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PEZIZA ODORATA. 
Cups .§ to 3 in. broad, gregarious or scattered, thin, sessile, 
rather brittle when fresh, shallow expanded or even convex from 
the decurving of the margin, at first brownish, then white or whit- 
ish, the hymenium ochraceous-brown; asci cylindrical, opening 
by a lid, .o1 to .o12 in. long, .0006 to .ooo8 broad, paraphyses 
filiform, obscurely septate, slightly thickened at the tips; spores 
elliptical, even, .0008 to .0009 in. long, .0004 to .0005 broad. 
Ground ina cellar. Maine. June. F. L. Harvey. 
The plant when fresh has a peculiar fungoid odor suggestive 
of that of chestnut blossoms. The species is apparently allied to 
P. Petersu,from which it may be distinguished by its larger spores 
and distinct but peculiar odor. The spores also are not binucleate, 
as in that species. In drying, the hymenium is apt to become 
blackish. ; 
SLEROTINIA INFUNDIBULIFORMIS. 
Cups thin, regularly infundibuliform, glabrous, stipitate, rugose, 
bay-brown; hymenium even, bay-brown; stem long, slender, 
flexuous, attenuated downwards, colored like the cup, sometimes 
a little darker toward the base, yrowing from a small wrinkled 
black sclerotium; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, .005-.006 in. long, 
.0004—.0005 broad; spores elliptical, .c005 in. long, .00025 broad ; 
paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened at the apex; cups 3-4 
lines broad and high ; stem about 6 lines long. 
Wet woods. Newfoundland. August. Waghorne. 
Further Observations on Antidromy, 
By GEORGE MACLOSKIE, 
It was shown in the BuLteTin of last year (p. 389, 466) by = 
examples drawn from a large number of orders of Phaenogams, 
that there are probably two castes, a dextrorse and a sinistrorse, of 
every species. This “ antidromy”’ was also traced generally to 4 
diversity of the embryo in the seed, depending on whether it 
grows on one or other margin of a carpellary leaf. A further 
explanation, then only suggested, proves to hold in many cases: 
namely, that a forking rootstock produces antidromic plants on ~ 
the two branches of the fork. This last explanation applies tO — 
such cases as Richardia, Podophyllum, Nuphar, Helonias, Chaemae- 
