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with S. duplex, Fr. on Sparganium, &c and is remarkable for its 

 coloured jelly, and, if the character be constant, for the oily globules 

 contained in it. 



Tab. III. Fig. 7. a. Sphseria angelicze, nat. size ; b. two perithecia in situ mag- 

 nified ; c. contents of the perithecia highly magnified. 



29. Physarum metallicum, n. s. On a decorticated stick at Clifton 

 Notts, November 1835. 



Peridium subglobose, slightly depressed, a line or more in breadth, 

 sessile, (not adnate) quite smooth, very delicate, of a most beautiful 

 metallic appearance, bursting irregularly. Sporidia and flocci pink- 

 grey. This most beautiful plant connects Lycogala with Physarum, 

 in consequence of its bright coloured sporidia. The peridium is, how- 

 ever, perfectly simple. 



Tab. III. Fig. 8. a. Physarum metallicum, nat. size ; b. do. magnified ; c. flocci 

 and sporidia highly magnified. 



30. Isaria hrachiata, Schum. Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 279. — 

 On stems of hollyhock, Apethorpe, March 1836. 



31. Isaria citr'wa, Pers. Fr. 1. c. On the ground amongst leaves, 

 King's ClifFe, exactly answering in every point to the plate of Ditmar. 



32. Stilbum rigidum, Pers. Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 302. — 

 On rotten wood, King's ClifFe. 



33. Stilbum piliforme, Pers. Fr, Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 303. — 

 With the former. 



34. Stilbum anomalum, n. s. On the dead leafless shoot of some 

 hypnum on a loose stump, King's ClifFe. 



About half a line high, stem black, yellow above, generally smooth but 

 sometimes furnished with a few short flocci towards the base, head 

 subglobose, yellow, when placed in water falling away into subfusi- 

 form sporidia, which rest upon a flat disc-like expansion of the upper 

 part of the stem. Exceedingly like Stilbum xanthocephalum, but 

 agreeing with S. atractium in its subfusiform sporidia. Its consistence 

 is not, however, at all gelatinous. Is the character of fusiform spo- 

 ridia of sufficient importance to separate this species from S. xantho- 

 cephalum ? I have a plant with fusiform sporidia resembling in 

 every other respect Stilbum rigidum. 



Tab. III. Fig. 9. a. Plant, nat. size ; b. do magnified ; c. do. placed in water 

 highly magnified. 



35. Psilonia arundinis, Desm. Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 451. — 

 With Sphaeria arundinis and S. herpotricha. 



36. Stilbospora anguslala, Pers. Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 485. 

 — On Cornus sanguinea. Milton, Northamptonshire. 



37. Melanconium bicolor, Nees, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 488. 

 — On birch, King's ClifFe. 



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