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except the first-mentioned one, showed any sign of the fungus after 
death, and indeed on seeing the foul putrid mass of water an 
decayed sticks in which the trees’ roots had been living, I was more 
surprised that they had lived so long than that they had died. 
“ A pout the end of last year, a small tree eight inches through in 
another part of the garden was overset with several others by a 
e and its roots were badly broken. It was replaced in position 
but never recovered and remained erect, but dead for some time. 
“Tt then developed the fungus in several parts of the stem from 
about 5 feet downwards.” 
Sphaerulina Worsdellii, Massee. 
Perithecia late gregaria, globoso-lenticularia, epidermide velata, 
membranacea, atra, contextu densiuscule parenchymatico fuligineo, 
ostiolo vix papillulato donata, 120-130 diametro. Asc? apara- 
RhyeeHs rotundati, crassiuscule tunicati, octospori. Sporae cylin- 
Pap ong nla ca diu 1-septatae, demum 3-septatae, 24-25 x 
fl. 
TROPICAL Arrica. Damaraland: near Welwitsch; on the 
dead tips of leaves of Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. f., W. 
Worsdell. ‘ 
PILuLA, Massee; gen. nov. 
Perithecia superficialia, globosa, astoma, membranacea, glabra, 
pallida. Asci elongato-fusoidei, octospori, aparaphysati. Sporue 
ellipsoideae, l-septatae, hyalinae. 
Superficially this genus closely resembles Eurotium in the pale 
coloured, superficial, astomous perithecia, but differs markedly in 
the elongated asci and the elliptical, 1-septate spores. 
; i in stipite longiusculo attenuati, cito diffluentes, 85-90 x 
-15 uw. Sporae ellipsoideae, utrinque subacutae, 1-septatae, ad 
septum non constrictae, hyalinae, 12-15 x 6 a 
TropicaL Arrica, N i i 
» Nyasaland: Zomba; appeared in quantity 
on some cotton wool or simila fi 
o Stadert Te MACER r substance used for packing fungl, 
orming a densely gregarious patch of mi 
‘ cf ee ee inute straw-coloured 
globose perithecia, indistinguishable under a lens from Eurotium. 
‘TUBERACEAE. 
indurata, atrobrunne inutissi 
: : F a, Minutissime verru- 
on pense: nulla, fibris radicalibus destituta, 3-5 cm. 
-_ Sporae globosae, episporio ubique majuscule verrucoso, 
saturate olivaceo-brunneae, 12-16 pu diam 
Inpra. United Provinces, I, H. Burkill, 29,518 
018, 
An edible species, eaten b i i 
» eaten by the natives, A ho- 
ee papillatus, Vitt., in the minutely wiREeT otitis, bad 
ering markedly in the larger, coarsely warted spores. 
