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Acrostalagmus cinnabarinus Cda. Batheaston, on decaying plants, 

 Verticillium lateritium. One of the Mucedines is found to 

 be a form of this species, with naked spores. See Corda 

 Icones c. ii, 15, t. 10, fig 66. 



OENUS 332. SYZYGITK.S* Ehh. 



Threads branched above. Vesicles of separate branches con- 

 jugating, and forming a distinct sporangium. 

 Syzygites megalocarpus Ehh. Has not occurred in our district, at 

 least in its perfect state. 



GENUS 333. ENDOGONE.t Lk. 



Hypogeous. Flocci collected into a globose, spongy mass. 

 Vesicles globose, solitary, or collected in little fascicles at the ends 

 of the branches. 

 Endogone pisiformis Lie. Near Bristol, in woods, autumn. . 



On an abnormal Flower of a Penstemon, By C. E. Broomb, F.L.S. 

 (Read March 18th, 1 885.; 



A flower of a Penstemon, communicated to me by C. Timmins, 

 Esq., in May, 1884, presented the following peculiarities : — 



The calyx was leafy, the calyx leaves nearly those peculiar to 

 the species, the corolla was situated closely above the calyx and 

 was composed of segments partly green and partly blue, one 

 stamen with its filament was normal ; the other four stamens 

 were converted into distorted green, leafy appendages ; the style 



* Syzygites, from sun, together, and zugon, a yoke, 

 t Endogone, from endon, within, and gone, seed. 



