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* Patellaria lignyota. Fr. Phillips El. Brit. No. 146 . 
Our specimens agree perfectly with one received from our friend, 
C. E. Broome, Esq., under this name ; it also agrees with speci- 
mens of Arthonia melaspermella, Nyl., in the herbarian of the 
Rev. W. A. Leighton, and is described in his Lichen Flora as a 
British lichen. We submitted specimens to Dr. Nylander, who 
pronounced it to be his A. melaspermella. On dead wood. 
Shrewsbury. 
74. Ascomyces Tosquinetii. West, in Bulletin de VAcad. Roy. de 
I' Belgique, 2me. ser. t. xl., 1861 . No. Q,p. 16 . No. 72 , Jig. 4 ./. g. 
Taplirina alnitorqua. Tal. Exoascus alni. De. By. 
On the living leaves of Alnus glutinosa. This fungus appears in 
two forms, either as a white bloom in patches upon the leaves, or 
in a more diffused manner, producing great distortion of the leaf, 
almost after the manner of Exohasidium. Messrs. Berkeley and 
Broome record one of these states upon the female catkins. 
For an extended account of the life history of this plant see a 
paper by Dr. P. Magnus, in “ Hedwigia.” No. 9. 1874. 
75 . Stictis Berkeleyana. Bu. R. ^ Lev. Flora Alger, t. 89 , /. 8 . 
Fckl. Sgnih. My col., p. 251 . 
On the dead stems of Epilohium hirsutum. North Wootton. 
Jan., 1877. 
* Claviceps purpurea. Tul. 
Abundant specimens were grown from ergot on Phragmites 
communism June, 1876. 
76 . Mectria lecanodes. Ces. in Rahh. Herd. Mycol. ii., No. 525 . 
On the thallus of Peltigera canina. Near Kings Lynn. Oct., 
1876. 
77 . Gibbera flacca. {Wallr.) Flor. Cryp. Germ, ii., p. 
On Solanum dulcamara, bursting through the bark in clusters, 
which are composed of very minute perithecia. 
78 . Anthostoma cubiculare. Nke. Pyren. Germ., p. 119 . 
Sphceria cubicularis, Fr. S.M. ii., p. 477. Sordaria FleischaJcii, 
Awd. 
Upon rotten wood. Kings Lynn. 
79 . IVEelogramma rubricosum. Tul. 
Sphaeria rubricosum, Fr. El. ii., p. 63. 
On beech. Brandon. Nov., 1876. On alder. Ringstead. 
1876. 
Prof. Niessl (“Hedwigia,” 1874, p. 130) regards the plant 
published in “ Sphseriacei Britannici ” ii.. No. 22, as possibly being 
a form of this species; but on account of it growing on naked 
wood, and being destitute of any red stroma, he suggests the pro- 
visional name of AlyrmcEcium cinctum, Niessl. Mr. F. Currey, to 
whom specimens were sent some years ago, considered it his Valsa 
cincta. It may here be remarked that Prof. Niessl considers (in 
the above paper) that S. B. ii., No. 18 iDothidea tetraspora, B. & 
Br.) to be a new species of the genus Fuckelia, which he describes 
under the name of Fuckelia Plowrighiii, Niessl. 
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