Messrs. Berkeley and Broome on British Fungi. 143 



paraphysibus linearibus apice curvatis hie illic ramosis ; spori- 

 diis globosis demum reticulatis. Fl. Dan. tab. 656. fig. 2. 



Occurring in little groups, but not crowded, by the side of 

 the road. Addington, Kent. It has also been found near 

 Hereford by Dr. Cooke. 



Sporidia '0007 inch in diameter. Dr. Cooke has the same 

 thing from Hereford ; and similar sporidia, but slightly larger, 

 occur in P. huinosa, Rehm and Fuckel. P. humosa, Fr., how- 

 ever, has cups 2-4 lines in diameter, which does not at all 

 accord with our plant. The figure in ' Flora Danica ' gives 

 exactly the habit ; and the magnified plant confirms our 

 diagnosis. 



1621. P. (Taphesia) rhabdosperma, B. & Br. Subiculo 

 , tenui tomentoso, pallide fulvo ; cupulis sparsis concoloribus 



extus saturatioribus villosis, margine inflexo, hymenio Isetiore; 

 ascis lanceolatis, obtusis ; sporidiis filiformibus. 



On dead wood, Leigh Down, Nov. 5, 1860. 



Sporidia •00.'}-"0035 inch long. Allied to P. coesia. 



Plate X. fig. 6. a. plant, magnified ; b. asci and sporidia, moro highly 

 magnified. 



1622. P. (Dasy scy-phx) fuscescens, P.; Fr. Syst. ii. p. 95. 

 On beech-leaves, principally on the main nerve. Builth, 



South Wales, W. Phillips. 



1623. P. (Mollisia) tripolii, B. & Br. Erumpens, aurantiaca, 

 margine nigrello cincta; sporidiis oblique ellipticis binucleatis. 



On dead stems of Asto' tripoUum. King's Lynn, Sept. 10, 

 1875, C. B. Plowright. 



Minute, erumpent, surrounded by the blackened cuticle, 

 which often splits into tooth-like lacinige. Hymenium orange. 

 Paraphyses flexuous, sometimes forked. Sporidia obliquely 

 elliptic, '0005 inch long, half as much wide. A curious 

 species, reminding one somewhat of P. fusarioides. 



1624. Helotium lahurni^ B. & Br. Breviter stipitatum, 

 cupulis extus villosis furfuraceis pallidis, margine inflexo ; 

 disco ochraceo losticolori ; sporidiis fusiformibus quadrinu- 

 cleatis. 



On decorticated branches of Cytisus laburnum, or beneath 

 the cuticle, Avhich it seems to throw off. Menmuir, Rev. M. 

 Anderson. 



Sporidia '0009 inch long. 



Mr. Phillips, who has paid great attention to the genus, 

 writes that the only species approaching it in the fruit is Helo- 

 tium saliceUum, Fr. Karsten has a species, Pezicida suhlici- 

 formisj which has sporidia nearly the same size and shape, 

 with two nuclei, but is otherwise different. 



