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NEW BRITISH FUNGI, 
Sphaeria (Diaporthe) oxthoceras. Fr. El. ii., 97. 
Perithecia immersed, seriate, globose, persistent black ; ostiola 
straight, somewhat conical : sporidia oblong-fusiform, uniseptate, 
nucleate, hyaline. — Fckl. Sym, Myc. p. 209. Cooke^ Fungi Britt. 
ii., No. 500. 
On stems of Senecio. Forden. 
Sporidia -012 X ’004 m.m. 
Sphaexia (Gnomonia) graphis. FcM. F. Rhen. No. 2016. 
Perithecia scattered, globose, olivaceous, with a long erect 
straight ostiolum ; asci elliptic, stipitate ; sporidia cylindrical, 
curved, at length septate, hyaline. — Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 122. 
On leaves of Rubus fruticosus. Nesscliffe. Oct. 1876. 
The perithecia are much smaller than in Sphmria gnomon^ and 
but just visible under a lens. Only two or three leaves were found 
during the Cryptogamic Excursion of the Caradoc Club. 
Rhytisma empetri. W. 
Ambient, black, shining, wrinkled longitudinally ; asci cylin- 
drical.—^. ^ Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1630. 
On Empet/um nigrum. Rannoch. N. Wales, 1866. 
Capnodium citri. B. Besm. 
Stratum thin; peridia elongated, mostly acuminate, conical or 
lageniform ; mycelium consisting of beautifully reticulate branched 
moniliform threads ; sporidia minute, oblong, sometimes attached 
end to end. 
On leaves of oranges. Exeter (E. Parfitt). 
FUNGI ON WHALE BONES. 
Fungi upon Bones. — The occurrence of fungi upon animal 
matter is always interesting to the mycologist, whether the matrix 
be living or dead. About a year ago a young whale was stranded 
near Lynn, and in due course the bones passed into the possession 
of a manure company. They have been exposed all the time to 
the weather, and during the spring and summer were covered 
abundantly by an orange Fusarium., as well as by certain moulds. 
The skull has been sawn in two, and from a crack in it sprang, 
during the autumn, a cluster of Agarics, very near, if not identical 
with, A. bullaceus, Fr., the main points of difference being 
the ceespitose habit, and the margin of the pilei becoming striate 
or even corrugated^ as the plants dried. A few days ago, in the 
very centre of the cranium a cluster of A ga?'icus osti^eatus, Jacq^.j 
made its appearance, apparently luxuriantly, upon a thin stratum 
of dry cerebral matter that lined the interior of the cavity. 
Charles B. Plowright. 
