348 Eev. M. J. Berkeley & Mr. C. E. Broome on Bntisli Fungi. 



1395. R. icoolJiopensis^ Renn. Minutus, primnm candidus, 

 dein albidus ; cupulis basi substipitiformi incrassatis, tuber- 

 culatis, sursum pilis mollibiis vestitis ; paraphysibus simpli- 

 cibus ; ascis clavatis ; cysto sporidiifero apicem versus sito ; 

 sj^oridiis fusiformibus. 



On birds' dung, mixed with filaments of Miicor and mostly 

 borne by tliem. Mr. Renny, with figures. 



Cups \ a line ('041) wide and high ; sporidia normally 64, 

 "0007 inch long. Minute, scattered, at first pure white, then 

 dingy, with a thick stem-like base, which is studded with 

 large semi-globular warts, covered above with close-set hairs, 

 wdiicli form a fringe to the margin ; at length expanded, the 

 hairs disappearing with age ; substance of base vesicular ; 

 the cells often 'OOIS-'OOIS inch in diameter, much smaller 

 above. 



Plate IX. fig. 12. a. plant, magnified 100 diameters ; b. cells of stem, 

 compressed under the microscope ; c. edge of cup ; d. asci with cyst and 

 paraphysis; e. sporidia. 



'^ Hypocrea lenta, Fr. 



On dead wood. St. Catharine's, Bath, Nov. 1866. 



1396. Sphceria (Pertusas) pcedida^ B. & Br. Peritheciis 

 ovatis, rugosis, opacis, liberis, brunneo-nigris ; ostiolo conico, 

 demum deciduo ; ascis linearibus ; sporidiis uniserialibus, 

 medio contractis. 



On beech. Langridge, April 1859. 



Quite superficial, confluent ; sporidia •0005-*0006 inch long, 

 •0002-'0003 wide. 



Plate X. fig. 13. a. plant, more or less magnified ; b. ascus ; c. spo- 

 ridia. 



1397. Chcetomiuni rufulum, B. & Br. Peritheciis subglo- 

 bosis, eximie cellulosis, nifulis, e mycelio tenui oriundis ; ascis 

 brevibus, obtusis ; sporidiis octonis, globosis, granulatis, bi- 

 seriatis. 



On a paper box under a bell-glass. Elmhurst, April 24, 

 1871. 



Sporidia when young •0004-*0005 inch in diameter, when 

 full-grown '0007. Perithecia globose, with a pointed apex, com- 

 posed of about three rows of coarse cells, of a pallid ochre at 

 first, attached to the paper by a few white threads about '032 

 in diameter ; ostiolum, if any, very inconspicuous ; asci mostly 

 curved, obtuse at either end, the narrow base soon losing all 

 signs of attachment and floating freely in the perithecium ; 

 sporidia spherical when mature, strongly granulated, of a pale 

 brown tint, and containing a small nucleus. 



Plate X. fig. 14. a. plant on paper ; b. perithecium ; c. asci ; d. spo- 

 ridia. 



