200 Linnean Society. [June 1, 



3. B. capsuUfer, peridiis sessilibus v. breviter membranaceo-pedicellatis 

 obovatis congestis e nigro-caesiis albidis, floccis candidis. 



Sphaerocarpus capsuUfer, Bull. t. 470. f. 2, 



Trichia capsulifera, Dec. Fl. Fran^. vol. ii. p. 254 (1815). 



Physarum capsdiferam, Chev. Par. vol. i. p. 33y (1S26)?; Duhy, Bot. 



Gall. p. 861 (1830). 

 Hob. ad muscos, in Gallia. 

 A sequentibus differt stipite spurio, peridiis magis obovatis, floccisque 



albidis. B. utriculari verosimiliter propior. 



4. Badbamia nitens, peridiis sessilibus depressis congestis nitide flavis, 

 floccis flavis, sporis extus fortiter echinulatis. 



Hah. ad ramos quercinos emortuos ; apud East Bergholt, in Com. Suffolk, 

 Febr. 21, 1851, Rev. Dr. Badham. 



5. Badhamia pallida, peridiis sessilibus depressis sublentiformibus hie 

 illic congestis sparsisque pallido-luteis, floccis flavis, sporis majoribus 

 granulatis ; vesicula ceutrali magna. 



Hab. ad ramos quercinos emortuos ; apud East Bergholt, in Com. Sufiblk, 

 Mart. 1, 1851, Rev. Dr. Badham. 



6. Badhamia fllvella, peridiis gregariis sessilibus globosis nigris 

 tomento subtili fulvo vestitis, floccis albidis. 



Hab. ad lignum emortuum ; apud East Bergholt, in Com. Suffolk, Rev, 



Dr. Badham. 

 Habitus Didymii potiiis quam Phi/sari. 



The paper was accompanied by coloured drawings, and magnified 

 representations of the details. 



Read also a memoir " On Acradenia, a new genus of Diosmea." 

 By Richard Kippist, Esq., Libr. L.S. 



The new genus described was one of a highly interesting collection 

 formed in tbe neighbourhood of Macquarrie Harbour, Van Diemen's 

 Land, by Mr. Joseph Milligan, and by him, through the late lamented 

 Mr. Bicheno, presented to the Society. It belongs to the natural 

 order Diosmea, tribe Boronieee, and in habit most nearly approaches 

 Zieria, to the larger-leaved species of which it bears at first sight 

 considerable resemblance. From this genus, however, as well as 

 from Melicope, Boronia, and Cyanothamnus, from Eriostemon, Crowea, 

 and Philotheca, and from Geleznowia, Turcz., it differs in various 

 characters which are more particularly indicated ; and it is distin- 

 guished from them all by the structure of its ovaries, which adhere 

 closely together and are everywhere clothed with a dense tomentose 

 covering ; except that each bears, at its upper external angle, a 

 naked sessile tubercle or gland, large enough to be readily observed 



