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not indirectly, and with the co-operation of deputed and 
hypothetically endowed material particles, called “nuclei or 
cell-germs,” but by a direct exercise of power and wisdom. 
MycouoeicaL Notes. 
By Freperick Currey, Esq., M.A., ESR:S:) FLE.S. 
Tue contents of the following pages are strictly in accord- 
ance with the above title, consisting of a number of detached 
observations which have been entered from time to time in 
my note-book, and which are here brought together in the 
hope that they may prove interesting to those botanists whose 
attention has been directed to the Fungi. 
Graphiola Phenicis, Poit.—By the kindness of Sir William 
Hooker I have had an opportunity of examining good 
specimens of this fungus, the history and systematic position 
of which have hitherto been somewhat obscure. Graphiola 
Phenicis is a fungus which affects the leaves of Palms, and 
which at first sight presents the appearance of a small flat 
disc, of a yellowish colour, surrounded by a black border, 
strongly resembling a Peziza or Patellaria. From the surface 
of the disc threads or fibres are frequently seen protruding, 
but these are by no means always to be found. A vertical 
section of the fungus, when magnified, shows clearly that the 
yellow disc is not imbedded in a cup, but is only surrounded by 
a ring of black carbonaceous matter. Fig. 2, Pl. X1, shows a 
vertical section slightly magnified, and fig. 1 a similar section 
of a much more open disc more highly magnified. In this 
latter figure, a represents the black outer crust, which, as 
has been stated, is aring and not acup. This black ring I 
suspect to be formed of the disorganized tissue of the leaf, 
and not to belong to the fungus itself. 61s a grumous layer, 
formed either of very minute cells or of granular matter; c, 
elongated cells of the tissue of the leaf; d, inner roundish 
cells of the tissue of the leaf; e, delicate, closely packed 
threads, springing from the granular layer and marked with 
very faint transverse lines or septa; f, a mass of yellowish 
small spores resting on the threads, and doubtless formed by 
the breaking off of the terminal cells of the threads. The 
