78 WOOLHOPE CLUB, 1879. 
the apex ; gills adnate, ventricose, rather distant, bay-brown. — Fr. 
Hy?n., 393. 
In pine woods. Dinmore. 
Cortinarius (Hydrocybe) fasciatus. Fr. 
Pileus membranaceous, conical, then expanded, smooth, brownish 
(pale brick-red, silky), umbo rather thick, acute, turning blackish ; 
stem rather hollow, breaking in a fibrous manner, undulating, 
smooth, pallid brown ; gills adnate, thin, rather distant, cinnamon. 
— Fr. Hym., 399; Grevillea t. 114,/. 5. 
In pine woods. Dinmore. 
( Concluded in our next.) 
ASCI IN A POLYPORUS. 
The Rev. M. J. Berkeley explained at the Conversazione of the 
Woolhope Club, at Hereford, the circumstances under which he 
found the pores of a Folyporus fringed at the margin, with asci 
containing spores. The specimens had been forwarded also to Mr. 
C. E. Broome, and he confirmed the observation in all essential 
particulars. The asci were perfectly naked, and there is not the 
slightest reason for the assumption that they bore any relationship 
to Hypomyces , or even that they were parasitic in any other 
manner. There was every appearance of their being a develop- 
ment, of an abnormal character, of the Folyporus itself. The 
explanation was offered in the hope of inducing further research in 
the same direction, so as to obtain some clue to the cause of a 
phenomenon so unusual and unexpected. See also Gardener s 
Chronicle , for Nov. 16th, 1879. 
BRITISH HEPATKLE. 
In order to prevent disappointment, we are requested to intimate 
that the small work, “ British Hepaticas,” by M. C. Cooke, has 
been advanced in price, and is eightpence — not fourpence, as 
formerly. It is published by David Bogue, No. 3, St. Martin’s 
Place, Charing Cross. 
CRYPTOGfAMIC LITERATURE. 
Fries, T. M. Lichens collected in English Polar Expedition of 
1875-6, in “ Journ. Linn. Soc.,” No. 102. 
Crombie, J. M. Lichens of Australia, in “ Herb. Rob. Brown.,” 
in “ Journ. Linn. Soc.,” No. 102. 
