Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 455 



An obscure species, with scattered, extremely minute, sub- 

 hemispherical, depressed, mouthless perithecia ; asci short ; spo- 

 ridia "0007 inch long, constricted in the middle, uniseptate. 



Plate XVII. fig. 34. Ascus and sporidia magnified. 



982. S. (Cauhcolse) caulium, Fr., Desm. Ann. d. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. 

 voLxv. tab. 14. fig. 2 a. On dead stems of Epilobium hirsutum. 

 Batheaston, Dec. 1858, C. E. Broome. 



Exactly the plant of Fries, Scl. Suec. 



983. S. (Foliicolae) Cariceti, n. sp. Peritheciis subglobosis 

 immersis ; ostiolis punctiformibus ; sporidiis linearibus curvatis 

 utrinque acutis. 



In marshy ground, on Aira ccespitosa. Batheaston, Dec. 1858. 



Perithecia subglobose, minute; ostiola minute; asci clavate; 

 sporidia biseriate, linear, curved, •003-'004 inch long, acute at 

 either end. 



Plate XVII. fig. 35. Ascus and sporidia magnified. 



*S. Rabenhorstii, B. & Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. ix. p. 324 

 = Valsa suffusa, Fr. 



984. S. (Foliicolse) microspila, n. sp. Peritheciis globosis 

 sparsis, singulo pluribusve macula minuta fusca e mycelio sub- 

 tili oriunda immersis; sporidiis oblongo-ellipticis uniseptatis. 



On leaves of Epilobium montanum. Orton Wood, near Ather- 

 stone. Rev. A. Bloxam. 



Perithecia scattered, globose, one or more immersed in a mi- 

 nute brown spot arising from the delicate mycelium ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia •0002—0005 inch long, oblongo- elliptic, uni- 

 septate. 



Plate XVII. fig. 36. Ascus and sporidia magnified. 



985. Rhizoctonia Mentha, n. s. Primum floccoso-csespitosa 

 fulva, demum compacta violacea. 



On mint in gardens, just above the surface of the soil. Bath- 

 easton, C. E. Broome. 



When young, consisting of little tufts of short tawny threads 

 resembling in structure, though not in colour, those of R. viola- 

 cea; creeping below, erect above and slightly branched, and 

 bearing apparently at their tips subglobose conidia -OOS-'OOi 

 inch in diameter. The tips at length acquire a violet tint, which 

 gradually spreads as the tufts become compact and converted 

 into sclerotiiform bodies as large as a grain of mustard-seed, 

 which are connected with each other by a violet web. These 

 bodies are in general quite smooth, but occasionally they retain 

 about them little tawny patches which still show traces of the 

 original threads. There is no papillseform apex as in R. Cro- 

 corum. 



This appears to be the first time that anything like fruit has 



