PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Caitttrritrge Ipbrlosogbitat ^oxtctn 
Notes on some of the Rarer or more Interesting Fungi collected 
during the past year. By Professor H. Marshall Ward, Sc.D., 
F.R.S. 
[ Read 4 February 1901.] 
The following notes are offered in the hope that, if they do 
not add much to our knowledge of the life history of any particular 
forms in detail, they are useful as records of species and facts — 
some of them new — which have come under my observation in 
the field and in the laboratory. They are by no means to be 
regarded as the results of attempts to find or to found new species, 
but simply as facts which have turned up during work — chips 
from a workshop, as it were, and the only merit that can be claimed 
for them is that they are fresh from the hands of the workers. 
Synchytrium Succisce, De By. 
During one of our botanical excursions in the Fens in the 
summer, I found the young leaf-rosettes of Scabiosa Succisa 
covered with the small glistening yellow pimples produced by De 
Bary’s Synchytrium Succisce. Examination revealed the presence 
of the zoosporangia in the hypertrophied cells, and uni-flagellate 
zoospores escaped in water. All the details so far observed con- 
firm the accuracy of Schroter’s figures and description 1 . The 
record of finding S. Succisce in Cambridgeshire is interesting, 
since it is I believe the first time this fungus has been discovered 
in England, and it has only once been found in Scotland, by Prof. 
Trail of Aberdeen 2 . 
1 Cohn’s Beitrage zur Biol. Bd. i. 1870. 
2 Scott. Nat. 1899, No. xxiv. p. 58. 
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