520 Miscellaneous. 
gratissima, the Avocado pear of the West Indies, at present in flower 
in the garden ; Aloe umbellata, in flower ; and Weigelia rosea, a hardy 
shrub, recently introduced from China, in flower. . 
Mr. Evans exhibited flowering specimens of the following plants 
from the Caledonian Horticultural Society’s garden :—Schivereckia 
podolica; Rubus arcticus; Androsace villosa; Veronica repens; a 
curious variety of Athyrium filix-femina from Braemar; Woodsia 
Ilvensis ; and a fine plant of Paris quadrifolia, from Arniston woods 
near Edinburgh. 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
Capnodium, novum Fungorum genus. Auctore C. Monraennr, D.M. 
Peridium carnosum, polymorphum, lageniforme, clavatum aut 
ceranoideum, e duplici strato formatum, exteriori scilicet colorato 
celluloso, cellulis subirregularibus penta-hexagonis, parallelogrammis 
(in ostiolo) linearibusque, interiori mucilagineo hyalino fere anhisto, 
apice irregulariter rumpens, interdum ore fimbriatum. Nucleus ge- — 
latinosus. Sporidia subsena, oblonga, transversim triseptata tandem 
septis longitudinalibus subeuntibus cellulosa, fuscescentia, ascis late 
obovoideis vel clavatis, mox diffluenti-resorptis incluse. 
Thallis superficialis, libere evolutus, nigrescens e floccis brevibus 
contortis ramosis, moniliformibus aut cylindricis articulatis fuscis 
dense intricatis compositus.—In Australia, America boreali, Gallia 
australi et media (ad Versalias) fructiferum inventum.—Locus in 
systemate prope Antennariam. Affinitates. Habitus Antennarie, at 
Scorie, Fr. magis affine, cum et in hac nuperrime ascosinveni. Hine 
inter Gliotrichum et Scoriam nulla adest analogia; similitudinem 
quamdam, saltem ab aspectus judicio, cum Synalissa habet. Aste- 
rina et Meliola, que Capnodio magis affines, in serie diversa, diffe- 
runt, prima autem floccis seu fibrillis folio matricive applicatis nec 
liberis, nec erectis, ultima vero fibris setisve rigidis simplicibus lon- 
gissimis, quibus horrent perithecia, quas perperam pro ostiolis aliqui 
habuerunt, utraque tandem ascis oligospermis, ut formam perithe- 
ciorum globosam preteream. Quoad collum peridii elongatum, fili- 
aut corniforme, interdum ore fimbriatum, ut et morphosim sporidio- 
rum hoc nostrum genus a Melanospora, Corda, haud multum distare 
videtur. 
Typus generis Capnodii, Fumago Citri, Turpin, Mém. de Nosol. 
Végét. in Mém. Ac. Sc. de Paris, sav. étr. tom. vi. p. 240 cum icone, 
sed fructif. non intellecta nec visa. Ascos observavi in specie affini 
(C. salicinum) ad folia Salicum e sect. Cinerella, in Helvetia (d. Rof- 
favier) necnon circa Parisios (cl. Durieu) lecta. 
PODISOMA FUSCUM. 
There is a small group of Fungi, consisting of the two genera 
Podisoma and Gymnosporangium, and occurring only on different 
species of Juniper, which, in outward aspect, resemble exactly the 
gelatinous masses of certain Tremelle, though in point of fact nearly 
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