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CARPOLOGY OF PEZIZA. 



Fig. 111. P. albocincta, B. ^ C, Ray. Fungi Car., No. 949. 

 „ 112. P. umbrata, Fr., Kabh. Fungi Eur., No. 217. 

 ,, 113. P. setosa, Nees, ex. herb. Kritschuiar. 

 „ 114. P. scutellata, Linn., Pckl. Fungi Rhen., No. 1210. 

 ,, 115. P. olivascens, Cooke (macrochieta), Erb. Critt. Ital., 585. 

 ,, 116. P. Kerguelensis, B., ex. Herb., Kew. 

 „ 117. P. stercorea, Pers., ex. herb. A. Jerdon, Esq. 



„ 118. P. theleboloides, A. & 8., Cooke Fungi Bntt., No. 571. a, an ex- 

 ternal hair from the cup. 

 „ 119. P. rubra, Cooke, Cooke Fuugi Britt., No. 572. a, an external hair 



from the cup. 

 „ 120. P. CarestisB, Ces., Erb. Critt. Ital., No. 288. 

 ,, 121. P. Dalmeniensis, Cooke, from Dalmeney, N. B. a, an external hair 



from the cup, reduced to one half its length and breadth from" the 



camera lucida drawing. 



^CIDIUM SCROPHULARIiE. 



^cidiimi Scrophularise is assuredly one of the most ciTrions. 

 species of a very interesting genus. It was originally described 

 as turning dark in age, but no reason was assigned for it, nor does 

 this appear to be the case in more recent publications. The 

 spores are yellow at first but gradfially lose their colour more 

 or less, the edge of the peridium not projecting in a stellate 

 manner as in many species, but being inflected so that each 

 individual plant looks like a little Peziza In an early stage, as 

 we have received the plant from the Rev. M. Anderson of 

 Menmuir, there does not seem to be any tendency to a change of 

 colour, nor is there anything in that condition to attract especial 

 notice. After a time, however, the orbicular patches of peridia^ are 

 surrounded by a ring of irregular brown flat pustules, the nature of 

 which seems hitherto to have been misunderstood, for they are not 

 discolored peridia, but consist of a distinct species of Uromyces 

 with obovate spores, each seated on a very slender pedicel which 

 is attenuated downwards. How far it may be a peculiar condition 

 of the yEcidium is very uncertain. If it be true that there is any 

 connection between the mildew of the wheat and the yEcidium of 

 the barberry, the presumption would be against the Uromyces 

 being a condition of the Mcidium, but doubtless there are several 

 points in these curious plants which were once undeservedly too 

 much disregarded by systematists which need further investi- 

 gation. For the present the Uromyces, may be described under 

 the name of Uromyces concomitans B. and Br. Pustulis irregu- 

 laribus depressis, peridia (Ecidii cingentibus ; sporis obovatis, 

 pedicellis tenuibiis deorsum attenuatis brevioribus. — M. J. B., 

 " Gardeners' Chronicle,'" Aug. 22, 1874, pp. 228, fig. 50. 



The figure illustrating this notice, as well as that of Puccinia 

 Malvacearum, were kindly lent for that purpose by the proprietors 

 of the Gardeners'' Chronicle. [PI. xxxi. xxxii.] 



