helvetia giyas, Kromb. tab. 20. ; Curr. /. c. fig. 25. 

 Blackheath Park, F. Currey. 



*Peziza (Helvelloideae) cerea, Sow. t. 3. 



This species occurred abundantly on leaves and sticks in a 

 hothouse at Lord Lindsay's, Uffington, Lincolnshire, March 26, 

 1862. 



1061. P. (Helvelloidese) tr achy carp a, Curr. in Linn. Trans, 

 vol. xxiv. p. 493, tab. 51. fig. 3. Prima setate orbicularis, fere 

 plana, ssepissime umbilicata; disco nigro-fusco, aspero, tubercu- 

 lato ; extus minute granulata ; sporidiis uniseriatis, globosis, 

 muricatis. 



On burnt soil. Ascot, Rev. G. H. Sawyer. (Rabenhorst, 

 Fung. Exsice. no. 620.) 



Cups \-\ inch broad, adpressed to the soil, substipitate or 

 obconic. Sporidia uniseriate, globose, muricate, brown, -0005- 

 •0007 inch in diameter. Though the sporidia are brown under 



