NEW BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
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smooth above, shining, of a beautiful golden yellow ; asci. long, 
clavate, with a thin membrane ; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong-ovate, 
continuous, pellucid, slightly incurved, or not equilateral, 16-19 X 
6, 5 p, filled with granular plasma. Dermatea amoena , Tul. in 
Schlecht. Ephem. Bot. Berol. v. xi., p. 54. Pezicula amcena 
Tul. Carp. p. 184, t. xxi., Fig. 1-9. 
On dead oak branches. Autumn. Edgbaston Park. (W. B. 
Grove.) 
Cups not exceeding 1 a line, bursting forth in masses from the 
dry bark in autumn and winter. Spermatia naked, i.e., not inclosed 
in spermogonia, evanescent ; they are straight or curved and con- 
tinuous, 3J-4 rarely 6 p, long. 
Stylospores or conidia are produced in little unequal locula 
within the stroma escaping through narrow chinks. They are 
narrowly oblong, sometimes claviform, continuous, 192-225 p long, 
4-5 or sometimes 6-5 p, broad. 
There are four other species described as growing on different 
species of Quercus : D. quercina, Feld., and D. dryina , Cke., on the 
common oak ; D. stegioides , Speg., on Quercus sessilifiora, and V. 
tabacina on Q. alba. 
PHILLIPS’S BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
We are very pleased to announce the appearance of the long- 
promised volume of “ British Discomycetes,” by W. Phillips, 
although pressure of matter compels us to defer any further notice 
of it in the present number. This is less to be regretted, as we 
have already expressed a decided opinion elsewhere ( Nature , Feb. 
11th). The volume is everything which the student could wish, 
and the cheapest manual of fungi we have had. We can only 
recommend our readers to obtain it at once from Messrs. Kegan 
Paul & Co., and we can promise them it will be the best five 
shillings worth of mycology they ever purchased, with the extra 
merit of being good as well as cheap. 
BRITISH HYPHOMYCETES. 
{Continued from p. 65.) 
Ramularia lampsanae, Desm. Sacc. Syll. 1008. 
On L. communis. Forden. 
Ramularia pruinosa, Speg. Sacc. Syll. 1022. 
On Senecio Jacobcea. Forres, N.B. 
Ramularia senecionis, B. $ Br. Sacc. Syll. 1023. 
On Senecio vulgaris. 
Ramularia variabilis, FcJcl. Sacc. Syll. 1030. 
On Verbascum. 
