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



Perfectly superficial. Stroma and spores bright orange, fringed 

 with black articulated hairs. Spores shortly fusiform, slightly 

 lunate, resembling, except in the latter character, those of Neot- 

 tiospora. 



It is most singular that a plant so different in general struc- 

 ture, though alike in colour and spores, should exist upon the 

 same leaf with N. Caricum. In the present state of our know- 

 ledge of such matters we must regard it as distinct, though we 

 cannot help suggesting the idea that the perithecium in the one 

 is represented by the ciliating hairs in the other, a structure 

 which was pointed out by one of us as a matter of analogy between 

 Sph&ronema blepharistoma, Berk., and Volutella Bucci, many years 

 since. What makes the resemblance more striking in the pre- 

 sent instance is that the spores in either case grow in the same 

 mode from the stroma, which inclines to a globose form. 



Plate XI. fig. 3. a. Portion of plant showing the hairs and stroma with 

 the sporophores and spores, magnified ; b. spores highly magnified. 



497. Illosporium carneum, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 259; Berk. 

 Br. Fung. no. 293. On Peltidea canina, Apethorpe, Norths. 



498. /. corallinum, Rob. in Desm. no. 1551. On Borrera te- 

 nella, Ulting, Essex, H. Piggot, Esq. 



A beautiful specimen of this exquisite species has been just 

 transmitted to us from Chelmsford without any distinct locality. 

 This is clearly /. coccineum, Libert, and consequently of Corda. 



499. /. coccineum, Fr. /. c. On Pertusaria communis, Fal- 

 mouth, Miss Warren ; Durdham Down, G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 



500. Epicoccum neglectum, Desm. no. 540 (olim Perisporium 

 Zed). On a decayed water-melon, King's Cliffe, Oct. 1840; on 

 dead plants of Potamogeton, West of England, C. E. Broome, 

 1850. 



At first sight our earlier specimen differs greatly, the stromata 

 being seated on a broad blood-red spot, but the structure is ex- 

 actly the same, and the greater development of the spot may de- 

 pend upon the more juicy nature of the matrix. Uredo Equiseti, 

 Engl. FL, is an Epicoccum with smooth spores, but we have not 

 at present sufficiently good specimens to propose it as a new 

 species. 



501. (Edemium atrum, Corda in St. Deutsch. Fl. Fasc. 6. t. 9. 

 On fallen branches, King's Cliffe, Capel Curig, M. J . Berkeley, 

 and at Thame, Dr. Ayres. 



The structure of this plant is at present very imperfectly ascer- 

 tained. The flocci are of a vinous- brown, and here and there 

 invested with mucilage. The larger sporangiiform bodies which 

 adhere to them seem very much to resemble an Epicoccum with 

 its globose or somewhat obovate scabrous spores. 



