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Genus CXVIL, Cystotricha B. and B. Perithecia bursting 

 longitudinally. Sporophores branched, articulated, beset here 

 and there with oblong, one septate spores. 



Cystotricha striola B. and B., Spye Park, on rails. 



Genus CXVIIL, Neottisporia Desm. Perithecia concealed, with 

 a central perforation. Spores hyaline, furnished with a basal 

 appendage. 



Neottiosporia caricum Desm., Spye Park, on sedges. The spores 

 when seen in mass are bright red, but a variety occurs in Spye 

 Park with brown spores, not varying in other respects and there- 

 fore not safely to be considered distinct. 



Genus OXIX., Excipula Fr. Perithecia delicate, hispid, open 

 above excipuliform. Spores hyaline, attenuated, but not appen- 

 diculate. 



Genus CXX. Dinemasporium Lev. Perithecia open above (exci- 

 puliform), delicate, hispid. Spores hyaline, aristate at either 

 extremity. 



Dinemasporium graminum Lev., Rudlow, on dead grass. 



Genus CXXL, Myxormia B. and B. Perithecia composed of 

 flocci with free apices, open above. Spores concatenate, involved 

 in gelatine. 



Genus CXXII., Prosthemium Kze. Perithecia carbonaceous. 

 Spores fasciculate, fusiform, septate, attached to articulated threads. 

 Prosthemium betulinum Kze., Spye Park, on birch twigs. 



stellare Biess., ditto on alder sticks. 



Genus CXXIIL, Asteroma B.C. Perithecia flat, with no 

 orifice, determinate, attached to creeping threads. Spores simple 

 or one septate. 



Asteroma Posse D. C, common on wild rose stems. 



Genus CXXIY., Babenhorstia Fr. Conceptacle thin, subcarbo- 

 naceous, cup-shaped, dimidiate, above covered with the adnate cu- 

 ticle, celluloso-loculose within, ostiolum simple. Nucleus gelatinous. 



Genus CXXY., Cytispora Lr. Perithecia irregular, or compound 

 and radiating. Spores minute, mostly curved, oozing out from a 

 common apex in the form of globules or tendrils. 



Cytispora leucosperma P., common on sticks. 



