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ends, tapering somewhat to the base, hyahne, delicately but 

 clearly uniseptate, 14-16 x 4-5 /x, occasionally slightly curved, 

 rarely constricted at the septum. 



On culms of Dactylis, Selly Oak (Ws.), December. This 

 seems to be so much like Saccardo's species that, although that 

 was on Cynodon Dactylon, it is hardly possible to consider it even 

 a variety. Under the microscope the texture of the pycnidium 

 was subtranslucent-olive and parenchymatous. On the lower 

 part of the same culm it passed into a leptostromatoid fungus, 

 probably a Scirrhia {? rimosa, forma Dactylidis), in which the 

 interior was filled with a dense mass of roundish white cells (a 

 sclerotium), without any traces of asci. 



199. Stagonospora socia m. Pycnidiis atris, ostiolo brevi, 

 ab iis PhyllachorcB junci, qui bus immiscebantur, non distingu- 

 endis ; subinde autem discretis, stromati non immersis, et tunc 

 minoribus. Sporulis oblongo-cylindricis, nonnunquam basi an- 

 gustioribus, obtusis, hyalinis, 5-guttulatis (guttulis solito majori- 

 bus), dein 4-septatis, 30-35 /x x 10 /a. 



In culmis exsiccatis Junci conglomerati, Frankley (Ws.), Sept., 

 socia Phyllachora junci. 



200. Stagonospora graminella Sacc. Syll. Fung. iii. 454. 

 Pycnidia gregarious, globose, minute, black, innate, then 



piercing the epidermis by a minute round pore ; texture parenchy- 

 matous, subtranslucent-fuliginous. Sporules cylindrical, ends 

 obtuse, 20-21 x 3| /x, 4-6 guttulate, hyaline. 



On leaves of grasses in a lawn, Handsworth (St.), September. 



CRYPTO STICTELL A, gen.nov. 



Pycnidia erumpentia, globosa. Sporulae 2-pluriseptatae, utrin- 

 que l-aristatse, hyalinas. 



Est Stagonospora, sed sporulis aristatis, vel Cryptostictis 

 sporulis hyalinis praedita. 



201. Cryptostictella bractearum 7n. Pycnidiis erumpenti- 

 superficialibus, minutissimis (60-100 /x diam.), dense gregariis, 

 semiglobosis v. difformibus, atris, nitidis, subinde ruguloso-sul- 

 catis, junioribus parenchymaticis, dein atris, carbonaceis, apice 

 poro pertusis ; sporulis paucis, cylindraceis, utrinque leviter 

 attenuatis v. obtusis, e latere curvulis, hyalinis, 17-18 x 2|-3 /x, 

 tenuiter 3-5-septatis, non constrictis, sub utroque apice oblique 

 1-aristatis (aristis 12-14 x 0-75 /x), basidiis brevibus suffultis. 

 (Tab. 516, fig. 11.) 



In pagina utraque bractearum TilicB etiropcece, Studley Castle, 

 Dec. 



99. Ehabdospora pleosporoides Sacc. Syll. Fung. iii. 588. 



This species, which I have previously recorded (Journ. Bot. 

 1886, p. 137) on Bumex from the Fame Islands, has since occurred 

 at Earlswood (Wk.) on stems of Heracleum. 



202. DiscuLA macrosperma (Peck), Sacc. Syll. Fung. iii. 675. 

 Var. FRAXiNi w. 



Pycnidiis imperfectis, sparsis, primo epidermide pustulata 



