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NEW OR CRITICAL MICROFUNGI. 
By Annie Lorraw Smira. 
(Puate 454.) 
Crenomyces Kidam in Cohn’s Beitr. z. Biol. iii. (1880), p. 274. 
Ascophore brightly coloured, the peridium formed of loosely 
interwoven, septate, torulose hyphw, and round the circumference 
a series of projecting delicate spiral filaments; asci small, Reb n 
8-spored, borne on internal hyphe; spores minute; conidia 
branched Sop e 
C. ATUS idan, Ascophore forming a small, round, 
iecliowish ball 3-14 mm. in diameter, the hyphe of the peridium 
omposed of short indented torulose cells; asci of a deep yellow 
colour in the mass, crowded in the centre, about 4-5 » in diameter; 
spores cylindrical, yellow in the a about 2 xX 1; conidia 
oval, colourless, 1-2-celled, 5-6 » x 2-3. Re dating hyphe also 
fo rmed, of comb- like structure, the individual cells growing out 
into a wegrites tooth on one side of the filaments. (Pl. 454, 
figs. 1 and 2.) 
On oe feathers. On decaying beech and other leaves in 
Hampsh 
This Scie was found by Hidam in Silesia in 1880. There is 
no further record of its occurrence anywhere until it was collected 
in the spring of this year by the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre at Alresford, 
shire. 
“Whea Hidam first saw the fungus, the hyphe were in the 
resting stage of the comb-like structure. He kept it moist on the 
decaying sata where it had first appeared, and the next stage to 
be prod as the white fluffy mass of conidia-bearing hyphe. 
Later appeeele the yellow ascophores. He was able to watch the 
development of these, and he describes the formation of the 
antheridial branch, a club-shaped cell round which the ascogenous 
hypha, which arose from the base or from a neighbouring filament, 
wound itself in a close spiral, and finally branched into the fertile 
The peridium was formed subsequently by 
The form of the esti 
Vausa HETERACANTHA Sacc. Myc. Venet. Spec. ~. 129, t. xiv. 
figs. 8. 35_42, Stroma "bros effused, seated in the cortex and at 
aa covered by the peridets, L 
red or occurring in grow aeteer | y-1 mm. in diameter, 
ly, 
ar ea asci broadly clavate, long-stalked, 18-25 p (p. sp.) X 
- Journat or Borany.—Vou. 41. [Aveust, 1903.] s 
