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nearly entire, more or less involute, whitish, xcidiospores — 
globose or somewhat irregular in form from mutual pressure, 
—— minutely warted, contents deep orange-yellow, 95°35. pe 
dia 
‘On leaves and young shoots of Phillyrea latifolia L., Pevensey 
Churchyard, Sussex, August, 1907. 
Every shoot of the year, including the leaves, was attacked 
and span by the parasite, and during the month of August 
were rendered conspicuous by the copious Sevalielatelond of orange 
spores ; nce the pardonable mistake on the part of a sn 
rane ate in stating that > was the first occasion on which t 
bush had produced flower: 
phillyree has hace, on one previous occasion in England, 
being pllocted by Mr. F. Paxton, near Chichester, on Phillyrea 
me. The specimens were submitted to Dr. ooke, who 
frigid the fungus in his Handbook as var. phillyree of Acidium 
crassum Pers. No diagnosis of this some was given, hence the 
ally k 
aa opTeGens Tulasne in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 43 ii. 87 (1854). 
According to the law of priority the above name must repla 
the more familiar P. swaveolens Rostr., as shown by the follwide 
Bynonyiny -—— 
Caoma obtegens Link Obs. ii. 27 (1791). 
Uredo suaveolens Pers. Obs. Mye. ii. 24 (1796). 
obtegens is parasitic on the leaves and stem of Cnicus 
arvensis Hoff: elium of the fungus hybernates in the 
rootstock of the host, hence when a plant is once infected it 
aes Sa dise ©) time. Diseased plan pear sooner 
the sickly pale green colour and upright leaves; no flowers are 
produced. 
As diseased plants do not produce seed, a systematic infection 
of healthy plants, which is readily effected, would rid the country 
of one of the most injurious of weeds. 
MUCEDINACES. 
Scop S CO: Er Bainier in Bull. Soc. Myc. France, 
xxiii. 197, t. 16, “figs. 3-6 (1907). 
asma: aint of crowded strands of mycelium matted 
together and formin, effused prostrate, snow-white pile; fertile 
branches short, rising las, slightly clavate ; conidio 
elongate, clavate, springing as an apical from the fertile 
brane conidiophore a chain of cn gep?| formed, 
elliptical, smooth, hyaline conidia, 7-8 x 4-6 p. (Plate 489, 
“On decaying herbaceous stems, Ealing. 
The genus Scopulariopsis is new to the British flora. Its 
