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Sepals blackish at the edge. Petals five, veined, small, not 

 contiguous, star-like in the water. "Stamens few, mostly six, about 

 as long as the pistils. Stigma short, somewhat oblique. Eeceptacle 

 somewhat conical, thicker than the peduncle, with the usual 

 annulus at the base. Inner edge of carpels nearly straight, outer 

 semicircular, Fr. ped. about one inch long, somewhat exceeding 

 the leaves, curved at the base. Flowering and fruiting in deep 

 water." 



Extracts aitir Notices of Boofts auir ffitmoiv*. 



NEW BRITISH AND IRISH FUNGI. 



The following five new species of Fungi new to science, found 

 in Great Britain or Ireland, have lately been described :— 



Unmularia Cn/ptosteyia, Pirn.— Forming a very delicate snow- 

 white bloom on decaying seeds of Cryptotfagia in a stove at 

 Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Threads well developed, simple or 

 slightly branched, spores large, oblong-cylindrical, rounded at the 

 ends, about -03-04 x -006-007 mm., with one to three very delicate 

 septa inserted on the extremities of the threads. March, 1880. 

 Greenwood Pirn, in 'Grevillea,' viii., p. 150. 



Peziza electnna, Ph. & PL— Gregarious, minute, subgelatmous, 

 glabrous, amber-coloured, disconcave, marginate ; stem rather 

 short, firm ; asci narrowly clavate, pointed at the summit ; 

 sporidia 8, biseriate, cylindraceo-fusiform, -005 x -001 mm. On 

 decaying leaves of Finns sylvestris. Forres, N.B., intimately 

 associated with Dacn/myces succineus, Fr.- The cups are •l--5mm. 

 across, paler on the margin ; the stem is generally darker at the 

 base. W. Phillips, in 'Grevillea,' vm., p. 155. 



The three following are described and figured by Mr William 

 Phillips in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' for Sept. 4, pp. 308, duy :— 



Ped:, ( Humana) m#*r*. - Crowded or scattered sessile, 

 concave when dry, applanate when moist, submargmate, chestnut- 

 brown, glabrous, asci cylindraceo -clavate ; sporxdia 8 ovate -or -sub- 

 globose, smooth, with one large nucleus, -014-016 X ;01 1-012 mm 

 paraph^ses from one to six times branched summits proh ferou ly 

 pyriform, or moniliform, or only slightly enlarged On a mix ure 

 of lime and cow-dung spread on the trunks of apple trees ; S prmg. 

 Clifton [near Bristol] , Mr. Cedric Bucknal . |-3mm. across The 

 parses are rem arable ^J^^g^^^^ 



cells of the exterior of tne cup are biu<ui, w 



8lob S ; „ ,1*.,. r ) t£ « r ^r^s^X: s& 



concave, thin pale yellow ™»«» '™8 claTat /. rid ia 



aexuous, pointed white ^n^wci printed, -01-018 x -001- 



OoTomm "On" "decayed *tok-£w October. Leigh Down, 

 Son M, Cclfe SctaU. Caps -2-8 mm. across. The hairs 



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