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HYPOCREA RICCIOIDES (BOLT.) BERK. \SPH/ERIA 

 RICCIOIDES BOLTON] IN WESTMORLAND. 



C. CROSSLAXD, F.L.5. 



This very rare and peculiar Pyrenomycete was gathered on 

 the 1 2th May last by Messrs. J. A. Wheldon and A. Wilson. 

 They noticed it gro^^^ng plentifully on apparently health}^ 

 willows along the sides of ditches bordering the road between 

 Dungeon Ghyll and Elter Water. Great Langdale, Westmorland. 

 They kindly forwarded specimens to the writer, who was very 



Hypocrea riccioides Bolt, i Berk. 



Fig. 1. — Stroma, natural size ; surface view, the dots representing perithecia 



are perhaps fewer, and wider apart, than in nature. 

 Fig. 2. — Vertical section of portion of same. 

 Fig. 3. — Portion of section magnified. 

 Fig. 4. — Ascus, spores, and paraphyse magnified 320. 



pleased to see them ; more so perhaps because this rare fungus 

 was first found near Halifax. It was discovered by Bolton 

 * on decaying branches of sallow and hazle in February 1790,' 

 and figured and described on the last plate (182) of his ' History 

 of Fungusses gromng about Halifax.' There are specimens in 

 the Kew Herbarium from Glamis, Perthshire, collected by the 



1908 October i. 



