PKOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Cantbritrge I^UosojjjweI Sforktg, 



Notes on some of the Rarer or more Interesting Fungi collected 

 during the past year. By Professor H. Marshall Ward, Sc.D., 

 F.R.S. 



[Read 4 February 1901.] 



The following notes are offered in the hope that, if they do 

 not add much to our knowledge of the life history of any particular 

 forms in detail, they are useful as records of species and facts — 

 some of them new — which have come under my observation in 

 the field and in the laboratory. They are by no means to be 

 regarded as the results of attempts to find or to found new species, 

 but simply as facts which have turned up during work — chips 

 from a workshop, as it were, and the only merit that can be claimed 

 for them is that they are fresh from the hands of the workers. 



Synchytrium Succisce, De By. 



During one of our botanical excursions in the Fens in the 

 summer, I found the young leaf-rosettes of Scabiosa Succisa 

 covered with the small glistening yellow pimples produced by De 

 Bary's Synchytrium Succisce. Examination revealed the presence 

 of the zoosporangia in the hypertrophied cells, and uni-fiagellate 

 zoospores escaped in water. All the details so far observed con- 

 firm the accuracy of Schroter's figures and description 1 ""'he 

 record of finding S. Succisce in Cambridgeshire i c ' 

 since it is I believe the first time this fungus has 

 in England, and it has only once been found in Scotia^ 

 Trail of Aberdeen 2 . 



1 Cohn's Beitrage zur Biol. Bel. i. 1870. 



2 Scott. Nat. 1899, No. xxiv. p. 58. 



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