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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
MILOWIA. Massee . 
Pulvinate, monoecious. Mycelium sparsely septate, branched, 
flexuous, giving origin to numerous lateral fertile three-celled 
branches. Pollinodium clavate, springing from the basal cell of 
the fertile branch. Carpogonium formed from the terminal cell of 
the fertile branch, broadly obovate, producing from near its apex 
from two to five cylindrical octosporous asci. 
Milowia nivea, Massee, in Roy. Micr. Journ. 1884, p. 841, pi. xii. 
Tufts globose, minute, white ; sporidia colourless, cylindrical, 
truncate ; conidia globose, moniliform, occupying the same position 
as the carpogonium when the latter is not developed. 
Forming snow-white spots on decaying leaves of Blysmus com- 
pressus. 
(The question which suggests itself in connection with this 
fungus is, as to the nature of the naked clavate bodies termed asci, 
viz., whether they are merely more completely developed hyphaj 
with dissilient joints, as in Sporochisma i or asci, as in Ascomyces, 
— Ed.) 
Rhinotrichum decipiens, Coolie. 
Broadly effused, resembling some species of Corticium , at first of 
a pale rose-pink colour, growing pallid when old, somewhat velvety, 
with a thin radiating margin, often separable from the matrix. 
Sterile threads creeping, branched, septate, densely interwoven; 
fertile branches rather short, more closely septate, erect, clavate, 
the ultimate one or two joints covered with short acute spicules. 
Spores ovate, attached by the small extremity to the spicules, 
•022--025 x -014--015 mm. 
Overrunning bark and mosses. Carlisle, Feb., 1884. (Dr. 
Carlyle .) 
It becomes quite firm and like a Corticium when dry. Easily 
mistaken for Peniophora velutina. 
Feziza (Tarzetta) petaloidea, Che. Phil. 
Stem rooting, attenuated downwards, cups lobate, expanded ? and 
flattened, externally verrucose, fuliginous-brown, disc yellowish- 
brown, rugose (^-J inch diam.). Asci cylindrical. Sporidia eight, 
elliptical (’01 5- X *008 mm.), rough; paraphyses linear. Peziza 
cupularis , var. in Herb. Beric. 
On the ground. East Bergholt, Feb., 1852. 
A most distinct species, probably an inch in diameter when liv- 
ing. The above description taken from the dried specimens. 
Patellaria subtectum, Cke # Phil. 
Singly or in clusters, appearing first as black conical points 
emerging through the layers of bark, in which condition no fructi- 
fication is seen ; at length the conical points expand into lens- 
shaped, or Lecidea-like discs, which are immarginate and black, 
about 1 mm. broad or less, substance soft and fragile. Asci broadly 
clavate, narrowed into a slender stem. Sporidia 8, oblongo-ellip- 
tical, with 3-4 nuclei, at length 1-3 septate (*02-*024 x •005-*006 
