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orange yellow, minute, about 2 mill, wide, or slightly more, smooth ; 
asci fusoid, 70-80 x 10-11, octosporous ; paraphyses branched; 
sporidia fusiform, finely uniseptate, hyaline, 16-18 X 3 to 4 mill. 
Karst. Myc. Fenn. ii., p. 216. Sphseria N. Flora 1863, p. 322. 
On Angelica stems. Blaize Castle. Mr. C. Bucknall. 
292. Hypocrea argillacea, N. sp. 
Pulvinate, clay-coloured, rather thin, 1 to 3 mill, in diameter ; 
perithecia rather large, darker, prominent, pale brown ; ostiola 
minute, prominent; asci cylindrical, octosporous, 60-70 x 8; 
sporidia separating into 16, subglobose hyaline, generally rather 
longer than wide, 4-5 X 4. 
On soft rotten wood, apparently ash. Dersingham. 1 Nov., 1881. 
293. Hypocrea strobilina, N. sp. 
Discoid, stroma whitish, thin, 1 to 4 mill, across ; perithecia 
yellowish (honey-coloured), rather large; asci cylindrical; octo- 
sporous ; sporidia separating into two halves, each of which is 
subglobose; hyaline 5-6 X 5-5^ mill. 
On cones of spruce fir. Belmont. Hereford. Nov., 1878. 
Mr. James Renny. 
The hyaline sporidia are unusually large. 
294. Hypocrea splendens, N. sp. 
Subglobose, then expanded, golden-yellow, then reddish-orange, 
when old with a tinge of brown, fleshy, thick, hemispherical, then 
convex, bearing perithecia on the whole of the upper surface, 3 to 6 
mill, across; flesh yellowish-white, firm; perithecia minute, 
darker ; asci cylindrical, octosporous, 80-90 X 5-6 ; sporidia 
hyaline, separating into two parts, each of which is globose ; 
nucleate 4J-5 mill, in diameter. 
On laurel sticks. Leicestershire. Mr. T. Howse. Oct., 1881. 
295. Hypocrea viscidula, N. sp. 
Stroma at first globose, flattened above, then discoid, becoming 
cupulate, 5 to 10 mill, across ; margin thin, at length repand and 
re volute, at first straw-coloured, viscid, shining, flesh firm, whitish, 
becoming yellow ; disc dotted with dark green perithecia ; asci 
cylindrical, octosporous, 130-150 X 10-11 ; sporidia olivaceous 
green, soon separating into two parts, each of which is subglobose ; 
nucleate dark green, 6-8 mill, in diameter. 
On wood and bark of Pinus sylvestris. Brandon. 7th Nov., 
1881. 
A well marked species of large size, and characterised by the 
large size of its olivaceous sporidia. 
296. Lophiodermum caricinum ( Desm . fy Bob.), Duly Hyst. p. 47. 
Hysterium caricinum, Robin Herb. Desm. 14, Nat. 1847, p. 180. 
Sacc. Syll. p. 797. 
On pallid, withered spots, covered by the epidermis, scattered, 
oval, either slightly acute or obtuse at both ends, flat, black ; 
opaque, minutely tuberculate, at length opening with a pallid disc, 
lips thin ; asci clavate, 60-70, mk. bacillaro-filiform, 50 X 1 mk. 
On Carex arenaria. Mintlynn. 30 Aug., 1884. 
