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



759. Monotospora megalospora, n. s. Floccis reetis simplici- 

 bus, sporis obovatis magnis Isevibus. On the dead bark of a yew- 

 tree, King^s ClifFe. 



Jet-black. Flocci erect, straight, nearly equal, simple, arti- 

 culated. Spores terminal, obovate, even, •0014r--00133 inch long. 



Plate XV. fig. 11. «. A group of threads with their spores; b. spores : 

 both magnified. 



760. Botrytis Jonesii, n. B. Floccis erectis sursum ramosis; 

 ramis ramulisque divergentibus ssepissime oppositis ; ultimis fas- 

 ciculatis, centrali semper sterili acutissimo ; sporis subglobosis 

 echinulatis. 



Accompanying Mucor Caninus and other moulds on the dung 

 of animals, as on that of dogs and rabbits. Near Woolwich, 

 Mrs. Col. Jones. Wothorpe, Norths. 



Flocci erect, tinged with fawn colour, simple below, with a few 

 straight main branches above, mostly at right angles and often 

 opposite. These are again divided once or twice in the same way, 

 the central one being always barren, the others bearing about the 

 middle fascicles of fertile branchlets, each tipped with a subglobose 

 echinulate spore, '0003 inch long. 



Drawings of this with several other interesting species were 

 communicated by Mrs. Col. Jones. Original specimens accord 

 precisely with our own. The species is one of the most beautiful 

 and interesting of a very handsome group. 



Plate XV. fig. 12. a. Fertile thread; b. spores : both magnified. 



761 . Rhinotrichum Opuntia, n, s. Floccis furcatis hie illic 

 turgidis ; sporis in ramulis ultimis clavatis transversim seriatis. 

 Near Woolwich, Mrs. Col. Jones. 



White. Flocci rather thick, simple below, two or three times 

 forked, slight, swollen here and there; ultimate divisions clavate, 

 beset with transverse rows of globose spores. 



The characters of this species are so curious, that we are un- 

 willing to omit it, though we have neither specimen nor descrip- 

 tion. Mrs. Jones's figures however of those species of which we 

 have specimens are so correct, that we have no hesitation in 

 giving it implicit credence. 



' Plate XVI. fig. 13. Portion of plant magnified. 



761*. Papulaspora sepedonioides, Preuss in Sturm's Deutsch. 

 Fl. heft 30. t. 9. On rice paste on which blood-rain had been 

 propagated, Kmg's Cliffe, Aug. 1853. 



This very beautiful mould consists of decumbent, articulate, 

 colourless threads, which produce short, erect branches, each 

 surmounted by a large red cellular body about '0018 inch in dia- 



