NOTES ON PLANTAGO 55 



dulately curved, branchlets acute curved, last fork producing two 

 very unequal branchlets, of which the longer is mostly S-shaped, 

 and the shorter strongly recurved. Conidia large, broadly elliptic, 

 rounded at both ends, 29 x 21 ja. 



On Plantago major, King's Norton (Ws.), July, August. The 

 oospores of this species are said to be unknown. 



212. Stilbum erytheocephalum (Ditm.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. iv. 

 567. 



Gregarious, rather crowded; stem short, white, pubescent, 

 obconical, crowned with a roundish, convex, rosy-orange head. 

 Conidia ovoid, 5-6 x 2i-3 /x, hyaline. (Tab. 516, fig. 10.) 



On dung of rabbits. Randan Woods, October. Stem about 

 5 mm. high, clothed with delicate white hairs, and broadening 

 gradually upwards. 



Explanation of Plates. 



Plate 515. — 1. Oospora hyalinula, x 250, and spores, x 500. 2. (Edo- 

 cephalum glomerulosum, a, x 50 ; b, head of spores ; c, two heads denuded of 

 spores and free spores, x 300. 3. Penicillium ovoideum, a, x 500 ; b, Coremium 

 form, x 250. 4. Sporotrichum chrysospermum, a, x 150 ; b, hypha and spores, 

 X 500. 5. S. terricolum, a, x 300; b, spores, x 500. 6. Botrytis violacea, 

 a, X 500; b, spores, x 1000. 7. Ovularia primulana, x 500. 8. Ramularia 

 primulfp,, spores, x 250. 9. Fusoma tenue, spores, x 600. 10. Tridentaria 

 setigera, x 600. 11. Ramularia taraxaci, x 500. 



Plate 516. — 1. Hormiscium callisporum, x 500. 2. a, Periconia pycno- 

 spora, X 250, and mature spores, x 500 ; &, P. Desmazieri, x 500. 3. Zygo- 

 desmusfulvus, x 250. 4. Helminthosporium inconspicuum, hypha, x 200, and 

 spore, X 500. 5. Scolecotrichum graminis, a, x 350 ; b, spores, x 500. 6. 

 Heterosporium gracile, spores, x 200. 7. Septosporiuvi elatius, a, x 80 ; 

 6, spores, x 250. 8. Alternaria tenuis, x 500. 9. Hymenula callorioides var. 

 corticis, a, fertile hypha, x 500; 6, sterile hypha of the sporodochium, x 250. 

 10. Stilbum erythrocephalum, x 80, and spores, x 500. 11. Cryptostictella 

 bractearum, spore, x 1000. 12. Pestalozzia conigena, a, spore, x 500 ; 

 6, X 750. 13. Discula macro^perma var. fraxini, spores, a, front view ; b, side 

 view, X 500. 



NOTES ON PLANTAGO. 

 By Ruth M. Cardew, F.L.S., and E. G. Baker, E.L.S. 



In working at the genus Plantago for Dr. Moss's Flora, the 

 following points of interest have come under notice, in which we 

 are not in entire agreement with other writers on the subject. 



Plantago Montana Hudson, Fl. Angl. p. 53 (1762). Dr. 

 A. Brand, in the third edition of Koch's Synopsis, Bandiii. p. 2193, 

 1903, has taken the name P. montana Huds. to be the same as 

 the P. montana of Lamarck, a plant of Switzerland, &c. Lamarck 

 (lUustr. i. 34 (1791) ) diagnoses his P. montana and quotes Plan- 

 tago alpina angustifolia Bauhin, Hist. iii. 506, as a synonym. 

 This is well figured by Sturm {Deutschlands Flora, Heft 88, tab. 

 1 (1843)), and is entirely different from the P. montana of Hud- 

 son — a plant which Hudson himself, in the second edition of the 

 Flora Anglica, reduced to a variety of P. maritima. See Journ. 

 Bot. 1907, 23, where the matter is fully discussed. 



