100 DECADES OF BRITISH FUNGI, 
I believe, to Mr. Currey, to whom a specimen was sent, not to be a 
Valsa at all; since that gentleman observes, “I make out a distinet 
black crust or stroma, uniting the perithecia, which are effused and not 
arranged in circles, as in Valsa. It seems to me to belong to the Con- 
crescentes. The fruit agrees with the figure of Falsa syngenesia in the 
inn. Trans." Whether this is also the character of Spheria Frangule, 
Moug., I am not in a position to say, therefore have not included it as 
a synonym of the present species. 
The third species, which I found in the same locality, on Elder, was 
unfortunately confined to a single fragmhent of a stick. It approxi- 
mated somewhat in habit to Diatrypella quercina and its allies; the 
asci were elongated and stipitate, containing numerous sausage-shaped 
sporidia. It seems to me to be sufficiently distinct to be regarded asa 
separate species, but I should not propose it as such upon the faith of 
a single specimen. Should it occur again, it could not have a more 
appropriate name than D. affinis, under which I have transferred it to 
my herbarium 
$- Vivsa 4 AMYGDALINA, n. sp.; peritheciis paucis (4-6), circinatis, 
atris, prominulis; collibus rectis convergentibus, non confluentibus, 
disco aurantio-claro convexo obtectis; ascis cylindricis ; sporidiis uni- 
serialibus, amygdaliformibus, hyalinis.—On small twigs of Hornbeam. 
Hi epu i eese 1866. Forming dark bullate spots, caused 
by the biack perithecia nestling beneath the thin epidermis, somewhat 
AES pisc the ostiola, which are at first covered with a bright 
orange disk, at length naked.  Perithecia from 4-6 in a group, black, 
with straight convergent necks, never confluent. Asci cylindrical; con- 
taining eight almond-shaped, large, uniseriate, hyaline sporidia, occur- 
rig sometimes on the same twigs as Falsa bitorulosa, B. and Br., from 
which it is distinguishable with the naked eye, by the dark prominent 
perithecia and bright orange disk. The sporidia closely resemble those 
of some Pezize. (Fig. 21, ascus and sporidia, x 300 
. 9. VALSA THELEBOLA, Fr. Pulviniform or conical, depressed or 
subtruncate. Ascioblong. Sporidia biseriate, amber-coloured, with a 
: greenish tint or hyaline, slightly curved, obtuse at the extremities, 
. commonly ciliate at each end, uniseptate. —Curr. Linn. Trans. xxii. 
F 280. t. 48. (. 157 and 159. Sphæria thelebola, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 408. 
. n. 198. Spheria ditissima, Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1856, iii. p. 117. 
| Sieen fiction Tal. 8d. = fer ii. p. 166. t. 21. f. 1-18. 
