Rev. M. J. Berkeley on Exotic Fungi, 399 



On leaves of Musacece, East Indies. Dr. Wight. Cells 

 arranged in lines, following the nervation of the leaf. 



3. D. [Asteroma) conspurcata, Berk. Flat, membranous, 

 uniform, orbicular, dull pitch-brown; perithecia few, scattered, 

 hemispherical, of the same colour. Forming small brown 

 spots on the under and upper side of the leaf, exactly Hke fly- 

 specks. The margin though irregular is not the least fimbri- 

 ate, or it would more properly be placed in the genus Aste- 

 roma. 



On the leaves of a myrtle called Z^<m«, in hilly woods. Juan 

 Fernandez. Bertero. May, 1830. No. 1728. Not in Mont. 

 Fl. Fern. 



Phacidium. 



p. depressum, Hook. Mss. Sph, ? depressa, Hook, in 

 Kunth. Syn. vol. i. p. ?• Scattered, orbicular, depressed, 

 opening with 5 — 6 black acute laciniae ; disk black, at length 

 naked, bordered by the excipulum. About the size of P. co- 

 ronatum. Asci short, Hnear, obtuse. I do not find curved 

 paraphyses as in that species. 



Andes, with B, gracilis, Humboldt. 



EXCIPULA. 



E, gregaria, Fr. in Linn. 1. c. p. 552. On petioles of Ca- 

 rica Papaya, Mauritius. Mr. Bojer. 



Geaster. 



1 . Geaster plicatuSy Berk. Geaster striatus, y plicatus, Kl, 

 Mss. in Hook. Herb. Outer peridium sofl, papyraceous, pale 

 umber, smooth ; laciniae about 7, acute ; inner peridium seated 

 on a long peduncle, globose, dark umber, smooth, strongly 

 plicate at the base ; orifice seated in a circular depression, co- 

 nical, phcato-sulcate. Sporidia brown. 



Madras. Dr. Wight. Nearly allied to G, striatus, /3, mi- 

 nimus, but certainly distinct. The folds at the base of the 

 inner peridium are very remarkable. 



2. G. limbatus, Fr. North America. Dr. Richardson. 



3. G, minimus, Schwein. ! North America. Dr. Richardson. 



4. G, rufescens, Pers. G, fimbriatus, Kl. in Linn. North 

 America. Dr. Richardson. 



5. G, hygrometricus,FeYs. North America. Dr. Richardson. 



