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Asterina (Asterella) Alsophilae, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Perithecia membranaceous, discoid, suborbicular, mostly confluent 
in oblong or irregular patches, pitchy-black, cellules radiating, 
mostly dentate at themagin. Asci pear-shaped, or shortly clavate, 
octosporous. Sporidia elliptical, uniseptate, unequal, the lower 
cell double the length of the upper, and a little attenuated, 9-10 X 
4-5 fx hyaline. 
On Alsophila rebeccce. N.E. Queensland. {Baron Muller.) 
Phacidium (Fabraea) xhytismoideum, Cke. $ Mass. 
Cups clustered together upon a kind of pseudo -stroma in the 
centre of the leaves, usually 6 to 8, minute, externally dark brown, 
disc pallid, cinereous, closing in drying, and wholly becoming 
pitchy brown, nearly black, and then resembling a Rhytisma. 
Asci clavate with numerous paraphyses. Sporidia cylindrical, 
obtuse at the ends, uniseptate, hyaline, 16-18 x 3-4 p. 
On living leaves of Cotula. Macedon. {Mrs. Martin.) 
WOOLHOPE CLUB TRANSACTIONS. 
The ninth volume of these Transactions has just been issued, in- 
cluding the years 1883-4-5, and although some of the papers seem 
now to be matters of ancient history, the volume is welcome, not 
least for the excellent photograph of the late Dr. H. G. Bull. The 
heavy cost of the publication of the “ Pomona ” caused the Trans- 
actions to be set aside from year to year, but now that the “ Here- 
fordshire Flora” is issued, it is to be hoped that the succeeding 
three years — 1886-7-8 — will soon make an appearance, and then 
the arrears will be fairly disposed of. Criticism of the papers in 
the present volume is out of the question, but it may be well to 
name the titles of the principal communications which come within 
the province of this journal. “ The Salmon Disease,” by H. C. 
Moore ; “ On some Species of Tricholoma not easily distinguished 
from each other,” by Canon Du Port ; “ On the colours of Fungi 
as indicated by the Latin words used by Fries,” by Canon Du Port ; 
“ Mr. Jensen and the Potato Disease,” “Wheat Mildew Legisla- 
tion,” and “ Hetersecismal Fungi,” by C. B. Plowright ; “ On 
Alkaloids, &c., extracted from Fungi,” by C. G. Stewart; “ The 
Chroolepus Iolithus,” by Edwin Lees ; “ Notes on the Edible 
Fungi of Italy,” by A. S. Bicknell ; “ On Fries’s Nomenclature of 
Colours,” by H. T. Wharton ; “ British species of Nidularia,” by 
W. Phillips ; “ Researches into the Oospores of some Fungi,” by 
J. E. Yize ; “Gigantic Fungi,” by M. C. Cooke ; “The Genus 
Pestalozzia,” by J. E. Yize; “ The Vegetable Caterpillar,” by Dr. 
Bull ; the whole concluding with a neat “ In Memoriam ” dedi- 
cated to the “father of the Woolhope Club.” We congratulate 
the present editor, Mr. H. Cecil Moore, on the energy with which 
he is pushing forward the publication of the back Transactions, and 
the care with which he supervises their production. 
