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Collected by Mr. Jenkin on damp earth at Newport, Jan., 1897. 
Piptocephalis cylindrospora Bainier. Ann. Sci. Nat., Series 6, Vol. XV., 
p-. 92. 
Conidiophores without rhizoids at the base, upright, delicate, 
several times forked, the branches becoming always shorter, at 
first white, later brownish and septate ; basal cell of the conidia 
globose, small, the upper half dotted with small projections on 
which are borne the conidial chains; conidia cylindrical, small 
2X4, colourless. Zygospores unknown. 
On a patch of earth and moss, along with Syncephalis. New- 
port, Mr. Jenkin. Journ, Bot. Jan., 1897, p. 7. 
Syncephals Cornu Van Tiegh and Le Mon. 
Conidiophores single, unbranched, colourless, continuous with 
overlapping rhizoids, the swollen top bent over ; basal cell of the 
conidia on the apex of the swollen tip, fusiform, bearing a chain 
of 4-6 conidia; conidia fusiform or elliptical 10-12 x 4-6, 
smooth, yellowish ; zygospores occurring singly, globose, with a 
thick, yellow-brown, warted epispore, surrounded by short 
_ swollen outgrowths from neighbouring hyphz ; stylospores 
globose echinulate 16m in diameter, on short stalks ; chlamydo- 
spores terminal and intercalary, globose, 21 in diameter, beset 
with blunt spines 6m in length. 
On a patch of earth and moss. Newport, Mr. Jenkin. Journ. 
Bot., Jan., 1897. 
Leptolegnia caudata De Bary, Bot. Zeit., 1888, p. 609. 
Forming dense tufts of slender, loose hyphz, which are un- 
branched and blunt at the ends, the superficial hyphz are 
branched and _ thicker. Zoosporangia elongate-cylindrical ; 
oogonia on short side branches at the base of the primary 
hyphez, usually somewhat ovate, smooth ; antheridia always one 
or two present, obliquely clavate, diclinous ; oospores single, 
filling the whole oogonium. 
Bandon, Co. Cork. Allan P, Swan, F.L.S. Irish Naturalist, 
Vol. VII., No. 2, p. 29, Feb., 1898. 
L. bandoniensis Swan, Irish Naturalist, Vol. vii., No. 2, p. 32. 
Filaments sinuous and not much branched, 124-14 in 
diameter. Sexual organs produced first, the oogonia globular, 
