SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 493 



Endl. Dies. (Bot. Zeit., 1845, p. 288), near Laminaria, from Port Natal; 

 Contarinia Endl. Dies. (ib. p. 289), from the same locality, near Scytothalia ; 

 Stereocladon Hook. Harv. (Lond. Journ. of Bot., 1845, p. 250), from Ant- 

 arctic America ; Scytothamnus^Lwk. Harv. (ib.p. ^2>Y)-=Chordaria Australia 

 Ag., from New Zealand. Floridese : the Sphserococcoidese, Dicranema 

 Sond., from the Swan River (Bot. Zeit., 1845, p. 56), Sarcomenia Sond., also 

 from this locality (ib.), Phalerocarptis Endl. Dies., from Port Natal (ib. 

 p. 290), Acanthococcus Hook., Harv., from Antarctic America (1. c. p. 261), 

 and Hydropuntia Mont., which was proposed on a former occasion, but is 

 now fully described, and placed in this group as an aberrant form 

 (Voy. au Pole Sud. Bot., i.p. 166, pi. 1) ; of the Rhodomelese : Lenormandia 

 Sond. nee Mont., Kutzingla Sond., and Trygenea Sond., from the Swan 

 River (1. c. p. 54), Epineuron Harv., from New Zealand = Fucus lineatus 

 Turn., &c. (1. c. p. 352); Cladhymenia'R&r?. (Lomentariae), from New Zealand 

 (ib. p. 530) ; Apophlaa Harv. (Cryptonemese), from New Zealand (ib. p. 549), 

 and Gelinaria Sond., from the Swan River (1. c. p. 55); the Ceramiae, 

 Hanowia, Ptilocladia, and DasypUla Sond., from the Swan River (1. c. 

 pp. 52, 53). Confervacese : the Siphonese, Struvea Sond., from the Swan 

 River (1. c. p. 49), Cladothele Hook. Harv., from the Falklands (1. c. p. 293), 

 Derbesia So\ieY=Bryopsidis sp. (Rev. Bot. i, p. 452), and Arechougia Meneg., 

 one of the Confervoidese = Phycophilce Kiitz. sp. et Conferva auctor (Atti 

 di vi, riunione, p. 456). 



FUNGI. The illustrated work of Harzer is completed by the sixteenth part 

 (Naturgetreue Abbildungen der vorziiglichsten, essbaren, giftigen und ver- 

 dachtigen Pilze. Heft xvi, Dresden, 1845, 4to). New genera and mono- 

 graphic descriptions. Pyrenomycetes : De Notaris separates the following 

 types from Sphceria : Venturia, Massaria = Sp. inquinans, Tod., Rosettinia = 

 Sp. aqnila, Fr. Bertia = Sph. moriformis Tod. (Atti di vi, riunione, pp. 

 484-7, t. i). Leveille describes Lembosia and Asterina (Champigii. exotiques 

 in Ann. Sc. nat. iii, 3, pp. 58-9) ; Montagne, the new Pezizoidese, Hymeno- 

 bolus, from Algeria (ib. iii, 4, p. 359), and Aserophallus, from Cayenne 

 (ib. p. 360). Gasteromycetes : Montagne describes Xylopodium and 

 Lasioderma, from Algeria (ib. p. 364), and Czerniaiew, the following from 

 Ukraine, Endoptychum (Bull. Mosc., 1845, ii, p. 146); Trichaster (ib. p. 149); 

 Endoneuron (ib. p. 151) ; Disciseda (ib. p. 153) ; and Xyloidion (ib. p. 154). 

 The two Tulasnes have written a monograph upon the Tuberacese, Choiomyces 

 Vitt., and Picoa Vitt. Berkeley has described Podascon pistillaris Fr., 

 from the Cape de Verd Islands (Lond. Journ. of Bot., 1845, pp. 291-3, 

 t. x). Hyphomycetes : Sphteromyces Mont., from Algiers (1. c. p. 365) ; 

 Coniomycetes, Polydesmus Mont. (ib. p. 365); Phylacia Leveill. (1. c. p. 61), 

 from the group of Cytisporese to that of the Coniomycetes ; Piptostomum Lev. 

 (ib. p. 65). Podisoma macropus upon Juniperus virginiana is described by 

 Wyman and Berkeley (Lond. Journ. of Bot., 1845, pp. 315-19, 1. 12). 



