48 Notices of British Funyi. 
25. S. sanguined, var. cicatricum, Berk. Brit. Fung. Fasc. 2, 
ined. A marked variety with very much of the habit 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. angelicce, 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 Caulicolae than Seriatae. 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 
