430 Rev. M. J. Berkeley on British Fungi. 
L.—Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. 
Berxe.ey, M.A., F.L.S. 
[ With Five Plates. ] 
[Continued from p. 365. ] 
HENDERSONIA.* , 
Perithecia intus strato prolifero sporas longas septatas 
edente vestita. 
208. Hendersonia elegans. On culms of the common reed. 
Tansor, Norths. April, 1838. Forming little dark brown spots, 
in the centre of which is seated a single shining perithecium, 
the upper part of which causes a little projection above the 
surface. Perithecia lined with a gelatinous stratum, which 
gives rise to long broadly fusiform pedunculate colourless 
spores, with from 6—8 dissepiments. Articulations sometimes 
swollen, often quite even; each of the central ones containing 
a single large globose nucleus, with occasionally a few granules. 
Some of the spores are abortive. 
This most interesting and well-characterized genus I have 
named after my friend Mr. J. Henderson, who has made many 
additions to the list of British Fungi, and who is a most in- 
defatigable and accurate botanist. It is allied to the genus 
Diplodia, but is well distinguished by the more highly de- 
veloped spores, which are colourless and pellucid. 
Tas. XI. fig. 9. a, culm of reed with H. elegans, nat. size; 6, a small 
portion of a horizontal section magnified; c, spores; d, nucleus; e, abor- 
tive spores, highly magnified. 
209. Geaster fimbriatus, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 16. Nor- 
folk. Rev. R. B. Francis, whose plant was supposed at the 
time of the publication of the English Flora to be G. rufescens, 
a much more common species. A single specimen has also 
been found by Mr. Churchill Babington at Clifton, near Not- 
tingham. 
210. Lycoperdon saccatum, Schum., Fr. Syst. Mye. vol. i. 
p- 35. In a boggy meadow at Hayes, Kent. Miss Read, from 
whom I have an admirable drawing. 
*211. Hlaphomyces granulatus, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p.58. 
E. asperulus, Vitt. Mon. Tub. p. 69. t. 4. fig. 6. Vittadini has 
shown that this genus belongs to the same group as Tuéer. I 
find the structure of the fruit in both our species to agree, 
except that in the present the sporidia are much larger. The 
central substance when young is tender and juicy, and consists 
* Other species of this genus are included in Corda’s Sporocadus = Di- 
plodia + Hendersonia, &c. 
The name Sporocadus, though appropriate to true Diplodie, cannot be 
used for the species now separated under the name of Hendersonia. 
