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Our present species was gathered, along with many other 

 new plants, by M. Bertero, in the Island of Juan Fernandez, 

 and by him kindly communicated to me. 



[TAB. LXXIX.] 



CYCLOMYCES FUSCA. 



Gen. Char. — Cyclomyces. Kunze. (Loxophyllum. Klotzsch, 

 MSS.) Hymenium sinuoso-lamellatum, e lamellis trans- 

 versis basin arcuatim ambiens, oculo armato scabrius- 

 culum, margine plerumque nunc lamellas anastomosan- 

 tes nunc poros elongates referens, cum pilei substantia 

 homogeneum et concretum {lamellas ut in Dcedalea 

 nunquam conjunctione membrana duplici.) Substantia 

 coriacea, fibrosa. — Genus a Dcedalea satis distinctum. 

 Klotzsch, MSS. 



Cyclomyces fusca. " Kunze." 



Loxophyllum velutinum. Klotzsch, MSS. 



Hab. In Insula Mauritii. JD. D. Telfair. Bojer. 



Pileus sessilis, imbricatus, basi effusus, coriaceo-tenuis, cer- 

 asino-fuscus, eleganter velutinus, zonis concoloribus, mar- 

 gine subpatente undulato, 2-2^ uncias latus, unciam 

 circiter longus, lamellis trans versis densis interruptis 

 castaneo-fuscis, lineam altis, aculeis setiformibus minutissi- 

 mis distantibus obtectis, subinde crenulato-incisis, mar- 

 gine in poros abeuntibus. Klotzsch, MSS. 



This extremely elegant Fungus has been communicated to 

 me by my liberal friends from the Mauritius. The name of 

 Cyclomyces fusca of Kunze has been given to me for it; but 

 I know not in what work it is published by that appellation ; 

 nor whether, as I suspect, it is merely in the MSS. of that 

 author. The colour is a rich and ferruginous brown, and, 

 from the compactness of the lamellae, there is a beautiful play 

 of light and shade, which gives to its under-surface a strikingly 

 rich velvety appearance. The direction of these lamellae is 

 very remarkable, and though transverse with regard to the 



