No. 97. 
September, 1892. 
dr^iltp. 
^ A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
FUNGI AND MYCETOZOA. 
New Zealand Fungi, by M. C. Cooke. 
Rhizopogon violaceus, Clce. Sf Mass. 
Peridium deformed, spherico-depressed, smoky-brown, covered 
with a clear violet bloom, 2-4 c.m. diameter, coriaceous, inside 
becoming olive ; gleba lacunose, tramal plates whitish ; spores 
elliptical, hyaline or with a yellow tinge, smooth, 6-7 x 3-4 yu.. 
In the ground, at length on the surface. N. Zealand. (Kirk, 382.) 
There is no base, no indication of rooting fibrils, no dehiscence, 
and no capillitium ; otherwise it has some suggestion of Sclero- 
derma. 
Chromosporium pallescens, Clce. $ Mass. 
Tufts at first more or less elliptical, then becoming confluent 
and forming irregular patches of a brownish-orange colour, 
eventually becoming pale ; conidia numerous, globose, tinged with 
yellow, 4-5 /x diam. 
Among mosses. Chatham Islands. (Kirk, 383.) 
Camarosporium Solandri, Cooke. 
Perithecia gregarious, often caaspitose, erumpent, black, sub- 
globose ; spores elliptical, obtuse, 3-septate, the two interstitial 
cells brown, one or both longitudinally divided, the terminal cells 
colourless, 20-25 x 8 /x. 
On twigs of Fagus Solandri . N. Zealand. (Kirk, 381.) 
NOTES ON EXOTIC FUNGI IN THE ROYAL 
HERBARIUM, KEW. 
By George Massee. 
Montagnites Elliotti, Mass. 
Pileus elliptical, then campanulate, at- length expanded and 
almost flat, disc depressed, very smooth, whitish ; margin of the 
volva attached to the apex of the stem irregularly torn ; gills free, 
crowded, thin, dry, becoming black ; spores elliptical, blackish- 
brown, 12 x 7 m; stem solid, rather woody, equally thickened 
upwards, sulcate above, fibrillose below, pallid, sheathed at the 
base by the large, lax volva. 
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