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



*F. (Incusse) angulata, Fr. Summ. p. 411. On Cytisus Labur- 

 num. Lambley, Notts., M. J. B. 



Desmazieres finds, in Fries, no. 72, which in our specimen 

 is without fruit, sausage-shaped sporidia. 



849. V. (Incusaj) taleola, Fr. Summ. p. 411. Common on 

 dead oak branches. 



Asci linear ; sporidia uniseriate elliptic when young, broadly 

 lanceolate rather irregular and uniscptate when mature, *0008- 

 •001 inch long. Mr. Currey^s >S^. taleola is identical with S. lei- 

 phcpmia, and different from this, which belongs to a different 

 section. 



Plate IX. fig. 11. a. Ascus with young fruit and parnpliysis magnified; 

 b. young fruit magnified; c. mature fruit magnified. 



850. V. (Incusfc) dryina, Curr. /. c. p. 278. On dead oak 

 branches. Weybridge, F. Currey, Esq. 



Sporidia oblong, strongly curved, '0003 inch long. 



851. V. (Obvallatse) Platanigera, n. s. Disco minuto albido ; 

 peritheciis paucis, ostiolis obscuris ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis lan- 

 ceolatis minutis. 



On plane. Leicestershire, Rev. A. Bloxam. 



Perithecia 4-7 in a group, globose, subdccumbent, neck about 

 the same length, oblique; disk small, white; ostiola obscure; 

 asci clavatc ; sporidia hyaline, lanceolate, -0007 inch long. 



An obscure but distinct species. 



Plate IX. fig. 12. a. Single peritheciura magnified; h. ascus; c. spo- 

 ridia. 



852. V. (Obvallatffi) tetratruplia, u. s. Pustulis minutis ; peri- 

 theciis ovatis ; ascis lincaribus ; sporidiis quaternis fcnestratis. 



On twigs of alder. Batheaston, Feb. 1852, C. E. B. 



Forming minute pustules which pierce the cuticle by means 

 of a flat pallid disk studded with black ostiola; asci linear; 

 sporidia four, '0009 -'001 inch long, yellow-brown, oblong, at 

 first uni- triseptate, at length fenestrate. 



Fruit strongly resembling that of S'. elongata. 



Plate X. fig. 13. Ascus and sporidium magnified. 



853. V. (Obvallatffi) fenestrata, n. s. Peritheciis fuscis, ostiolis 

 obsoletis; sporidiis elliptico-oblongis uni- triseptatis utrinque 

 appendiculatis fenestratis. 



On dead oak twigs. Orton Wood, Leicestershire, Rev. A. 

 Bloxam. On alder. Spye Park, March 1859. 



Perithecia forming little pustules, brownish ; disk narrow ; 

 ostiola obsolete ; sporidia "002 inch long, elliptic-oblong, uni- 

 scptate, with a small appendage at either extremity ; endochrome 

 divided into innumerable cells ; septum at length obsolete, and 

 surface of the sporidia granulated. In the plant on alder, spo- 



