FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA, 527 
dissemination.* The evolution of the latter is then, we see, 
of a lower grade to that of the former. But in comparing 
Gyrophragmium, especially with an Agaric, it is easy, never- 
theless, to comprehend the perfect analogy which exists be- 
tween the two series, examined towards their culminating 
point. The resemblance would be more striking still, and 
almost complete, at least as far as outer form is concerned, if it 
should appear hereafter that Montagnites also belongs to Gas- 
teromycetes, as may be fairly suspected from its resemblance 
to Gyrophragmium. Then the simplicity and independence 
of the dissepiments, carried to the highest degree, since like 
the gills of an Agaric, being fixed to the summit of the stem 
by asingle point, frequently by a short thread, they radiate 
horizontally ; then, I say, this independence and simplicity 
would raise the Gasteromycetes to the same rank as the Hy- 
menomycetes, their morphosis only excepted, which every one 
knows to be very different.” 
Contributions towards a Flora of South Africa. By Dn. C. F. 
MEISNER. 
Continued from p. 105. 
Rosace#&. 
1. Rubus rosefolius, Sm. DC. prodr. 2, p. 556.—Secus 
rivulos ad rad. Montis Tafelberg (III, D, b.), July, 1838. 
Dr. Krauss, n. 1200. 
2. Rubus pinnatus, Willd. DC.1. c. Cham. et Schl. in Lin- 
nea 2, p. 19.—Ad rivulos planitiei Capensis (III, E. b.), 
Sept. 1838. Krauss, n. 1201. R. heterophyllus, E. Meyer! 
in Hb. Drége, is very near this species, but differs in having 
the leaves pubescent underneath. 
* Even this point is, perhaps, not so strong as it appears at first sight, 
because the sporidia are perfected in many Agarics before the rupture of 
the ring or volva.—M. J. B. 
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