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DISCOMYCETES, 
Helotium calyculus, B. On Horse-chestnut husks. 
Scleroderris livida, Mass. On Redwood twigs. 
Onygena equina, Pers. On an old sock. 
Onygena corvina, A. & S. On skeleton of some bird. Q. 
DEUTEROMYCETES. 
Discosia Artocreas, /r. On dead herbaceous stems. 
Libertella alba, Lamb. On Genista tinctoria, var. elatior, A. 
Rhinotrichum lanosum, Cooke. Forming pale ochraceous woolly 
tufts on a damp plaster wall. £. M. W. 
Periconia byssoides, Pers. On dead stems of Urtica. Q. C.O. F. 
Stachylidium cyclosporum, Grove. Onrotten wood. Q. #.M. W. 
Dendryphium comosum, Wallr. On dead stems of Urtica. Q. EL. M.W. 
Sporodesmium chartarum, B. § C. Ondamp plaster wall. £.M.W. 
Dictyosporium elegans, Corda. On dead palm leaf. Q. £. MW. W, 
Volutella nivea, Sacc. Onan old Scleroderma vulgare. Q. 
LII—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
. C. O. FarquHarson, B.Sc., of the University of 
Aberdeen, has been appointed by the Seeretary of State for the 
Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Mycologist in Southern 
Nigeria 
Pencil Cedar.—In a recent letter to the arate of Agri- 
culture for the West Indies Mr. J. C. Moore, Agricultural 
Superintendent for St. Lucia, reports the dasdeery of a juniper 
from the Petit Piton in that island. Some 14 years ago he had 
been informed by Mr. Evelyn, then Chief Clerk at the Government 
Office at St. Lucia, that a coniferous tree was found on the top o 
this Piton and that it was the Pencil Cedar. It was, however, not 
until ane recently that Mr. C. Devaux succeeded in securing 
specimens from that almost inaccessible locality. There are, 
detording to him, only half-a-dozen trees there and they are 
stunted by wind. The altitude of the station where the tree grows 
is given as 2460 feet. A fruiting specimen, together with a section 
of a branch to show the wood, have been received at Kew from the 
Commissioner of Agriculture. The tree proves to be Juniperus 
barbadensis, L., a species closely allied to J. virginiana, L., and 
. bermudiana, te with both of which it is frequently confused, as 
has been pointed out by Professor Sargent (Sylva of N. America, 
xiv. 9, t. 738). The area of this tree on the continent is 
distinctly littoral, pea oa on the Atlantic Coast from Southern 
Georgia to about 27° N. lat. in Florida, and on the Gulf Coast of 
Florida from about 27° to 30° N. lat., but it also includes a number 
