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exceeds most of the species of Pyrenochseta, the diameter 

 of the perithecium being about 1 mm. when the setae are 

 included. Numerous brown septate hyphse pass from the 

 base of the perithecium and penetrate the tissues of the 

 host in all directions. 



Pyrenochceta Ilicis, n. sp. — Peritheciis amphigenis, 

 sparsis, ovoideis vel subglobosis, '3-'5 mm. diam. innato- 

 erumpentibus, subcarbonaceis, atris, setis multis, nigris, 

 rigidis, continuis, 200-400 /x superne vestitis ; ostiolo 

 prominulo, rotundo ; basidiis filiformibus, alterne ramulosis, 

 ramulis brevibus ; sporulis cylindricis, utrinque obtusis, 

 continuis, hyalinis, 6-7 = 1-2 / u. 



Hab. : In foliis dejectis Ilicis Aquifolii, Wimbledon in 

 Britannia. 



Considering the abundance of the host it is rather sur- 

 prising that no record of this fungus has been previously 

 published. 



Agathosma trichocarpa, n. sp. 

 By E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. (Plate II.) 



Since the publication of Harvey and Sonder's " Flora 

 Capensis " many undescribed specimens of rutaceous plants 

 have been detected in Cape Colony, and not a few of these 

 have as yet remained unnamed in herbaria. The species 

 of the genera in the Diosmeae, in particular, are so closely 

 allied that it is difficult in the absence of complete material 

 to separate one species from another. The plant to which 

 I have given the above name occurs in herbaria under a 

 number only, as No. 5240, Schlechter, " Plantae Afric. 

 Austr." The specimen I received was in fruit, and was 

 sent to me as a variety of Buchu used in S.E. Africa by 

 the natives, by Mr. Stephen R. Webb, and was collected by 

 Dr. Froembling. 



On comparing it at the Kew Herbarium, a specimen 

 identical with it, but without flowers, was found there, and 

 subsequently a specimen of the same plant in flower was 

 met with in the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



Dr. F. Schinz of Zurich having paid much attention to 



