NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 138 
Perithecia scattered, immersed beneath the cuticle, afterwards 
emerging, globular, somewha depressed, at length collapsing, 
black, smooth, shining, prolonged into a subulate or cylindrica 
beak, a little longer than the perithecium, subpellucid at apex. 
_ clavato-fusiform, 25-32 x 5-6 yw, 8-spored; sporidia dis- 
x 2 
8. 
he lower part of stems of Hpilobium hirsutum, standing in 
water, Harborne Ws.), Nov. The original specimens of — 
had 4-spored asci, but in other respects istily resembled min 
5. Gibberella ¢ yanogena Sace. Syll. ee: ll. 555 (18 a 
Spharia eyanogena Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 352 (1848).—Botryo- 
spheria ¢ cyanogena *Nicsal. Peo p. 47 t (1878 
lapsing at the conical obtuse apex and anaes: plicate and 
errucose, dirty amethyst-blue; asci clavate, obtuse and rounded 
end (the nucleus ve ery pale violet), 3- bra septa Peer 
25-32 /; mycelium branched, effused, cru ou yet 
lowish ; conidia ne tess solitary, sometimes shitaeed ku 
iform, apiculate, 1-8 (more rarely 5) a dpi: 
rotting stems of cabbage, Ireland (H. W. Lett) 
a Nectriella chrysites Sace. Mich. i. 278 (1878); ; Syl. ii. 450 
(1883), —Nectria chrysites West. 
On twigs and small branches of ash, Sonnuee (Wk.), April. 
It is not without a little uncertainty that I r my specimens to 
this Species, since the asci were inrpertacthy. pate fc But the 
habitat, the form of the perithecia, the rich golden colour of the 
tissues, and a few unseptate free spores found in each perithecium 
€rumpent clusters of 4-16, were globose or more often pyriform, 
golden, then br cg deeply umbilicate at the apex, about 250 u 
om ; asci clavate, young. 
: trema angustilabrum Sace. Mich. i. 888; Fung. It. 238 
: aera) Sri ii, 687 (1883).— Topeens ejnairan B. & Br. ; 
dbk. 50. 
p. P = 
On nettle. -stem, Middleton (Wk.), April. See «Science Gossip, 
scan uP. Aas figs. 81-4, where it is shown that Lophiostoma sex- 
ooke (ibid.) is identical with this species. Lophiotrema 
serop Indaria (Peck) appears to be closely similar, but smaller. 
gel: Niptera ee begs Myce. Ven. Spec. p. a t. xvi. f. 3-6 
(1878) ; ; Fung. Ven. Nov. iv. 33 (status spermogonicus 
dead eg Sateen Coldfield (Wk.), Sept. Ress aes 3 
Of the large forms of Niptera cinerea Fckl., from which, accor peptic 
W. Phillips, it is not really disunet. I am not quite : 
*Pinion. The © denply-obet ae og that ee = 7 
