JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



OCTOBEE 1885. 



TEANSxlCTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



XIV.— iV^ew; British Micro-Fungi. By G. Massee, F.E.M.S. 



(Read 10th June, 1885.) 

 Plate XIII. 



Didymium hypnophihim n. sp. (Plate XIII. figs. 8-12). SjDor- 

 angia sessile on a broad base, hemispherical or elongated, sub- 

 depressed, powdered with white amorphous granules of lime; 

 columella hemispherical, large, white ; capilhtium of violet-coloured 

 threads which ai,'e attached to each other at intervals in a fascicu- 

 late manner, thus forming a loose irregular net, furnished sparingly 

 with slender fusiform thickenings, which sometimes contain a few 

 yellowish granules of lime; spores globose, large, spinulose, dull 

 violet. On moss, Scarborough. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII. 



Fig. 1. — StiPjum flcxuosum, nat. size. 



„ l'<. — Same x 30. 



„ 2. — Same, section of head X 3.50. 



„ 3, — Same, portion of head witli cunidia X 500. 



„ 4. — /lelmint/iospoi turn puiniluin, i)ar&H\ti<^ upon Stilbam flcxiiosnm, x 30. 



„ 5.— Fame X 500. 



„ C. — Arthroljotri/s rosea, nat. size. 



„ Ca. — Same x 350. 



„ 7.— Same, conidium x 500. 



„ 8. — Di'Iyinium liypnopkilurn, nat. size. 



„ 9.— Same x 30. 



„ 10. — Same, section of plant X 50. 



„ 11. — Same, portion of capillitium attached to wall of sporangium, x 500, 



„ ] 2. — Same, spores x 500. 



,, 13. — Corepthoria parwloxa, nat. size. 



„ 14.— Same x 3.50. 



„ 1.5.— Same, conidia x 500. 



„ 16. — Coreptlujris epiinyces, nat. size. 



„ 17.— Same x 350. 



„ 18.— Same, conidia X 500. 



„ 19. — Sporidcurnium utrum, 8[K>rc X 500. 

 8er. 2.— Vol. V. 3 D 



