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PHAEANGELLA EMPETRI (PHILLIPS) BOUD. 
(= PHAEANGELLA SMITHIANA BOUD.).* 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
It appears that this interesting discomycete was first described 
by Mr. W. Phillips under the name of Cenangium empetri, 
n. sp., from specimens found by Professor Trail on leaves of 
Empetrum nigrum in Orkney, August, 1888. Phillips’s de- 
scription was published in The Scottish Naturalist for April, 
1891, page 89, and remained there unnoticed until Professor 
Trail drew Miss A. L. Smith’s attention to it in September, 
I9g12, as being most likely the same fungus described and 
figured by M. Boudier in Trans. B. M. Soc., Vol. III., Part 2, 
page 81, Plate IV. (1908-9), from specimens collected on 
similar host-plants in Ayrshire by Mr. D. A. Boyd, and in 
Ross-shire by Miss Smith. Phillips’s collection of fungi being 
in the British Museum, Miss Smith was able to re-examine 
the type specimen, and found, as Professor Trail suggested, 
the two to be identical. M. Boudier, through Miss Smith, has 
authorized the substitution of Phillips’s prior specific name. 
See, Tr. B.M.S., Vol. IV., Part 1, page 74. 
It is rather remarkable that Phillips’s diagnosis, and also 
the one drawn up by M. Boudier, were incomplete in respect 
to spore characteristics. Neither had noticed the dark olive- 
brown uniseptate mature spores, hence each placed their 
fungus in a genus with continuous spores. Probably. both 
examined immature ascophores. M. Boudier amended his 
description. See Tr. B.M.S., Vol. III., Part 5; page 324 
(IgII-12). 
As stated in Nat., July, 1912, the same fungus was found 
on Empetrum .nigrum on Seamer Moor, near Scarborough, 
August, 1911, by Mr. T._B. Roe and sent to the writer. It 
has also been found by Mr. Roe on Broxa Moor. — Considering 
all the circumstances in connection with this much-named 
discomycete it may not be amiss to publish herewith the 
description taken from the Scarborough specimens :— 
Ascophores scattered, erumpent then free, sessile, subglobose 
then turbinate, disc at first concave then plane, 4-} line across, 
dark olive, margin incurved at first then erect, uneven, exterior of 
cup blackish brown, coriaceous, vertically wrinkled, base half 
diameter of disc at maturity, cells forming sides of the cup linear 
below slightly expanding at the margin, 3-4 p thick, outer dark 
brown, inner hyaline. 
* See Naturalist, 1912, pp. 206-7. 
Ig13 July 1. 
