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M. spinosum Mass. and Salm., l.c., p. 64, figs. 63-66. 
On dead branches of Fraxinus. 
Ombrophila decolorans (Berk. and Curt.). Grevillea [V. (1876), 
p. 6. Redescribed by Massee. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXXI., 
pp. 466-7, pl. 18, figs. 23-4. 
On decaying stump, Yorkshire. Crossland, Nat., Jan. 1902, 
puee: 
Mallisia amenticola (Sacc.). Rehm, Rabh. Krypt. Flo. Disc., p. 540. 
Apothecia gregarious, sessile, globose, then somewhat flat, the 
disc whitish yellow, brownish outside, becoming darker yellow when 
dry 2-1 mm., soft and waxy; asci clavate-cylindrical, round above, 
45-55 X 4-5m, 8-spored ; spores cylindrical obtuse, straight or slightly 
bent, one-celled 6-8 x 2-2°5 colourless, bi-seriate ; paraphyses thread- 
like; cells of the cup large and parenchymatous, yellowish, almost 
colourless towards the edge. 
On female catkins of Anus glutinosa. Yorkshire. Crossland. 
Nat., Jan. 1902, p. 29. 
Sclerotinia Fuckeliana Fuck. Sym. Myc., p. 330. 
Apothecia mostly solitary, growing from a finely warted sclerotium, 
2-4 mm. long by 1-2°5mm. broad; disc at first globose and closed, then 
cup-shaped, becoming flat, with a delicate edge; the stalk cylindrical, 
straight or bent 2-10 mm. long by 1 mm. thick, smooth, brownish; 
asci cylindrical, rounded above, 100-120 x 9-12, 8-spored ; spores 
elongate-elliptical, blunt, one-celled, guttulate, colourless, g-11 x 5-6, 
paraphyses thread-like, septate, 5 broad, colourless; tissue _ pro- 
senchymatous, faintly brown. 
On leaves of vine—causing disease. 
Grown from sclerotia that were causing a disease on the stems of 
gooseberry bushes. Hereford. 
Anixiopsis stercoraria Hans. Bot. Zeit. LV. (1897), p. 131, Vaf. 11, 
fig. 8. 
On owl castings, Kew. Mass. and Salm., l.c., p. 67, figs. 27-28. 
Arachnomyces nitidus Mass. and Salm. (g. et sp. nov.), kes, pe 68, 
figs. 127-131. 
On decaying vegetation, Kew; Yorkshire, C. Crossland. 
On dung of rat, Cheshire. 
A. sulphureus Mass. and Salm., l.c., p. 68, figs. 55-60. 
On an old nest of a wild-bee. Kew. 
