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is comparatively harmless. A similar fungus appears on the 
young shoots, leaves and fruits of the vine, causing extensive 
damage. Another, Gl. nervisequium, attacks the leaves of the 
Plane; the mycelium passes down the veins into the petiole 
and results there also in the fall of the leaf, but in a slightly 
different way, as no pustules appear on the leaf stalk. 
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SEPTORIA FRAGARIAE. 
This fungus, one of the Sphaeropsideae, also in the group of 
“Fungi imperfecti, is recorded on the leaves of Fragaria and 
other allied plants. It occurs on brown spots, the perithecia are 
very minute and open by a wide pore. A cultivated strawberry 
was brought to me as one of a crop that had been very much 
damaged and rendered unfit for market. | had no leaves to 
examine, but the bracts were covered with the perithecia of the 
fungus. The strawberry itself was ripe and well formed, but 
nere and there all over it were withered spots. The seeds were 
very hard and the tissue all round dried and juiceless. Peri- 
thecia of Septoria were found there also and were undoubtedly 
the cause of the injury to the fruit. There was a rich growth of 
mycelium in the cells beneath the damaged spots. The spores 
are elongate-cylindrical, 3-septate and colourless, and measure 
about 35 w X 4m. There is no size recorded in the published 
description. There is no record that I can find of the fungus 
having passed from the leaves to the fruit. The fruits came 
from a grower near Southampton, but I was unable to get sufh- 
cient material to carry out a more complete investigation. 
NOTES ON FUNGI RECENTLY COLLECTED. 
By A. Lorrain Smith. 
Gonytrichum caesium Nees. This somewhat rare fungus was 
collected in the Autumn on sticks in a Dumfriesshire wood. 
In several details it differs from the published and figured spect 
mens and yet is so near akin that it is evidently the same species. 
The brown filaments are intricately branched, tapering 4? 
colourless at the tips about 2°5 m in diameter; a few septa are 
faintly visible. The conidiophores are bottle-shaped up to 8 # 
in length by 3 p at the widest part, and they cluster round the 
nodes and at intervals along the branches. The swelling at the 
nodes is barely perceptible, or altogether absent. The globose 
