200 ON TWO HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI. 
Bridges, and it probably inhabits all the colder and tempe- 
rate parts of Chili. ; 
The older branches are terete, clothed with brownish bark: 
the younger ones pinnate ancipiti-compressed, and clothed with 
small imbricated leaves in four rows : and these leaves are of 
two different kinds: the lateral ones, which are exactly opposite 
and complicato-carinate, so that they may almost be called 
equitant, their form ovate and singularly decurrent ; on both 
sides is rather a deep groove filled with a glaucous pulveru- 
lent substance: the intermediate leaves are very minute, 
also opposite and stipuliform (like the stipules or amphi- 
gastra of a Jungermannia, ovato-rotund, obtuse and carinate. 
Capsules copious, terminal, drooping, about three-quarters of 
an inch long, coriaceous, ovate, deeply 4-valved ; the valves 
obtuse, each of them below the apex furnished with a short 
spine-like tubercle: of these valves two (opposite) arè - 
about four times smaller than the other two. Seeds four In 
each capsule, each with an obliquely erect (with regard to 
the seed) oblong, or ovato-oblong, membranous wing. ce 
Tas. IV. Fig. 1. Leafy branches. f. 2. Capsule. f. 3- 
The same bursting open. f. 4-5. Seeds :—all magnified. 
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On two Hymenomycerous Fowor, belonging to the Lyco- 
. perdaceous group, by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, MA» 
F.L.S. (Tass. V. VI. VII.) eS 
Few Fungi have as yet been received from Southern 
Africa; but, from the collections hitherto made in that coum” - 
try, it is evident that far the most striking feature isthe — 
variety of forms under which the Lycoperdaceous go 
presents itself to the notice of the mycologist. Notonly ux 
common European genera and even species occur, while the - 
curious Batarrea, represented by the British species, acto 
panies them ; but we have Podaxon Carcinomatis* on t 
` * The specific name is so spelt in the Linnæan Herbarium, where 5E 
original specimen remains in excellent preservation. c 
