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New Fungi. 



A very remarkable fungus, owing- to the enormous develop- 

 ment of the beak, or mouth of the perithecium, through which 

 the spores escape into the air. The body of the beak consists 

 of hvphas arranged in a parallel manner, and these hyphce 

 become free from each other at the apex, spread apart, and 

 form a fimbriated or fringed termination to the beak. 



On dead fir leaves, Crimsworth Dean, Hebden Bridge. (Coll. 

 J. Needham, May 1897.) 



Calonectria vermispora Mass. et Crossl, (sp. nov.). 



Peritheciis gregariis vel sparsis, globoso-conoideis, carneo- 

 rufescentibus, cellulis rotundatis contextis, 0*5 mm. diam. ; pilis 

 hyalinis, brevibus, sparsis, vestitis ; ascis mox evanidis ; sporis 

 elongato-fusoideis vel vermiformis, leniter sigmoideis, hyalinis, 

 12-24 septatis, 60-100 x 8-10 /x. 



A very beautiful and distinct species, characterised by the 

 large, many septate, worm-like spores. The spores occasionally 

 break up into two equal parts. The scattered hairs on the 

 perithecium average 80-100 x 8 /x at the thickened base, apex 

 acute and rather opaque. 



On a decorticated fallen trunk, Hardcastle. (Coll. J. Need- 

 ham, November 1897.) 



Peziza recedens Boud. Bull./toc. Myc, France, 1898, p. 18, 

 tab. V. , fig. I. 



Ascophore subsessile, hemispherical then expanding, margi- 

 nate and regularly but minutely denticulate, dark- or brownish- 

 violet, paler and scurfy outside, disc becomings flat, centre often 

 inore or less umbilicate, 3-6 mm. diam. ; asci cylindrical, only 

 slightly narrowed at the base, apex deep blue with iodine, 

 8-spored, up to 300 x 18 ft ; spores, i-seriate, elliptical, h^^aline, 

 smooth, 19-23 X 10-12 /x; paraphyses stout, septate, apex pyriform 

 and purplish, and up to 11-12 // thick. 



Superficially somewhat resembling Huiiuiria liepatica, but 

 differing in man}- essential features. Up to the present only 

 observed in France, 



On the cortex side of a tub-garth, partly lying in a stagnant 

 pool, Halifax. (Coll. C. Crossland, No. 252, July 1892.) 

 Sphserospora citrina Mass. et Crossl. (sp. nov.). 



Sessilis palellato-concava, majuscula, 5-8 mm. diam. ; amoene 

 lutea, circa niargineni pilis brunneis erectis, e basi incrassata 

 cuspidalis, 150-180 x 1 2 • 15 /x ornata ; ascis cylindraceis, stipitatis, 

 300x35 /t, paraphysibus bacillari-capitatis, septatis, flavidis 

 obvallalis, octosporis ; sporis monostichis, globosis, verrucosis, 

 30 /X diam. , In alinis. 



Naturalist. 



