294 NEW SPECIES OF MENISCIUM. 
ultimate small ramuli; then the inside, instead of being 
tubular, is filled with the same tissue of network anastomos- 
ing in every direction from the base to the summit of all the 
branches. The colour is nearly a pure white throughout the 
main trunk and lower branches, yellowish in the upper part 
and in the upper fertile branches. 
Apothecia small, copious, giving a curiously dotted appear- 
ance to the numerous, radiating branchlets, from the apices 
of which they spring. They are dark brown; many of them, 
apparently the younger ones, are cylindrical, or approaching 
to it, the more advanced ones nearly globose, and the mature 
ones, as it would appear, for they are the largest, depresso- 
globose. Labillardiére represents and describes the younger 
apothecia, as * atra, cylindracea, apice excavata dum juniora, 
mox basim versus ampliata, cylindro a basi ad apicem per gra- 
dus evanescente, demum adulta capitata, plano-convexa, am- 
bitu paululum reflexa? But I do not find any such excava- 
tion, or rather perforation, nor any peculiar enlargement of the 
base (giving the apothecia the appearance, according to La- 
billardiere's figure, of the capsule of a Splachnum). Seen 
under a high magnifier, the apothecia appear to be granulated 
upon the surface. 
Tab. x. fig. 1. Tuft of Cenomyce retipora, and fig. 2, single 
podetium of the same; nat. size, f. 3, portion of the main 
branch; f. 4, apex of a podetium; f. 5, 6, 7, Apothecia in 
different states : figs. 3-7, more or less magnified. 
On a new Species of Meniscium, from China; by W. J. H. 
(With a Figure.—Tas. XI.) 
MENISCIUM SIMPLEX.—Hook. 
Fronde simplici elliptico-oblonga acuminata hic illic grosse 
dentato-serrata basi profunde cordata v. subhastata, subtus 
venis hirsutis. 
Has. Hong Kong, entrance of the Canton river,.—Richar d 
Brinsley Hinds, Esq. 
