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NEW BRITISH FUNOI. 
Mycogone alba, Letell Champ, t. 667,/. 2. 
This mould, which spreads over the whole surface of cultivated 
mushrooms, is a true Mycogone , the conidia of which closely re- 
semble those of M. rosea. There is no rosy tint, and it may 
possibly be referred to Letellier’s species, of which there is no 
description, and the figure is very unsatisfactory. Doubtless an 
imperfect (conidial) condition of some undescribed Hypomyces. 
On mushrooms. Wynyard, Stockton-on-Tees. (H. E.Gribble.) 
Gliocladium agaricinum, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Causing the pileus of mushrooms to crack into large frustular 
scales. Tufts hemispherical, sometimes confluent, pallid, growing 
white, at first gelatinous. Hyphas creeping, branched, fertile 
branches erect, ultimate branchlets verticillate, quaternate, capitulum 
of conidia subglobose, white. Conidia at first glutinous, sub- 
globose, hyaline, 5-6 p diam. 
On cultivated mushrooms. Leicester. 
Bispora pusilla, Sacc. Syll. vn., No. 1633. 
On chips. Kew. 
Tubercularia minor, Link, forma Syringae, C. Sf M. 
Minute, erumpent, horn-coloured, then flesh colour or reddish, 
shining, gelatinous when moist, stroma readily falling away, when 
mature, leaving cup-like pits ; conidia oblong, straight, rounded at 
the ends, 10x2 p. Sporophores simple. 
On twigs of lilac. Kew, 
Pionnotes Biasolettianum, Corda Sc. n .,/. 14. 
Polymorphous or effused, between fleshy and tremelloid, thick, 
orange. Stroma fleshy, whitish, floccose ; hyphse septate, simple 
or sparingly branched, fasciculate, stratum of conidia rather thick, 
gelatinous, orange-red, viscid ; conidia fusiform, acuminate at each 
end, slightly curved, granular within, then obsoletely 2-5 septate, 
60-70 X 4-5 p. 
On wild rose stems. Reading. (Dr. Carlyle .) 
BRAITHWAITE’S BRITISH MOSS FLORA. 
We are very glad to see the first part of the second volume 
of this invaluable work. Part XI. contains the first part of 
Grimmiacese, and is fully up to all that have preceded it in excel- 
lence. The plates, which have now reached to PI. LIIL, are 
excellent. If we feel any regret — and we cannot help feeling it in 
common with bryologists — it is that the publication does not pro- 
ceed more rapidly. On this point we have been assured that no 
effort has been wanting to secure greater expedition, and that these 
efforts will not be relaxed. We, who are growing old, sometimes 
fear that, in the natural course of things, we shall scarcely live to 
see the end ; let us hope that we shall be disappointed. 
