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Lloyd Williams on material in the laboratory of the Pharmaceu- 
tical Society. Journ. Bot., Jan., 1897. | 
Thyrsidium Hedericolum Dur. and Mont. 
Pustules gregarious, globose-depressed, black, covered by the 
epidermis, the contents flowing out in a granular looking 
tremelloid mass; spores minute, globose, 3u in diameter, 
olivaceous, densely aggregated into subspherical heads; borne on - 
forked or branched filiform sporophores. : 

On Hedera Helix. : 
Var. Carpini. On branches of Carpinus Betulus. West Kit 
bride, July, 1897. Mr. D. A. Boyd, Journ. Bot., May, 1898. 
Clavaria Kewensis Mass. Journ. Bot., April, 1896. 
Base thick, dividing almost at once into numerous, subequal 
divergent branches 4-7 cm. long; branches uniform in thickness 
throughout, often compressed, imperfectly hollow, dividing near 
the apex into 2-4 short branchlets, axils rounded, tips obtuse 
or divided into 2-4 short finger-like processes; base and main— 
branches rusty-brown, becoming ochraceous upwards, pruinose 
with the elliptical, colourless spores, which measure 5-6 x 3°5-4p. 
Fragrant. 
On rotten wood. Rock Garden, Kew Gardens, Oct., 1896. 
Forming dense tufts 5-6 in. across. A very distinct species, 
characterized by the rusty colour, and fragrant, spicy smell, 
which resembles that of Lentinus cochleatus. 
Coprinus stellaris Quél. 
Pileus ovoid, then campanulate, striate, snow-white, then 
greyish, crowned with minute pellucid vesicles 1-2 mm. across. Gills 
adnate, spores elliptical, about 8u long, stem 1-2 cm. long, fili- 
form, hyaline, velvety with slender white hairs. Swarraton, Hants. 
Underneath side of loose clods of cow dung, in_ pastures. 
Swarraton, Rev. W. L. W. Eyre. 
The hairs average about 45x 10u. The French specimens 
usually found in caves. 
Panus rudis Fr. 
Caespitose. Pileus 10 cm. across, fleshy, coriaceous, then corky, 
thin, unequal, excentric or dimidiate, ochraceous fawn or reddish, 

