(128) 



May not this so-called species be some battered stumps of some other 

 of the genus? A species said to be common in Dillwyn's time can 

 scarcely, one would think, have entirely disappeared. 



ELACHISTA CtJRTA. 



EXPLANATION OF DISSECTIONS, &c. 



Fig. 1. — Elachista curta, natural size. 

 2. — "Paranemata" and filaments. 

 3. — Same with a spore. 

 4. — Portion of a filament. All magnified. 

 (Reduced from Phyc. Brit.) 



