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Fusarium obtusispoium, Cke. cf- Hark. 
Pallidum, erumpens, convexum, margine tenui, saepe confluens. 
Sporis cylindraceis, curvulis, utrinque obtusis, indistincte trisep- 
tatis, hyalinis (-03--035 x '004--005 mm.). 
On twigs of Acacia. California (No. 2273). 
Tzichosporium fuscescens, Cke, Hark. 
Late effusum, subcompactum, fuscescens ; hyphis ramosis, re- 
pentibus, densissime intertextis, septatis, fuscis. Sporis acrogenis, 
inspersisve, ovalibus vel subellipsoideis, levibus, fuscis (*008-*01 x 
•077 mm.). 
On decorticated pine (No. 2491). 
Zygodesmus mazginatus, Cke. ^ Hark. 
Effusus, pallidus, margine lato albo sterili circumdatus. Hypliis 
repentibus, septatis, intertextis, hyalinis. Sporis globosis, nume- 
rosis, pallidis, spinulosis (‘OOG-'OOS mm.). 
On pine wood. California (No. 2360). 
Threads thicker than the diameter of the spores, or of equal 
thickness. 
Tetzachia quadzigemina, Berk ^ Curt. 
This is the Sporidesmium tessarthriim B. & C. and the Spegazzinia 
ornata Sacc, found originally in Cuba, and Venezuela. 
Flora of British Fungi- (Hymenomycetes). — The Rev. John 
Stevenson has now announced this work, in two vols., post 8vo., 
with illustrations by Mr. Worthington Smith. The price to sub- 
scribers is fixed at 10s. 6d. each volume, which will be increased 
on publication. The issue will depend on a sufficient number of 
subscribers being received by an early date, in which case the first 
volume will be published without delay. Address, either to Rev. 
John Stevenson, Glamis, N.B., or to Messrs. W. Blackwood and 
Sons, Edinburgh. 
WooLHOPE Fungus Foray, 1884. — The Club day is fixed for 
Thursday, October 16th. Visitors will assemble for the week on 
Monday, October 13th. The Essex Field Club Foray— to extend 
over two days — will be held on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3rd and 
4th. 
A Real Yankee Puff-Ball. — In the “ American Naturalist” 
for May, 1884, Professor C. E. Bessey announces that a specimen 
of Lycoperdon giganteum has been found in Herkimer County, 
N.Y., which was of an oval outline, and measured five Jeet four 
inches in its longest diameter and four feet six inches in its smallest 
diameter, whilst its height was but nine and a half inches. Pro- 
fessor Call says of it, that it was “ much larger than the largest 
wash-tub we had at home.” 
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