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the label in W. Wilson’s writing, “ Tr. affinis, Cotterel Wood, 
Cheshire, 1828, W. W.” This is the true species named Tr. 
affinis, by Be Bary, and it is the first record of the species in 
Britain. It is a rather curious coincidence that Wilson should 
have given the same name to the plant as De Bary. In Currey’s 
Herbarium are two specimens without locality of the species, but 
under the name T. chrysosperma. Under the same name are 
specimens from “ Epping Forest (M. C. C.)” “ Hampstead (Cke. 
Fung. Exs. Brit., No. 614),” “ Brandon (C. B. P., in Cke. 
Fung. Exs. Brit., ed. sec., No. 527).” I have it from Raehills, 
near Moffat, and Queen’s Cottage, Kew. These are all the locali- 
ties in this country (I need not here refer to foreign habitats, which 
are numerous) from which I have seen specimens as yet. It is 
evidently widely-spread, and I doubt not is in many collections 
under a wrong name. 
Trichia chrysosperma , Lam. and Be C., is apparently a rarer 
species, though mentioned by Bostafinski as occurring all over 
Europe, and by Cooke (“ Myxom.,” 64), as at that time the only 
British species of the sessile aggregate, ones. Though I have 
collected for a number of years now, and in many localities, I have 
never been fortunate in finding it ; and the only authentic British 
locality I know as yet is Highgate (“ Cke. Fung. Exs. Brit. ed. 
sec.,” No. 524). There is in Kew Herbarium a specimen from 
“ Bawson-Turner’s Herb.,” under the name “ Tr. ovata, Pers., 
No. 71.” No locality is given. This is Trichia chrysospemna , 
Lam. and B. C. 
Trichia scabra , Btfki., has been more seldom confounded with 
Tr. chrysosperma , Lam. and B. C., but occasionally the mistake is 
made. This species I found, I believe, for. the first time in Britain, 
in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in October, 1878. Since 
then I have found it at Moffat and at Queen’s Cottage, Kew. From 
this last locality are specimens in Kew Herbarium gathered by 
Br. Cooke. 
Trichia bavarica , “ Thum., Myc. Univers.,” No. 1497, is no 
Trichia. It is an Oligonema. Typical Oligonema nitens has few 
elaters without any pattern on the walls. In the Be Theumen’s 
specimens 1 find that the walls have a tendency to become spirally 
thickened, and the elaters sometimes are slightly pointed, and it 
therefore shows an approach to Trichia. But still the elaters are 
very few, and the whole plant is essentially an Oligonema, but I 
am not convinced as to its being Olig. nitens. Be Thumen has 
sent out the same plant as Trichia chrysosperma , B. C., under No. 
399 Mycoth. Univ. 
Bayl ey Balfour . 
EXOTIC FUNGI. 
The Rev. J. E. Yize has just issued a small fasciculus of forty 
specimens of Micro-fungi from the Tropics. Several of these are 
now distributed for the first time. Particulars furnished by the 
preparer, Forden Vicarage, Welshpool. 
