366 Rev. 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, is 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. Spumarioides the flocci are black. 



385. D. dcedaleum, n. s. Stipitibus brevibus coalitis peridiis- 

 que dgedalino-connatis sinuatis pallide latedtiis albo farinaceis ; 

 floccis candidis ; sporis atro-purpureis. In great abundance in a 

 cucumber-frame, Milton, Norths., Mr. J. Henderson, April 26, 

 1843. 



Spreading far and wdde 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, siniiated, 

 forming a dsedaloid 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 other particulars. 



386. Stemonitis Physaroides, A. & S. p. 103. 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. VYe have precisely the 

 same thing from Ohio. 



387. S. violacea, Fr. /. c. vol. iii. p. 162. On different species 

 of moss : common. 



A¥e 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. Enei'thenema elegans^ Bowm. in Linn. Tr. vol. xvi. p. 151. 

 t. 16. 



Perfect specimens of this very curious production have lately 

 been transmitted by the Bev. M. A. Curtis from Lower Carolina, 



