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true S. Verbenaca L.., and is t x 
vivibly oblongifélin Baste best referred to its entire-leaved 
This will necessitate the ae of S. Verbenaca auct. ant 
to the coh of S. inoides Pourr., and of S. ¢ tina 
Syme and S. Marquandii Druce ‘ that of S. Farhad L. var. 
oblongifolia Benth. 
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NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH FUNGI. 
By Grorce Masser, F.L.S. 
greter rye 
Hypocunus soxuant Prill. & Del. ull. Soc. Myc. France, 
vii. 220 (1891); Sace. Syll. ete xi. 130 (905 ). 
Corticitum_ vagum Berk. & Curt. var. solani Burt. in Colorado 
‘ d 91. 
Hyphasma effused, aire about 150 » thick, slightly granular, 
cracked when dry, greyish-white, itera inged brown, scarcely 
adhering to the eatole, Basidia broadly club-shaped, apex 
gaia 10-20 x 18 yp, sterigmata four, straight, eyinial 
3 ms aes elliptical with an apiculus at the base 
hyaline 10 x 6 
n the ‘ioe portion of living potato-haulms. Mortlake, 
Surrey ey recorded from Grignon, Savoy, and the 
United v0 tes 
ing a thin greyish-white weft on the livin ng haulm ; 
although parasitic, no injury has been experienced from its pre- 
Rolfs considers this fungus to represent the fruiting con- 
dition of Rhizoctonia. This point is discussed in detail under the 
next species. 
SPHERIACER. 
Sgesomeonaics crrcINANs Saccardo, Syll. Fung. ii. 88 (1883). 
othecium circinans Fuckel in Bot. Zeit. xix. 251, t. 10, fig. 8 
assy) “Fackel, Symb. Mycol. 142 aged 
Kunze, Fung. Sel. . No. 259; Briosi e Cavara, 
Perithecia e erumpent more or less scattered, ee seated 
amongst a weft of reddish or violet-coloured mycelium, globose 
with a slightly protruding mouth, black, glabrous, 100-150 © diam. 
Asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, spores irregularly dinkiclions: oad 
tical, 3-septate, pansies mes at the aren septum. 
interior ce , Sii@iline 
32-35 x 10-12 p. Para hises ‘leader Hijalltie Pyenidium stage 
