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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
Helotium Laburni. B. ^ Br. Ann. KH., No. 1624. 
Shortly stipitate ; cups externally villose, furfuraceous, pallid ; 
margin indexed ; disc ochraceoiis, bright coloured ; sporidia fusi- 
form, quadri nucleate. 
On decorticated branches of laburnum, or beneath the cuticle, 
which it seems to throw off. 
Sporidia -0009 in. 
Ascobolus (Ascophanus) ochraceus. Bond. 
Minute, pallid ochraceous, or ochraceous ; disc minutely papil- 
late ; asci somewhat fusiform ; sporidia ovate, oblong, smooth, 
hyaline ; paraphyses simple, septate, simple or furcate, slightly 
thickened above, often curved. 
On old cow dung. Shrewsbury. 
Cups about 1 m.m. broad. Mr. Phillips concurs with me in con- 
sidering this to be the species described by Crouan and Boudier. 
Sporidia '016 X '009 m.m. 
We have also found two other species which require further in- 
vestigation and consideration. 
Stictis lecanora. Schnt. Kze. var. pyri, B. d; Br. Ann.B.H. sul?. 
1624, t. xi., f. 7. 
Disc quite black. 
On bark of pear trees. Shrewsbury. 
Sporidia •0004--0005 in. 
Ascomyces Alni. B. Br. Ann. N.R. No. 1628. 
Deforming the inflorescence ; sporidia numerous in each ascus, 
small. 
On female catkins of alder. 
Sporidia •0002--0003 in. 
Ascomyces pxuni. Fckl. Fungi Nass. p. 29. 
Sporidia ovate or irregular ; asci subclavate, obtuse, distorting 
the fruit on which it occurs. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1629. 
On plum and sloe. 
Nectria Keithii. B. 4 Br. Ann. N.H. No. 1625. 
Perithecia minute, pallid, crowded, furfuraceous ; ostiolum dis- 
tinct ; sporidia fusiform, inarticulate ; conidiophores punctiform, 
confluent, greyish, flesh colour. 
On cabbage stalks. Forres. 
Sporidia •0002-’00025 in long ; conidia *0002 in. 
Nectria caulina. Cooke. 
Nestling beneath the epidernns ; perithecia single, brown, sub- 
membranaceous, gregarious, small ; asci subclavate ; sporidia 16, 
cylindrical, curved, obtuse, pale brown. — Cooke, Fungi Britt, ii., 
No. 479. 
On stems and twigs of Buxus. Forden (J. E. Vize). 
Very different from any form of Nectria Rousselliana. Sporidia 
sixteen in each ascus, ‘018 X ‘006 m.m. 
Sphaeria (Byssisedae) Keitii. B. d: Br. Ann. N.H. No. 1626, t. xi,/. 8. 
Perithecia cagspitose, seated upon black branching flocci ; apex 
