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C. intomorrkiza differs jfrom all in the &r longer articulations of 

 tbe sporidia. 



4, CoEDTCEPS Eavenelii, Berk. ^ Curtis; ftisca, stipite elongato flexuoso 



sulcato compresso glabriuflciilo, capitulo cylindrico altenuato longiore; 



peritheciis superficialibus. Curt no. 3080, Sav. no. 1272. (Plate l.figA,) 

 On larvfiB of Ancylonycka^ Dejean, or Wdzohrogus^ LatreiUe, buried one or 



two inches in the earth. Spring and Snnuner., South Carolina. Re^. 



-3f. A. Curtis and S. W. Ravenel^ Usq. 

 Brown. Stem 2 inches or more high, flexuous, compressed or grooyed, at 



first minutely tomentose, at length smooth ; head f inch long, cylindrical, 



but slightlj attenuated at either end. Perithecia free, ovate; asci veiy long; 



sporidia very long, filiform, breaking up into joints -nrirnr ^^ wi inch long. 



This species has very much the habit of C. sinerms. 



6. OoBDTCEPS PALtrsTBiS, Berk. ^Broome; camoso-suberosa, sordid^ cameo- 

 fe^ca; stipite cylindrico sursum bifido trifidove, capitulis clavatis sub- 

 cylindricis ex ostiolis asperulis j sporidiis filiformibus in articulos minimos 

 globosos solvendis. Sav. no. Il8. {Plate 1. fig. h.) 



On moist putrid logs, undoubtedly attached to larv». Northampton Swamp, 

 South CaroUna. May. H. W. Ravenel, Usq. 



From 1-2 inches high, about half as much when dry, of a dull brownish- 

 purple or flesh-colour ; camoso-suberose ; stem cylindrical, pulverulent, 

 divided above, ahout as long as the clavate head, but scarcely so thick. 

 Head rough with the mouths of the globose perithecia. Asci long, flexuous, 



filled with moniliform strings of globose, extremely minute grains, at length 

 discharged in the form of white flocci. Articulations of the sporidia not 

 exceeding ^ttSto of an inch in diameter. 



The extremely minute articulations or sporidiola, without any 

 ther character, separate this curious species, which has moreover 

 peculiar habit. 





Monstrosity of the Flowers of Sajponaria officinalis. 



Maxwell T. Maotebs, Esq. Communicated 



Secretary. 



[Read Nov. 18th, 1856.] 



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Much discussion has from time to time arisen among Morpholo- 

 gists, aa to the exact nature of the scales found on the petals of so 

 ^any of the Cary&phyllem. The early botanists were content to call 

 them nectaries, scales of the corona, appendages to the petals, Ac, 

 ^thout attempting to explain them further. M. Dunal and the 

 *^pporters of the theory of transverse chorisis, consider them to 

 afford good illustrations of that process. This notion has also the 

 ?^port of Dr, Asa Gray, who institutes a comparison between 





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