360 Rev. M. J. Berkeley on British Fungi, 



73. King's Cliffe. Found by Mr. Churchill Babington and 

 myself, July 1840. Corda has admirably illustrated the ge- 

 nus Acrospermum, and shown its affinity to Sphceronema. His 

 analysis exactly accords with one sent by myself to Fries in 

 183 7. The contents of the perithecia, which consist of very 

 long linear bodies, are at length discharged at the apex. The 

 structure is not at all that of Sclerotium. Dr. Greville's figure 

 is correct enough as far as it goes, but he has not used glasses 

 of sufficient power to show the structure accurately. 



*165. Coryne turbinata, Schum., Corda 1c. Fasc. 2. t. 14. 

 My Tubercularia albida, Eng. Fl. vol. v. part 2. p. 354, ap- 

 pears to be this species, with the figure of which it accords. At 

 any rate I committed an error in referring the plant to the 

 genus Tubercularia. 



169. Sphceria argillacea, Fr., Obs. 1. t. 2. f. 5. On fallen 

 ash branches. King's Cliffe, Norths., Speke, Lane. There 

 can be no doubt that the plant originally intended by Persoon 

 in his 6 Icones ' is the present species. The perithecia are im- 

 mersed and almost free on the same stick, and even in the 

 same specimen. 



170. S. lutea, A. & S. t. 1. f. 1. On very decayed branches. 

 Clifton, Notts. A most interesting addition to the British 

 Flora. At present I have found only a few specimens. 



171. S. scabrosa, Dec, Fr. Syst. Myc. 2. p. 360. On the 

 trunk of a maple. Morehay Lawn in Rockingham Forest. 



172. S. quercina, Pers., Fr. Syst. Myc. 2. p. 362. King's 

 Cliffe. This species, for which various plants, especially S. 

 leiphcemia, are substituted in collections, has occurred once 

 only. 



173. S. dissepta, Fr. Syst. Myc. p. 392. On willow and 

 ash. King's Cliffe and at Coleorton, by Mr. Churchill Ba- 

 bington. 



174. S. cucurbitula, Tode. Fr. Syst. Myc. 2. p. 415. On 

 small dead shoots of ash. King's Cliffe. 



175. S.pulicaris, Fr. Syst. Myc. 2. p. 417. Common on 

 dead branches of fig, elder, &c. ; also on decayed cabbage 

 stalks. 



176. S. scoriadea, Fr., El. 2. p. 87. On birch twigs, Rose 

 Hall, Sutherlandshire. Mr. Churchill Babington. I believe 

 this production to be a Verrucaria. The contents of the pe- 

 rithecia are grumous, containing biseriate fusiform sporidia. I 

 have seen only a single British specimen, and the fructifica- 

 tion was not quite perfect enough to authorize me in removing 

 the species at once to Verrucaria. 



177. S. conferta, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. p. 435. On the 

 leaves of Vaccinium uliginosum, Glen Coe. Mr. Churchill Ba- 



