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width of pileus, and which becomes reflexed ; spores blackish- 
purple, subglobose, minutely apiculate, 6-7 /a. 
On manure heap. Wellhead, Halifax. 
Readily distinguished from C. Hendersonii by the ovate pileus, 
distinct basal volva, with free, persistent, collar-like margin, and 
smaller subglobose spores. 
Hydnum fuligineo-album, Schmidt. Myc. Reft ., i., p. 88. 
Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, white, and like that 
of the stem, becoming reddish-brown when cut ; expanded, wavy, 
or often excentric, rather silky, scaly at the disc, whitish, scales 
darker, with faint tinge of pink near the margin ; stem about 1^ 
in. long, up to J in. thick, solid, whitish, with rudimentary squa- 
mules ; spines crowded, subulate or compressed, about J in. long, 
white, then pale reddish-yellow ; spores globose, 5-6 p diam. 
On the ground. Halifax. (C. Crossland.) 
A fine species, distinguished by the white flesh becoming reddish 
when broken. Taste pleasant, smell none. Agreeing exactly with 
the description given by Schmidt, but differing widely from the 
figure by Fries, Icon. t. 3, upper Figs. 
Phoma pinastrella, Sacc. Syll . , No. 698. 
Perithecia gregarious, but always simple and never confluent, 
semiglobose or rather conoid, prominent or semi-immersed, quite 
black, girt by regularly ruptured cuticle ; sporules ellipsoid, mostly 
straight, a little attenuated to each end, but rounded, for the most 
part biguttulate, hyaline, 4-5x2-2| p, very numerous. 
On fir leaves. Carlisle. 
Geopyxis majalis, Fries Nova Symb., 120. 
Wax coloured, urceolate campanulate, regular, externally almost 
naked, of the same colour; stem short, white ; margin rather pro- 
minent, flocculosely crenate ; disc orange, asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
narrowly elliptical, smooth, hyaline, 15x6 /a. — Sacc. Syll. No. 247. 
On the ground. Scotland. 
Cups 6-8 m.m. broad. 
Lachnea (Scutellinia) erinacea, Schwein. Syn. Car., 1194. 
Gregarious, orbicular, depressed, ochraceous-white, externally 
clad with long brown setulose hairs. Asci cylindrical, octosporous ; 
sporidia elliptical, nucleate, smooth, 18-20 x 10-11 /a; paraphyses 
clavate at the tips. — Sacc. Syll. No. 741. 
On rotten wood. Carlisle. 
Cups 2-4 m.m. broad. Hairs brown, almost continuous ; 250 p 
long. 
Neottiella ovilla, Feck 28 Rep., p. 66. 
Minute, at the beginning nearly closed, subglobose, then cup- 
shaped, open, rather firm, minutely whitish tomentose, disc rubes- 
cent, asci cylindrical, sporidia fusoid, 1-2 guttulate, 30-40 /a long. 
On the ground. Cups 3-5 m.m. diam. 
