48 Notices of British Fungi. 



25. S. sanguined, var. cicatricum, Berk. Brit. Fung. Fasc. 2, 

 ined. — A marked variety with very much of the hahit S. coccinea,but 

 without any stroma ; growing in patches upon the scars left by the 

 fallen leaves of dead twigs of Buxus sempervirens, and occasionally 

 in the axil before their leaf has fallen. It has occurred once only at 

 Apethorpe. Perithecia much more minute than in other states of 

 S. sanguinea, so as, except from their bright colour, to be scarce dis- 

 tinguishable to the naked eye, crowded, scarlet, subglobose, with a 

 distinct very obtuse short papilla, collapsed laterally when dry. Asci 

 linear, large for the size of the plant. There were no sporidia in my 

 specimens gathered towards the end of winter. 



Tab. III. Fig. 6. a. Plant nat. size ; b. do. magnified ; c. asci highly magni- 

 fied. 



26. S. herpotricha, Fr. Scler. Suec. n. 52. — King's Cliffe. On 

 reeds and grasses. 



27- S. arundinis, Fr. Syst. Myc vol. ii. p. 510.- — On reeds with 

 the foregoing. Sporidia exactly resembling those of some species in 

 the division Platystomse. 



28. S. angelicas, n. s. Berk. Brit. Fung. Fasc. 2 ined On dead 



mostly decorticated stems of Angelica sylvestris, King's Cliffe, March 

 1836." 



So minute as to be quite invisible to the naked eye, except the 

 stem on which it grows is wet, when extremely minute black dots, 

 the protruded tips of the ostiola, are perceived arranged in single 

 rows upon the ribs, but not connected in any way, so that the species 

 is better arranged amongst the Caulicolse than Seriatee. Perithecia 

 black, or brownish when viewed by transmitted light, immersed in the 

 woody part of the stem, their bases resting upon the commencement 

 of the pith, globose, furnished with a somewhat abrupt conical subob- 

 tuse neck, which protrudes just beyond the surface of the stem, and 

 is pierced with a minute round orifice. Contents of the perithecia 

 pink, oozing out, and forming a little halo round the ostiolum. Asci 

 minute, linear, containing a few subelliptic sporidia, accompanied by 

 variously sized globules of an oily matter. The perithecia are some- 

 times slightly rugged, and the neck wrinkled transversely by the 

 pressure of the woody fibres. The only species which, as far as I am 

 aware, can at all be compared with the present is S. duplex, Sow. 

 figured on the stem of some umbelliferous plant. Of this, as stated 

 in the English Flora, there is no specimen preserved in his Herba- 

 rium, but if the figure and description are to be regarded, the pre- 

 sent plant, which has not the ostiolum in the slightest degree dilated, 

 cannot be identical with it. At all events, it is not the same species 



