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p. 298), wliicli was distinguishable at once by its very marked 
characters:—“ Pileus piano-depressed, whitish at the margin; stem 
smooth, pale fulvous; gills at length decurrent.” A suspicion of a 
greenish colour pervaded the pileus and gills. 
In the same volume, p. 274, I have recorded the occurrence of 
CEcidiiini depaupej’ans, Vize, on cultivated Violas at Perry Barr, 
where I have been familiar with it for several years ; and have 
since met with it at Moseley and Sutton, under similar circum¬ 
stances. This year I have been fortunate enough to meet, at Sutton, 
with the associated Uredo and Puccinia, on the same plant; and, as 
they differ somewhat from Puccinia violarum, I shall describe them 
under the name of P. cegra. 
Puccinia .®gka, n. sp. 
I. CEcidium depauperans, Vize. Cups on all green parts of the 
plant, scattered, not collected on swollen patches, roundish or elliptic, 
with a torn, white, sometimes recurved margin ; spores roundish or 
oblong, angular, smooth, orange-yellow, 17-21 p. long, 14-16 p broad. 
II. Pustules numerous, amphigenous, on yellow spots, not 
small, scattered or collected in groups, roundish, flatly convex, veiled 
by the silvery shining persistent epidermis; spores elliptic or obovate, 
brown, delicately spiny, about 28-30 long. 
III. Pustules as in II. Teleuto-spores elliptic, oblong or roundish, 
very irregular, rounded or tapering at the base or apex, sometimes 
truncate, smooth, not constricted (more often widest at the septum), 
dark-brown, 22-30^ long. 18-24 u broad. August. 
The CEcidium appears at the latter end of May and continues till 
autumn. Its impoverishing effect is most marked the stems affected 
by it become flaccid, lanky, and yellow. The same plant which bears 
the Puccinia may still continue to produce the CEcidium ; in fact all 
three kinds of spores may be found upon the same leaf. The uredo 
pustules affect the leaves and stipules only, rendering them weak and 
yellow; the epidermis remains for a long time as a dome-shaped 
covering, and at last splits irregularly, or by a longitudinal fissure. 
This species must rest, perhaps, for its limitation mainly upon its 
biological characters. 
I have also found, in Crackley Wood, Kenilworth, another fungus, 
new to Britain—viz., Botrytis coccotricha, Sacc., the identification of 
which I owe to Mr. W. Phillips. It occurred on oak chips, and consists 
of a minute erect branching colourless stem, each branchlet terminating 
in a single large obovate clear-brown spore. 
Lecythea Baryi is recorded in the “ Handbook,” p. 532, on Brachy- 
podium. It is now known that this is the early stage of a Puccinia, 
which is called Puccinia Baryi. This (in both stages) I have recently 
found at California, Harborne, on Triticum repens. There is, I think, 
no published record of the occurrence of the Puccinia-spores of this 
rare species in Britain. Mr. C. B. Plowright informs me that it is 
also found on Lolium perenne. —W. B. Grove, BTA. 
