Rev. M. J. Berkeley on Exotic Fungi, 399 



On leaves of Musacecs, East Indies. Dr. Wight. Cells 

 arranged in lines^ following the nervation of the leaf. 



3. D, {Aster oma) conspurcata, Berk. Flat^ membranous, 

 uniform, orbicular, dull pitch-brown; perithecia few, scattered, 

 hemispherical, of the same colour. Forming small brown 

 spots on the under and upper side of the leaf, exactly like fly- 

 specks. The margin though irregular is not the least fimbri- 

 ate, or it would more properly be placed in the genus Aste- 

 roma. 



On the leaves of a myrtle called Lwm^, in hilly woods. Juan 

 Fernandez. Bertero. May, 1830. No. 1728. Not in Mont. 

 Fl. Fern. 



Phacidium. 



p. depressum, Hook. Mss. Sph, ? depressa^ Hook, in 

 Kunth. Syn. vol. i. p. 7. Scattered, orbicular, depressed, 

 opening with 5 — 6 black acute laciniae ; disk black, at length 

 naked, bordered by the excipulum. About the size of P. co- 

 ronatum, Asci short, linear, obtuse. I do not find curved 

 paraphyses as in that species. 



Andes, with S* gracilis, Humboldt. 



EXCIPULA. 



E, gregaria, Fr. in Linn. 1. c. p. 552. On petioles of Ca- 

 rica Papaya, Mauritius. Mr. Bojer. 



Geasteb. 



1. Geaster plicatusy Berk, Geaster striatus^y plicatus,Kl, 

 Mss. in Hook. Herb. Outer peridium soft, papyraceous, pale 

 umber, smooth ; laciniae about 'J, acute ; inner peridium seated 

 on a long peduncle, globose, dark umber, smooth, strongly 

 plicate at the base ; orifice seated in a circular depression, co- 

 nical, plicato-sulcate. Sporidia brown. 



Madras. Dr. Wight. Nearly allied to G, striatuSy /?. mi- 

 nimus, but certainly distinct. The folds at the base of the 

 inner peridium are very remarkable. 



2. G, limbatus, Fr. North America. Dr. Richardson. 



3. G. minimus, Schwein. ! North America. Dr. Richardson. 



4. G, rufescens, Pers. G, fimbriatus, Kl. in Linn. North 

 America. Dr. Richardson. 



5. G. hygrometricuSjFers, North America. Dr. Richardson. 



