NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI 13 



146. Sporotrichum terricolum m, Hyphis repentibus, 

 candidis, intricatis, vage ramosis, tenerrimis, septatis, 6-7 /^ cr. ; 

 conidiis sphaericis, levibus, subhyalinis, pallide ochraceis, nume- 

 rosissimis, 6-6f /x diam. (Tab. 515, fig. 5.) 



Ad terram argillaceam, Eandan Woods (Ws.), Sept. Form- 

 ing large clusters of spores, \ inch thick, surrounded by the white 

 mycelium ; the mass of spores had the colour called by house- 

 painters "stone-colour." 



147. BoTEYTis isABELLiNA Preuss, Sacc. Syll. Fung. iv. 121. 

 Tufts widely effused, of a pleasant isabelline colour; hyphae 



thick, repeatedly branched, faintly verrucose at apex. Conidia 

 heaped together, globose, verruculose, 5-6 /x, very numerous, of 

 the same colour. 



On bark of Pine, Boston, Lines., Sir Henry Haiuley, March. 

 The colour is a pallid pinkish buff, something like that called 

 "crushed strawberry," but faded and dirty. B. carnea Schum. 

 (Syll. p. 119) seems to be very similar, except that in that species 

 the conidia are described as " solitariis v. bi-ternatis" ; but surely 

 such a difference would be merely dependent upon age ? 



148. Botrytis violacea m. Mycelio effuso, hypochnoideo, 

 amoene violaceo, stratum tenue sistente ; hyphis hinc illinc tumi- 

 dulis, 6-8 ft diam., laxe ramosis intertextisque ; fertilibus erectis, 

 ramosissimis, apice tumidis clavatisque ; conidiis numerosis, 

 sparsis, ovato-ellipticis, saturate violaceis, 6-7 X 3^ /jl, basi sub- 

 apiculatis, lateralibus v. terminalibus. (Tab. 515, fig. 6.) 



Plagas magnas, plures unc. longas, ambitu concolore, effor- 

 mans, in ligno putrido humoque, Studley Castle, Nov. It had 

 much the appearance of a Gorticium, but the spores were not borne 

 on basidia, and therefore it cannot be Hyjjochnus violeus Qu61., 

 apart from the colour of the spores. When fresh it had the exact 

 colour of the flowers of Viola odorata, passing when old into a 

 pallid purplish brown. In many ways it agreed with B. Wall- 

 rotJiii Sacc, in fact the description of that might be applied 

 word for word, merely changing the colours. It also resembles 

 B. coccotricha Sacc. Fung. Ital. t. 694 (see also Journ. Bot. 1884, 

 p. 197, t. 246, f. 5), but differs widely in the size of the conidia. 



149. OvuLARiA PEiMULANA Karst. Sacc. Syll. Fung. iv. 143. 

 Spots large, roundish, yellow above, whitish below ; hyphae 



in hypophyllous tufts, short, simple, continuous, shghtly denticu- 

 late, hyaline, 60-90 x 7-8 /x ; conidia broadly elliptical or oblong, 

 continuous, hyaline, 13-18 x 6-7 /x. (Tab. 515, fig. 7.) 



On leaves of Primrose and Cowslip, Studley and Spernal, July, 

 August. 



I cannot but suspect that 0. inter stitialis (B. & Br.) is merely 

 a peculiar, perhaps young, state of this where the spots are con- 

 fined to the interstices of the veins. The conidia are, it will be 

 seen, of the same size and shape ; and I have occasionally seen 

 one attached obliquely at the apex of a hypha. Moreover, even if 

 it seem heterodox, I must confess that I think Bamularia p'imuloi 

 Thum. is nothing but the most advanced stage of the same 



