8 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
{Continued from Vol. xvm .,p. 74.) 
Pleospora junciginea, Cooke. 
Peritliecia scattered, erumpent, globose, black, papillate, at 
length cracking, and throwing off fragments of the cuticle. Asci 
cylindrical, octosporous. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, constricted 
at the middle, 5-septate, and muriform, amber yellow, 25-30 X 
10-12 p. 
On Juncus. North Wootton; also California (Harkness, No. 
1301). 
Pleospora sparganiae, Cke. 
Peritliecia scattered, immersed in the parenchyma, covered by 
the cuticle, rather small, globose, minutely papillate. Asci clavate. 
Sporidia biseriate, lanceolate, 3-4 septate, constricted, median cell 
longitudinally divided, yellowish-brown, 30x8 /a. 
On Sparganum. North Wootton 19. 
Phyllosticta Draconis, Berk. 8f Welw. Crypt. Lusit., Sacc. Syll. No. 
334. 
Spots on both surfaces, irregular, pallid, with a purple margin. 
Perithecia minute, pale, very thinly membranaceous, seated on the 
spots, but scarcely visible to the naked eye. Sporules minute, 
elliptical, continuous (7x3 /a), on very short basidia. 
On leaves of Draccena terminalis , and D. Cooperi in conserva- 
tories. 
Diplodia acerina, Cke. Sf Mass. {cum. Leptorrhaphis acerina Behm. 
Asco, No. 197). 
Peritheciis tectis, subsparsis, globuloso papillatis, atris, vix 
conspicuis. Sporulis constricto-didymis, brunneis, utrinque 
rotundatis, 17*9 /a. 
On Acer campestris bark. Germany ; Britain. 
Xsariopsis acanthac earum, Cooke. 
Hypophyllous. Forming minute, somewhat compact, semi- 
orbicular tufts, which are at first pale cinereous, becoming fuli- 
ginous, or nearly black. Hyphse slender, septate, flexuous, inter- 
woven, brown. Conidia fusiform, triseptate, hyaline ( , 02- , 022 x 
•005 mm.). 
On leaves of Eranthemum. Bristol (Dewar). On leaves of 
Dcedalacanthus nervosus. Exeter (E. Parfitt). 
Glceosporium mezereum, Cooke. 
Epiphytal. Pustules gregarious, small, brown, with a paler 
centre, sometimes confluent ; sporules elliptical, or nearly almond- 
shaped, with 1-2 or more guttules (15 x 6 /a), continuous, hyaline, 
at first with very short sporophores. 
On fading leaves of Daphne mezereum. Kew Gardens. 
