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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
Clavaria fuliginea, Pers. Myc. Eur. I., 166. 
Gregarious, cinereous, becoming rufescent (2-3 in. high, 2 in. 
broad), very much branched; stem thin, larger branches thick, 
compressed; lateral rather incomplete; branchlets somewhat 
fastigiate, short, acute. Spores globose (10 p ), with an apiculus, 
ochraceous. 
On the ground. Burnham Beeches. 
Helotium depar culum, Karst. Myc. Fenn. 150. Buck. Brist. Fung. 
XIII. 
Gregarious, at first sphasroid, then nearly plane, when dry 
hemispherical and concave, sessile, mealy-puberulous, pallid, or 
pallid yellow, when dry ochraceous or reddish yellow (‘03- # 04 m.m. 
broad). Asci cylindrically clavate, 4-spored (30-45x4-5 p) ; 
spores linear-fusoid, straight or slightly curved, simple or pseudo- 
septate (12-15xlJ ji), parapliyses few, slender. 
On dead stems of Spircea ulmaria. Ashton. 
Lachnella fragariastri, Phillips in litt. Buclc. Brist. Fun. xm. 
Gregarious ; stipitate, firm, cyathiform, faint purplish red, paler 
near the margin, clothed with short, hyaline, simple hairs, usually 
enlarged at the summit ; asci subclavate ; sporidia fusiform or 
oblong-fusiform (5x1-2 p) ; paraphyses acerose, rather stout, 
somewhat abruptly acuminate. 
On dead strawberry stems. Clevedon. 
Oligonema fuaxatum, Buck. Fungi Bristol p. xm. 
Sporangia scattered, globose, shining, bright chrome yellow, as 
well as capillitium and spores; elaters cylindrical, simple, or 
branched, slightly thickened at the obtuse ends, with a faint open 
spiral (3-4 p diam.) ; spores globose, minutely warted (11 x 12 p 
diam.). 
On rotten trunk. Near Bristol. 
Perichaena confusa, Massee in litt. Buck. Bristol Fungi xm. Ophio- 
theca umbrina, Ellis N. A. F. 726. Perichsena variabilis, JRostf. 
Physarum vermiculare, Schwein. 
Sporangia hemispherical and scattered, or asthalioid, and often 
forming an irregular network, pale umber or dingy ochraceous, 
dehiscing irregularly ; capillitium well developed, forming an 
irregular loose network, threads (2-4 thick) irregularly notched ; 
spores subglobose (13-14 p diam.), smooth ; mass of capillitium 
and spores dingy ochraceous, sometimes with a suggestion of 
olive. 
On wood. Yatton. 
Sporotrichum laeticolor, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Effused, when mature forming a loose, pulverulent, bright golden- 
yellow stratum ; hyphee procumbent, variously branched, septate, 
3-4 p diameter ; sports elliptic-fusiform, smooth, base truncate, 
very copious, produced singly on short lateral branchlets, 8 X 4 p. 
On bark. Halifax. ( Crossland .) 
