258 ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF PLANTS FROM KIUKIANG. 
his opinion, he pronounced it to be “a very interesting discovery,” 
and named it as above. Probably other species of the genus be yet 
ated. 
In the few specimens gathered, for (not considering it distinct from 
Xylographa parallela, as already intimated) I only carried off a 
single portion of the substratum, the spores are but rarely seen well 
developed, in consequence of most of the apothecia, which are very 
numerous, being too old. : : 
Hab—On decorticated trunks of Pyrus -Aucuparia in moist 
shady places of Craig Calliach, Braedalbane (Crombie, August, 
1874), 
EXPLANATION or Tas, 150. 
Fig. 1, Ptychographa sxylographoides, Nyl., specimens in situ from Braedal- 
bane, natural size; 2, Apothecia (in a dry state) magnified 25‘diameters; 3, Thin 
transverse section of apothecium immersed in water, magnified 30 diameters; 
4, A fragment of section of apothecium, magnified about 350 diameters ; 5, The 
same treated with a solution of iodine; 6, Free spores; and 7, Gonidia, 
0 diameters. 
ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF PLANTS FROM KIUKIANG. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., ete. 
Whilst M. Maximowicz’s excellent and very complete “ Index 
it ? 
Flore Japonice ” contains a considerable number of F 
pplied by Sir 
Hooker to Mr, Swinhoe, to whom I am obliged for a printed copy 5 : 
p am unable to late Prof. Mique!’s 
: ormosa 
collected by Ol 
