NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI, 133 
- P. stipite curto, gracili, equali, apice denique nutante; spor- 
angio primo flavido, dein nigro; columella leviter colorata, 
convexa, prope equatorem vesicule apicalis regis . — 
physin magnam hyalinam prebente, ubi adest in fun 
constrictio profundula; sporis hyalinis, dlussime ayslid, elliptieo- 
oblongis, 12-14 » x 5-6. (Tab. 245, f. 7). 
On dog’s dung, eae ‘Quinton (Wa), March, April. Stem 
3-1 mm. high, Arai the sporange becomes black ; afterwards 
increasing to 8-4 m Sporange 0:10-0:12 mm. diam. Dis- 
tinguished from P. : Casati not only by its much smaller size, but 
also by its peculiar apophysis, _—. is almost as large as 
sporange, but slightly less in diameter, and not granular. 
the name. It can scarcely be a badly- noutiahed fori of P. Cesatii, 
as it grew luxuriantly on a fide substr 
brownish ; sporangium globose, glabrous, silk wht ite, then black 
our Oaks 
Mycena tpealorioniita — bass, and leucogala). Stem reaching 
6-7 m re, always swollen below. Sporange about 0-25 
mm. “Pages Tab. 245, . 8). 
This species is usually confounded with M. fusiger Link. 
Spinellus Jase Van Tiegh.),} from which it differs mainly in the 
wing points:—In M. maecrocar ~ the mycelium is usually 
confined to the interior of the Agaric; in M. fusiger the mycelium, 
obtuse. When viewed in the mass, the ramen nee in colour o 
i ay is very decided: the number of spores in a spor angium 
12. Sporodinia aaa Link, Spec. Plant. vi. 94 Sinae 
Bonorden, Handb. p. 125, fig. Ea ety? De Base, we 
P. 218, pl. 80, figs. 1, 2 (1864); Van Tiegh. Nouy. Rech. p 58, 
Pl. I, heh 40-2 (1875) ; Saccando, Mich. i. 551 (1879) ; cata 
} See, e. ee se he sae Gouin? Oct. 1883, io. “135, ‘whiiels on p. 279 is stated to 
be the spo f M. fusiger, but is evidently drawn from a specimen 
iacrocarpus. ys: fusiger Cooke, Handb, p. 631, is the true species. 
