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mycelium. Asci broad fusoid — oblong, sessile, narrowed at both 

 ends, i^araphysate, 8 — spored, 70 — 80 x 15 — 20 ii. Sporidia 

 cylindric — fusoid, multiseptate, constricted at the septa so as to 

 l^resent a moniliform appeai'anoe, yellowish — hyaline, 30 — 50 n. 

 long, the joints 5 — 7 x 4 — 6 u. 



The specimens wei'e not fully mature, and the sporidia re- 

 fused to leave the asci, so that their exact length may not be 

 accurately stated. 



A QUANK HUNT. 



The following is a note omitted in our last Journal (through 

 pressure on our space) from the valuable commentary by Mr. T. 

 W. Carr upon his son's paper " A Quank Hunt." There are 

 Koms more notes, but these arrived too late for this Journal, and, 

 it is hoped, they will be embodied in some other form in another 

 article. 



V. Vines and lianes (liane is the Creole-French term for a 

 ligneous vv^yth or bushrope ; hejuco or r>ejuco, in Spanish). These 

 plants are ubiquitous in tropic American forests, they are rope-like, 

 from one to some inches in diameter accord-^ig to age and kind. 

 They climb to the tops of the highest trees and only then burst 

 into llower ; and tangle there in a luxuriant mass. It is curious to 

 find this form in so many of the Natural Orders : the native bancs 

 number at least 18 (N.O.) Dilleniacea includes the water-wythe 

 (linn'; de Veau) ; Folygalea, the boa-like /mne po^'we, Securiclaca. 

 The Gamboge order ^delds the Arali. Tei'nstraimiacea contains 

 the richly-fiowered ' Prince of Wales Plume,' native of this and 

 cf Guiana. M al inytidcea owns the orchid-like, petalled, yellow- 

 flowered Htiyiaaphylla. In Rharanea is the Chawstick {liane 

 savoa). The Grape-order, Ampelida, contains the Blister-leaf, 

 Cissus sicyiyides, also the Vitis caribbcea. The Sapindaxea\contvawA 

 several bushropes, notably the supplejacks (several species.) The 

 Legume order has the biggest, toughest, most singular of_all, the 

 broad, flattened, jiale-skinned, many-stemmed, wavy monster, the 

 chain-wythe or liane /ai'sry'o -so-called from a resemblance to 

 beef cut on tlie Pampas or Llanos, salted, dried in the sun 

 ff)r export to Trinidad or Cuba. The showy-flowering 



Mncuna belong also to Lrgurninoyfcc — with several other lianes, 

 trailers, climbers and vines. The Brush-liane whose long, even- 

 topped mass of scarlet flowers takes the form of a butler's crumb- 

 brush, belongs to the Myrobalayts order {Corahrelaccd-). The 

 usually herl)aceous Passion flowers, of which Trinidad owns 

 several v.ild species, has at least one ligneous-stemmed example, 



