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It was only seen in the advanced state in which it is here repre- 

 sented, when the volva^ which sends down two or three 

 rather stout fibrous radicles from its lower extremity, had 

 burst at the upper into 3 unequal lobes ; and the stipes and 

 receptacle had attained to a height of 3-4 inches, both of a 

 yellowish colour, and remarkably delicate cellular texture, 

 hollow in the middle. The receptacle or pileus had so much 

 the appearance of a honey-comb as to suggest the generic 

 name. The cells were filled with gelatinous, dark-green 

 sporidia : but in the spirits the sporidia were washed out, and 

 the whole pileus was of a somewhat gelatinous texture, and 

 cancellated, as represented at fig. 2, the edges of the bars 

 regularly crisped. The plant yielded a powerful smell. 



Tab.LXXXVI. Simblum periphragmoides. i^/^. 1,1, Plants: 

 — natural size. Fig. 2, Portion of the receptacle, (free 

 from seeds) : — magnified. 



[TAB. LXXXVII.] 



MYONIMA MULTIFLORA. 



Tetrandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Rubiace^. 



Gen. Char. — Myonima. Coram. Cal. tubus globosus, lim- 

 bus minimus, obtuse 8- (4-) dentatus. Cor. tubo brevi, 

 limbo obtuse 4-partito. Stam. 4, filamentis bi'evibus, an- 

 theris oblongis exsertis. Stigmata 4, linearia, brevia, 

 crassiuscula, approximata (vix semper?) fere concreta. 

 Bacca globosa non coronata, 4-pyrena, pyrenis monosper- 

 mis, carni adhaerentibus. Semina meniscoideo-umbilicata, 

 medio affixa. Albu7ne?i car nosum. E7nbr2/o dorsalis, erectasy 

 radicula infera teretiuscula, cotyled. cordatis obtusis. DC. 



Myonima multifiora ; foliis subsessilibus basi subcordatis 

 ovato-oblongis acutis supra nitidis nervoso-reticulatis, 

 subtus venosis, corymbis terminalibus. DC. (Tab. 

 LXXXVII. A.) « Rich, in Mem. Soc. H. N. Par. 

 V. 5. p. 132." De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 463. — Myonima 



