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320. Rasellinia malacotricha (Auersw.) Niessl. Perithecia gregarious, 
often densely crowded, conical or subglobose 200-300 pu in diameter, 
carbonaceous, surmounted by rigid, fasciculate, black hairs, ostiola 
smooth, shortly conical, shining. 4 Pee octosporous, cylindrical, 
stipitate, apex blunt 100 x 10 ps, sporidia untseriate, discoid or elliptical 
or semiorbicular 10-15 Xx 8-10, at first binucleate, yellowish, then 
black brown, paraphyses guttulate, scarcely exceeding the asci in 
length. 
Niessl Beitrage p. 36 t. v. f. 36. Saccardo Sylloge. I. p. 270, 
Fungi. Ital. t. 593. 
On dead fir wood, West Briggs Wood, Wormegay, King’s Lynn, 
15th December, 1898. 
321. Delitschia Marchalii Berb. and Vogl.  Perithecia gregarious, 
very minute, subglobose, asci cylindrical, rather acute, shortly attenuated 
below 75-85 x 11-13 x octosporous, paraphyses few and small, sporidia 
generally obliquely uniseriate, elliptical, obtuse, slightly constricted at 
the septa, at first hyaline then brown, surrounded by a narrow hyaline 
zone, not separating at the septum 10-12 x 5-6 [L. 
Saccardo Syll. Vol. IX. p. Th. 
On rabbit dung, Castle Rising Heath, 26th December, 1808. 
Remarkable for its very minute sporidia. 
322. Sporormia Marchaliana Mout. Perithecia gregarious, globose, 
"5 to 75 mm. in diameter, immersed or superficial, black ; ostiola papil- 
leform, thick and short; coriaceous though carbonaceous. Asci 
narrowly clavate, stipitate, Octosporous, sporiferous portion 170- 
200 X 20-25 mu paraphyses filiform, branched, sporidia I-3 seriate above, 
uniseriate below, cylindrico-fusiform, obtusely rounded at both ends, 
slightly curved, brown 11-1 3 septate, easily separating at the septa; the 
intermediate segments wider than long, surrounded by a layer of 
hyaline gelatin 60-75 x 8-10 [u. 
Mouton in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 1886 p- 155. Saccardo 
Sylloge. LX. p. 819g. 
On rabbit’s dung, Castle Rising Heath, 26th December, 1898. 
Plate 2, fig. 21 ascus f, 22 sporidia. 
323. Sporormia microspora Nov. sp. Perithecia small, semi-immersed, 
black, globose or subconical, scattered, smooth, about 200-250 u in 
diameter, ostiola inconspicuous. Asci cylindrical, octosporous, sessile, 
100-120 X 10-12.  Paraphyses few, filiform, branched hyaline. | 
Sporidia uniseriate, cylindrical, triseptate, pale then dark brown, con- 
