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those of the other series; the lowest not intruded between the second 

 pair of marginal cells; the four or five distal ones smaller, and lying 

 beside the perithecium. Distal cell of the base of the primary ap- 

 pendage free, divergent, short and broad; longer than the somewhat 

 flattened basal cell. Appendages short and stout, somewhat inflated. 

 Antheridia large and slightly curved, with relatively short stout necks. 

 Perithecia rather narrow, curved toward the posterior side and of 

 nearly uniform diameter; the tip, only, free, except at its abruptly 

 spreading base; the apex not distinguished, broadly rounded. Peri- 

 thecium 50 X 12-14 /x. Appendages 10 X 4 /x- Antheridia 12-16 X 

 4-5 /x. Total length to tip of perithecium 160-180 X 30-40 fx. 



On Episcaphula sp.. No. 2446, Kamerun. 



Two specimens, only, have been examined, neither of them in very 

 good condition. The species seems well distinguished, however, from 

 its subsigmoid habit, and the protruding finger-like tip of its perithe- 

 cium. 



Rickia Saulae nov. sp. 



Receptacle triseriate, hyaline, becoming suffused with dirty brown- 

 ish distally; basal cell abruptly bent, short and stout: anterior series 

 consisting of eight cells extending to or slightly beyond the middle of 

 the perithecium, the second and third more than twice as long as 

 broad, all somewhat rounded, becoming smaller distally, the upper 

 three in contact with the perithecium and overlapping it so as to be 

 hardly visible externally, all cutting off small cells distally and ex- 

 ternally, which bear appendages or normal antheridia; one to three 

 of the middle members cutting off two such cells, which are asymmetri- 

 cally related, lying side by side or partly superposed : posterior series 

 similar to the anterior in number, and extending to about the same 

 point on the perithecium; the distal cells so placed that they do not 

 appear externally, lying obliquely opposite the corresponding cells of 

 the anterior series; the primary appendage and its base not clearly 

 distinguishable: median series consisting of only four visible cells, 

 three lying below the perithecium, the two lower much longer, the 

 lowest intruded between the second pair of marginal cells nearly to 

 their bases. Perithecium relatively large, nearly as broad as the 

 receptacle, becoming rather deeply and somewhat unevenly suffused 

 with brown, the tip and base paler; median, slightly tilted inward, 

 nearly symmetrical; subtended by a distinct stalk-cell; stout, the 

 margins more or less continuously curved to the broad blunt apex; 



