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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
•005 mm.) ; paraphyses filiform. — Cooke Myco ., jig. 174. B. $ 
Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1985. 
On the ground. Hampshire. 
“ The tint of the green is so dark that it is nearly black, so 
that house painters might call it ‘ invisible green.’ L. atrovirens , 
P., occurred at Coed Coch in September, 1881 ; but it is clearly 
merely a state of Geoglossum viride, which accompanied it. The 
specimens agreed in every respect with the figure in Myc. Eur., t. 
9, f. 1 to 3.”— B. $ Br. 
Stigmatea Nicholsoni, Che. 
On both surfaces. Perithecia in circles, black, erumpent, shining, 
convex, at length collapsed, smooth ; asci clavate ; sporidia ellipti- 
cal, rounded at the ends, uniseptate, constricted, pale brown 
(*018 X *008 mm.) 
On leaves of Portugal Laurel. Newcastle, Co. Tipperary 
(Mr. Geo. Nicholson.) 
Accompanied by pear-shaped stylospores, (about -016 X '01 
mm.), pale brown with two septa, the middle cell again divided 
longitudinally, or with 4-5 cells formed by irregular division, ap- 
parently the stylospores are produced in separate perithecia. 
Sphaeria leprosa, Pers. in Fr. Sys. Myc. II. 365. 
Immersed, perithecia few, nestling in the bark; necks straight, 
united in a white stroma ; disk minute, erumpent ; ostiola small. 
— B. fy Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1986. 
On lime bark. Penzance. 
“ Spores *0008 inch narrow.” — B. 4" Br. 
Sphaeria aggregata, Lasch. in Kl. Herb. Myc. n.541. FcM. Rhen., 977. 
According to Fuckel this is a Cenangium of which he had seen 
no asci, only stylospores. See Symb. p. 271. — B. ^ Br. Ann. 
JVat. Hist., No. 1987. 
On Euphrasia officinalis. Penzance. 
Didymium effusum. Link. 
Sporangia sessile, or without regular form, snow-white, or now 
and then yellowish white ; capillitium of very fine fibres with 
branches combined into a thickly set net, colourless, provided with 
numerous small thickenings. Spores dull violet, almost smooth 
(•01--011 mm. diam., rarely only *008 mm.). — B. Br. Ann. Nat. 
Hist., No. 1988. Smith in Gard. Chron., July 15, 1882, with jigs. 
11 to 13. 
On fronds of Hart’s tongue fern, Tregony, Cornwall. 
COMING FUNGUS FORAYS. 
Epping Fungus Foray. — The Essex Field Club has fixed 
Saturday, the 23rd September, for the Foray. The meeting place 
to be the Lough ton Station, the first train from London after two 
o’clock p.m. When the party has assembled, to proceed towards 
Highbeech. 
