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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
Acmosporium tricephalum, Phillips in Gard. Chron. Mar. 8, 1884, 
fig. 61. 
Small oval white tufts in. long formed of a layer of loosely 
interwoven colourless hyphse, from which arise simple erect septate 
stems, once or twice branched in the upper part, the extremities of 
each branch again divided into three short branchlets, which are 
slightly enlarged upwards, and each terminated by a globose head 
on which are seated several globose spores. Total height 25 mm.; 
width of stem -01 mm.; diameter of globose head *014 mm.; spores 
*005 mm. 
On fallen leaves of Cryptomeria Japonica. 
BEITISH FRESH-WATER ALG^. 
Chroolepus umbxinum (Kvtz.) has recently been obtained by 
Mr. Varenne in Essex. He says, “ It seems frequent on the bark 
of oak and elm trees, in woods, and in the more open country 
about Kelvedon.” 
lyiicxothamnion vexator (Cooke) has been found by Mr. F. Bates 
in the neighbourhood of Leicester, also 
Spirogyra velata (Cleve) in excellent fruit. 
Symphyosiphon Hoffmanni (Ag.) was detected by us a few days 
since in one of the stoves of the Royal Botanic Society, in Regent’s 
Park. M. C. C. 
NOTES ON HYPOCREACEiE. 
(Continued from p. 83.) 
Claviceps Wilsoni, Cooke in Grevillea xii., p. 77. Barya aiirantiaca. 
Plow. Sf IT'iZs., Gard. Chron. Feb. 9, 1884. 
This has nothing in common with the genus Barya, to which it 
has been referred, that being only a ca^spitose Acrospermum. 
Cordyceps isarioides, Curt, in Cat. Plants. N. Carolina, p. 138. 
Cordyceps gryllotalpae, Curt, in Cat. Plants. N. Carolina, p. 138. 
Of both these nothing but the names appear to have been 
published. 
Hypocrea dacrymycella, Cooke ^ Plow. 
Stromatibus gregariis (3-4 mm.), superficialibus pulvinatis, 
humectis tremelloideis, subrufis, demum siccis collabescentibus, ex 
ostiolis obscurioribus punctiformibus punctatis. Ascis cylindraceis. 
Sporidiorum articulis ecqualibus, 16, subglobosis leniter granulatis, 
olivaceis ( 00G-*008X'006 mm.). 
On Scotch fir. Brandon, England (C. B. Plouf right). 
Hypocrea flavo-virens, Berk, in Herh. J\o. 8305. 
Pulvinata, orbicularis, demum centro depresso (1-3 mm.) flavo- 
virescens, ostiolis punctiformibus, atro-viridis. Ascis cylindraceis. 
Sporidiorum articulis subglobosis truncatis, olivaceis. 
On bark. Nilgherries, India. 
