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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Exs. Karsten Fung. Fenn. No. 931. 
On culms of Juncus conglomeratus. Autumn. 
Orkney (?) ! Professor James W. H. Trail. 
Fhacidium terrestre, Niessl. 
Gregarious ; receptacle turbinate or fig-shaped ; excipulum 
between leathery and membranaceous, chestnut-brown, at first 
closed, at length opening with a laciniate margin ; hynemium 
undulated, sulphur yellow ; asci clavate, attenuated into a stem, 
broadly rounded at the summit ; sporidia 8, uniseriate, oblong, 
unequal, simple, continuous, or sometimes divided by one or two 
guttulae, hyaline, 11-13 x 4-5 p; paraphyses the length of asci, 
bifurcate at the apices. 
Podophacidium terrestre , Niessl, Forhandl. Natur. Band. x. 
(1871), p. 213, t. v.,f. 50. 
On damp ground, amongst decayed leaves, etc. 
Receptacle 1-1^ lines broad, and % to 1 line high ; the asci 
124-136 X 8-9 p. The sporidia are very rarely guttulate, and 
occasionally a sporidium is seen similar to the left hand figure of 
Niessl, in which there appears near the poles a contraction of the 
protoplasm, as though it were constricted. The paraphyses are 
slenderly filiform, often branched near the summit, where they are 
slightly thickened and curved downwards. There appears no 
necessity for creating a new genus for this. 
Near Carlisle 1 Dr. Carlyle. 
SOME EXOTIC FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Spheerella (Laestadia) palustris, Fr. in Duly Bot. Gall. 710. 
Hypophylla, sparsa. Peritheciis innatis, epidermide tectis, punc- 
tiformibus, nigris, nitidis, convexis, centro prominulo. Ascis 
cylindraceis sporidiis suballantoideis, hyalinis, 10 X 2 p. Desm. 
Exs. No. 365. 
On leaves of Caltha palustris. France. 
Lizonia Sphagni, Coolce. 
Perithecia scattered, subglobose, black, rather prominent, with a 
mamillate ostiolum, seated on the decayed leaves, and soon becoming 
subsuperficial. Asci clavate, sporidia cylindrical, slightly carved at 
one or both ends, uniseptate (then probably triseptate), hyaline, 
colourless, 40-50 x 8 p. 
On dead Sphagnum. Maine, U.S. 
1695* Valsa (eutypella) clavulata, CooJce. 
Stromate valseo, e basi orbiculari, conico, obtuso, cortice innato, 
peritheciis 12-20 congestis ; ostiolis elongatis, clavulatis, 4-5 
sulcato-rugosis, exsertis, atris, opacis. Ascis clavatis (30 X 10 p), 
