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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
On Poa and Typha. Rev. J. Keith, Scotland. 
Cups 1 mm. broad ; sporidia •025-*03 X ‘OOS-'OOS mm. The 
genus Belonidium was established bj de Kotaris for species of 
Peziza with the exterior of the cup formed of elongated cells, re- 
sembling adnate hairs, as at fig. 11, and fruit resembling Helotium^ 
so that the genus is intermediate between Peziza and Helotium. 
(PI. 97, fig. 8-11.) 
BOUDIERA. Cflole. 
Immarginata, orbiculare, discoidea, plana, vel convexa, carnosa ; 
hymenio papillato ; ascis clavatis vel clavato-cylindraceis, exclusis ; 
sporidiis globosis ; parapbysibus distinctis. 
Im marginate, orbicular, discoid, plane or convex, fleshy ; disc 
papillate; asci clavate or clavato-cylindrical, ejected; sporidia 
globose; paraphyses distinct. 'Ihis genus belongs to the Ascoho- 
Joidei, and is allied to Ascobolus, but the receptacles are discoid or 
patellate, (not cup-shaped,) convex, and fleshy. The sporidia are 
globose, which is not the case in any genuine species of Ascobolus. 
Boudiera areolata. C. Pli. 
Atro-brunnea. Cupulis orbicularibus convexis ; ascis clavato- 
cylindraceis ; sporidiis globosis, areolatis ; parapbysibus robustis, 
clavatis, septalis, supra purpureo- brunn eis. 
On damp ground. K. Wales (W. P.). 
Cups dark brown, orbicular, convex, 2-21 mm. ; asci clavato- 
cylindrical ; sporidia globose, deeply areolate like the sporidia of 
some Truffles, ’Go mm. diam. ; paraphyses robust, clavate, septate, 
coloured above. (PI. 97, fig. 12-15.) 
Boudiera microscopica, C., is the Ascobolus microscopicus of 
Crouan, not yet discovered in Britain. 
Ventuiria Fotentillae. Coolce Fungi Britt. No. 587. 
Stigmatea Potentillce, Fries, Cooke “ Handbk.,” p. 929. 
On living leaves of Potentillce. 
This is clearly a species of Venturia. (PI. 97, fig. 16.) 
CLAVIS HYMENOMYCETUM. 
The necessity which collectors have long felt for a synopsis of 
all the species of European llymenomycetes, in a portable form 
for the pocket, will probably be supplied during the coming year, 
as such a work is now in progress, with the brief distinctive features 
in Latin. The “ Clavis ” is intended to include not only all the 
species in the second edition of the Fpicrisis,” but also all those 
since published by Kalchbrenner, Quelet, and other European 
mycologists. It will be published simultaneously in London, Paris, 
Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and New Yoik, somewhere about midsummer 
next. The London publishers will be Messrs. Hardwicke and 
Bogue, 192, Piccadilly, to whom any communications may be 
addressed. 
