2 DR. F. E. BEDDARD ON 
individuals were five in number, of which four are figured in 
text-fig. 1; the fifth was an obviously incomplete individual. 
T shall commence the present communication to the Society with 
an account of 
$ The Asexual Forms. 
The series of examples which represent the asexual phase of 
this Urocystidium showed no budding such as I originally 
Text-figure 1. 
A. Completely developed asexual stage of Urocystidium. B. Incomplete individual 
belonging to asexual generation. OC, D, EH. Three younger individuals of the 
asexual generation which represent stages in the development of the asexual 
form A. 
described as the most salient and novel character in this genus. 
The specimens, however, which I am now about to describe, are 
not inconsistent with a development of this kind. That is to say, 
