128 Rev, M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Funyi. 



found in Flintshire, on Pol. squamosus, and has also been ga- 

 thered on Agaricus ostreatus. Spharia aurea, Grev., is a Nectria. 

 The species from Laxton on Boletus is H. luteo-virens. 



Plate V. fig. 35. a. ascus, magnified; b. sporidia, '001 inch long, 

 highly magnified. 



1176. Hypocrea delicatula, Tul. Ann. d. So. Nat. ser. 4. vol. 

 xiii. p. 18; Carp. Ease. iii. tab. 4. figs. 7-13. 



Fir-plantations. Lucknam, Apri'l 1866. 



This extremely interesting fungus is nearly allied to H. citrina, 

 of which it has the habit. It forms patches which are easily 

 separable from the matrix, of a delicate cream-colour, studded 

 with the fawn-coloured perithecia. 



1177. Spharia (Denudatse) Epochnii, n. s. Peritheciis pri- 

 mum conicis, dein subglobosis, coUapsis, stipatis, atro-olivaceis, 

 granulatis ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis uniserialibus, fusiformibus, 

 medio constrictis, demum triseptatis; conidiis elongatis, tri- 

 septatis, apice incrassatis. 



On Epochnium fungorum, of which it is the perfect form. 

 Warleigh, near Bath, March 1866. 



Perithecia at first pale bottle-green, crowded in the centre of the 

 Epochnium, then black green, granulated, sometimes depressed 

 at the summit, with a minute pore. Asci clavate, containing a 

 single row of triseptate fusiform sporidia, •OOl-'OOll long, 

 strongly constricted in the centre, at length pale brown, when 

 they resemble a good deal the naked spores of the Epochnium. 

 The sporidia are at first uniseptate, with two nuclei in each 

 division. 



Plate V. fig. 36. a. plant, magnified ; b. portion of mycelium with 

 conidia (epochnium) ; c. conidia, highly magn. ; d. ascus with sporidia, 

 magn. ; e. sporidia, young and old, highly magnified. 



1178. S. (Caulicolae) AlliaricB, Auersw. Rab. no. 261. 

 On Erysimum Alliaria. Jedburgh, A. Jerdon, Esq. 



1179. Dothidea melanops, Tul. Carp. ii. p. 73, tab. 10. 

 Abundant on beech near Jedburgh, but without perithecia. 



A. Jerdon, Esq. 



Mr. Jerdon's specimens, though on beech, correspond better 

 with Tulasne's typical form on oak than his variety fagicola. 

 The stylospores are just the same, and not comparatively short, 

 as in the variety. 



1180. Hysterium varium, Fr. Svst. vol. ii. p. 582; Duby, 

 Hyst. p. 28. 



On decorticated branches of yew. Wynd Cliff, April 18, 

 1866. 



Scattered over pallid spots ; perithecia elliptic, subimmersed, 

 with a slight keel and very obscure aperture, quite even; asci 

 elongated ; sporidia uniseriate, elliptic, slightly pointed at either 



