142 ENUMERATION OF FUNGI. 
areole, dotted with the black minute ostiola. Stem various — 
in length, darker than the head, but opaque; smooth, with a 
little down at the base. Perithecia, which are perhaps im- 
mature as they contained no asci or sporidia, pale, not 
prominent, with the exception of the ostiolum. In form 
resembling Spheria cornuta. 
16. Rhizomorpha corynephora (Kze.) Host. No. 179. 
Enumeration of Funai, collected by H. CvwiNc, Ese. PLS 
in the Philippine Islands, by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, 
M.A. F.L.S. 
(With Figures, Tab. VI. figs. 4 & 5, and Tab. VII. 
figs. 6-11.) 
Perhaps in no part of botany so little has been done with 
regard to geographical distribution, as in Fungi. The collec 
tions which arrive from time to time from extra-European 
countries, are seldom more than partial, and still more rarely 
made by botanists versed in these obscure and often despised 
vegetables. A few of the more striking and easily preserv 
species are gathered, and the rest remain unobserved or neg- 
lected. Schweinitz’s treatises on the Fungi of a portion of the ` 
United States, afford us most interesting materials for the 
comparison of European and North American mycology. The 
Fungi of Bertero, from Juan Fernandez, described by Mon- 
tagne, and doubtless a tolerably complete collection, afford 
another point of comparison with a temperate region of the 
Southern Hemisphere ; and the account of the Fungi of Java 
lately extracted by Montagne, in * Annales des Sciences Ne 
turelles," which may likewise be regarded as pretty full, vil 
give a good notion of the mycologic treasures of a tropic? 
island ; and we shall shortly have an opportunity of compar 
ing these with the vegetation of an island within the tropic 
of the Western Hemisphere, when Dr. Montagne’s Illustra- 
tions of the Fungi of Cuba appear. 
The present collection from the Philippine Isles, if com- 
