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Threads longer and rather more robust than in H. ohovatum ; 
septa just visible in the upper part of the thread, but concealed 
below; spores elliptical, three-celled, the lowest cell small, the 
other two nearly equal, rounded above. 
Helminthospoirium tingens, Coohe. 
Lignicolous. Thinly effused, black, tinging the matrix deeply of 
a purplish rose colour ; threads long, rigid, straight, simple, 
septate, with the cells abbreviated so as to be little longer than 
broad, brown ; spores mostly terminal, elliptical-clavate, 3 (rarely 
4) septate, paler than the threads ; epispore thin (’03 x ‘01 mm.). 
Chi rotten wood. Staunton. 
Whether the stain of the wood is really due to the mould is 
difficult to determine, or whether, if so, it is a permanent charac- 
ter. The other features are, nevertheless, quite distinct enough 
to warrant its being recognised as a good species. 
Cercospoira moricola. Cite, in Greillea xii., p, 30. 
On mulberry leaves. Clevedon. 
SOME EXOTIC FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
We will commence this small and rather miscellaneous contribu- 
tion by reference to a Folyporusy of which we have not succeeded 
in finding a published diagnosis. We have therefore copied the 
description which accompanies the specimens in the Berkeley 
Herbarium. 
Folypoxus (Mexisxna) anax, Berh. 
Polyporus very much and intricately branched, the branches 
terminating in numerous frondose lobed pilei of various forms and 
sizes, imbricating and confluent, of a dusky grey, or lead colour, 
and somewhat downy or minutely fibrous above. The pores are 
white, varying in size and form, but mostly large and angular. 
The substance is coriaceous, brittle when dry. The smell is like 
that of mice, when it is in a dry state, but when moist almost in- 
odorous. 
Found at the base of a dead stump, branching out from a thick 
single stem at the base, until at the top it formed a large head of 
branches and lobed pilei quite 16 inches in diameter. Ohio, U.S. 
Herb. Berk., No. 2458. 
Spathulaxia velutipes, Cke. ^ Barlow. 
Gregaria. Clavala spathulata, compressa, laevis, aurea. Margine 
subundulato. Stipite asquali, cavo, badio-velutino. Ascis clavatis, 
stipitatis. Sporidiis filiformibus, curvulis, flexuosis, hyalinis (*06 
mm. long). Paraphysibus filiformibus. 
In swampy ground, Shelburne, and Lake Willoughby, Vermont, 
U.S.A. 
The stem is velvety throughout its length and bay-brown, by 
which it may readily be distinguished from S, flavida. 
