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VII. Supplementary Observations onAhe Sphæriæ of the Hookerian Herbarium. 
By FREDERICK CURREY, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. L.S. 
Read June 15th, 1865. 
THE present paper is intended as a supplement to two previous communications on 
te same subject, published in the 22nd volume (pp. 257, 313) of the Society's Trans- 
xtions; and its object is to point out which of the species there figured have been 
ieseribed from authentic specimens, and, with regard to the non-authentic specimens, 
state by whom the plants have been named. As this paper was on the point of going 
b the press, Sir William Hooker’s long and distinguished career was brought to a 
dose; and I must therefore express to Dr. Hooker alone my gratitude for the liberality 
ad kindness shown to me by his lamented father and himself in affording me every 
opportunity for a careful reexamination of their valuable collection. I wish also to offer 
Ty thanks to Mr. Berkeley for his obliging assistance in determining the handwriting 
i several of the specimens. 
lt will be seen upon examination of the following particulars, that the Herbarium 
“mins a large number of authentic specimens, besides many which, without being 
absolutely authentic, are almost, if not quite as valuable, from having been identified by 
Fries, and published by him in the * Scleromycetes Suecize,’ or described in the * Systema 
| Mjcologieum” The other specimens have for the most part been named by Sir William 
Hooker, Mr. Berkeley, Dr. Greville, or Dr. Klotzsch, botanists whose opinions will be 
“pied with confidence by all mycologists. 
Inthe ‘Botanische Zeitung’ for 1864, p. 189, Fries has published some * Adnotata ” 
% some of the species described in my previous papers, which it will be useful to notice 
8 proceed, * 
I lare adopted the usual plan of placing the mark (!) against the names of those 
ws of which the Herbarium contains authentic specimens. 
A. COMPOSITE. 
TA Div. 1. CoRDYCEPS. 
| (Corprcrps) Guxxit, Berk. ! 
© (Connrcers) MILITARIS, L. Collected by Carmichael, and namen 
ia can be no doubt about this species. | 
| (Arme) PILEIFORMIS, Berk.! Mr. Berkeley co d Novæ Symb 
x een Cordyceps and Poronia. Fries (Summa Veg. Se. p. EIER Lu ” 29) 
| 3 P 113) speaks of it as a Poronia. Tulasne (Sel. Fung. saut | dein 
b it may form the type of a separate geñus, and notices some points 0 
lance : 
by Klotzsch. 
nsiders this plant intermediate 
to Xylaria pedunculata, Dicks. 
* Adnotata ad cel. Fr. Currey Dissertationem : Synopsis, &e. Á 
