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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
oblique; hymenium smooth, discoloured-brown; flesh paler, sub- 
gelatinous ; basidia clavate, two to four spicules ; spores colourless, 
globose (-005-*006 mm.). 
On bark and wood of old elder trees. Shrewsbury. 
Cups *5 mm. across, *8 mm. high. 
238. Clavaria striata, Pers. Fries Hymen., p. 675. 
Caespitose, fistulose, subfuliginous ; clubs very long, flexuous, 
somewhat twisted, sparsely striate. Pers. Ic. et Descrip ., t. 3, f. 5. 
On the ground. General Cemetery, Shrewsbury. 
The clubs were decidedly striate. 
239. Tremella (Coryne) foliicola, Fckl. Symb. Myc., p. 402. Sa.cc. 
Fungi Ital., No. 1024. 
Scattered, crowded, subsessile, granular, globose, the upper part 
whitish, gelatinous, the lower brown, hard and dry ; when dry 
cupulate. Conidia on the apices of branched sterigmata, fusi- 
form curved, simple, hyaline 6x2 mk. 
On the lower surfaces of the leaves of Pubus fruticosus , with 
Phragmidium. 
Castle Rising. March, 1882. 
240. Nidularia confluens, Fries et Nordh. 
Rootless, peridium subglobose, smooth, villous ; sporangia 
orbicular, wrinkled, brown {Fries, et Nordh.). 
Nidularia confluens , Fries et Nordh. Symb. Gast., p. 3 ; Tulasne 
Ann. des. Sc. Nat., 1844, p. 96 ; Nidularia farcta ( confluens ) 
Fries. Sys. Myc. ii., p. 301. 
i On dead wood (pine). Forres. The Rev. Dr. Keith. 
About twice the size of a pea, adhering by a broad base to the 
wood, crowded and partly confluent, very irregular, villous, nearly 
even, persistent, pale fawn-colour ; splitting at the summit into 
a broadish lacerated opening ; internally glabrous, and filled with 
the orbicular lentiform sporangia, which are brown, wrinkled, and 
shining, and are immersed in a gelantinous matter which is very 
adhesive. The hymenium lines a very narrow opening in the 
sporangium ; the basidia are variable in shape, but mostly clavate, 
bearing one, two, or three spicules; the spores are subglobose 
(*005 mm.). A few cystidia occur at intervals flask-shaped. 
The spores of this species distinguish it at once from N. pisi- 
formis. 
241. Septoria stellariae, Rob. & Desm. Nat. xiv.. p. 22. Sacc. Mic. I., p. 182. 
Spermatia rod-shaped, curved, 50-60 X 1 mk., indistinctly 
septate, hyaline. 
On Stellaria. Forres. Rev. Dr. Keith, 1882. 
242. Ascochyta aceris, Fckl. Sym. p. 387. Cheilaria aceris, Lib. 
Didymosporium aceris, Mont. Rabh. Exsic., 1756. 
Spots brown, irregularly rounded. Perithecia minute, black, dis- 
crete. Spores oblong, very pale brownish, uniseptate, 8 to 10 x 
3-4 mk. 
On living leaves of Acer campestris. Rev. J. E. Vize. Oct., 
1884. 
