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greenish-black ; asci linear ; sporidia elliptic ; margin pellucid. — 

 3.^Br.,Ann.N.H., iVo. 1489, t 2,/. 5. 



On Primus padus. New Pitsligo. 



Sporidia (-0009 in.) -023 m.m. long. One of the most curious 

 circumstances about this species is that some of the asci contain a 

 very delicate spiral thread or line. — B. ^- Br. 



Fatellaria Fergussoni. B. cf Br. 



Stem short, incrassated upward ; cups plane, externally brown, 

 granulose ; hymenium plane or pulvinate, yellow ; asci elongated ; 

 sporidia filiform, paraphyses with a globose head. — B. ^ Br., Ann, 

 N.H., No. 1490, t. 2,/. 6. 



On Prunus jyadus. New Pitsligo. 



Sporidia (-009 in.) '22 m.m. long. 



Ascobolus consociatus. B. ^ Br. 



Cups externally rugose, granulated, pallid, yellow or whitish ; 

 asci clavate, short; paraphyses linear; sporidia biseriate, broadly 

 lusiform.— 5. ^- Br., Ann. N.H., No. 1491, t. 2, Jig. 7. 



On the remains of Sphceria cupulifera. April. 



Cups •003-'01 inch diam. 



HEPATICiE OF BORNEO.* 



Professor Notaris has recently described the species of Hepaticfe 

 found by Dr. Beccari at Sarawak, in the " Memoirs of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Turin," a reprint of which in a separate 

 form has just been issued, fully illustrated. The number of species 

 enumerated is 51, of which about one half are new. Most of the 

 old species occur in Java and Sumatra, and two or three extend to 

 Ceylon. C ne new genus is characterised under the name oi 

 Diploscyphus, to which one species is referred. From the preface 

 we learn that Dr. Sande Lacoste enumerated 45 species of Bornean 

 Hepaticae in his "Jungermanni* of the Indian Archipelago," which 

 was published in 1864, of which not more than foiir occur in the 

 present collection, which raises the number to 92. The twenty 

 quarto plates add considerably to the value of the work, for though 

 names may change, and the limits of species vary in acceptation in 

 the course of a few generations, faithful figures will always prove 

 valuable, even long after the letterpress which accompanies them 

 ceases to be of much service. This is the case in all branches of 

 Natural History, and it is especially so in Cryptogamic Botany. 

 It is on account of their plates that Schoefifer, Batsch, and Nees 

 von Esenbeck are known to the present generation of mycologists 

 as some of the present will be known to the future. 



* Epatiche di Borneo, raccolte dal Dr. O. Beccari nel ragiato di Sarawak 

 durante gli anni 1865 7 descritte dal Dr. G. de Notaria. Torino, 1874. 



