FUNGOID GALL, FROM PARA. 291 
In very early stages of the pistil of Glaucium, I observe precisely the 
same structure as in Eschscholtzia ; and we have only to suppose the 
stigmatie lobes of the latter to be contracted and confluent, and a 
pistil like that of the former is the result. Dr. Lin indley has noticed 
that Chelidonium and- Hypecown exhibit a tendency to extend the apex 
of the peduncle; and I observe that in Glaucium such a tendency 
strikingly resembles what takes place in Zschscholtzia, though it is 
not carried to the same extent. In Glaucium, again, the sepals detach 
themselves as readily round the base as in Hschscholtzia ; and I have 
found a plant of the latter, where the sepals constantly became separated 
at their margins, whilst one of them remained attached by the base to 
the pedicel. In this case the more persistent sepal had a tendency to 
assume a foliaceous character with marginal incisions. The con- 
ditions presented by the stigmata of these bi-carpellary genera require 
only slight modifications to assume the conditions presented by the 
stigmata of multicarpellary genera of the same order. 
On a FUNGOID GALL, from Pará; by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M. A., 
FES: 
(Tab. X. B.) 
Some years since a notice was published in the Transactions of the 
Linnæan Society, (vol. xviii. p. 575., Tab. 39. A.), respecting a Gall 
produced on the leaf of some Ochnad from South America, and com- 
municated by Mr. Macleay. Two or three analogous productions have 
since that period been submitted to me from their striking resemblance 
to Fungi; but none so remarkable as the subject of the present note, 
Which was gathered in Pará, by Capt. Sir Everard Home, R. N., in 
1836. Like other analogous forms, it occurs indifferently on the upper 
or under side of the leaf, bursting through the cuticle, and appearing 
under the form of a stipitate cup a quarter of an inch long, and at first 
furnished with a convex lid, which at length falls off, leaving the edge 
of the cup perfectly even; the whole resembling very closely a large 
Craterium. The cup splits on very slight pressure longitudinally ; but 
this is probably not the case when fresh. No information was commu- 
nicated as to the nature of the insect by which it was produced ; indeed 
it was supposed to be a parasitic fungus. There is a little black disc 
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