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nearest affinity is with Penicillium, from which it differs in = 
very short fertile branches which rise erect at intervals fro 
prostrate vegetative hyphe. The ie cian are aie odaisealy 
more elongated than in Penicilliw 
Whether Scopulariopsis is an ‘entity or simply a phase in the 
life-cycle of some other fungus remains to be proved. 
THE ERLANGEAS OF § BOTHRIOCLINE. 
By Spencer tE M. Moors, B.Sce., F.L.S. 
WE first hear of Bothriocline in the early meee? of the 
bygone century, when the genus so named was esta by 
Professor Oliver upon ie remarkable plant he called Dotbescolins 
Schimpert (Ic. Pl. hg tab. 1133). Shortly afterwards (in Fl. Trop. 
a il. p. 266) th e conception of the species was enlarged by 
including in it two supposed varieties, var. tomentosa and var. 
onatpet: ga “toe genus remained thus monotypic until in 1894 
n (Kew Bull. 1894, p. 389) raised the last-named 
aca to specific rank as B. longipes, at the same time describing 
a third species (B. axa). This latter has many of its leaves alter- 
nate; and since one of the chief characteristics 3 nae age ah is 
the opposition or ternation of its leaves, Dr. H ann (Engler, 
fr. C. p. 402) was naturally led ¢ ip egy that 
characteristic as a sine qua non. Moreover certain plants having 
urious achenes and caducous pappus of bce raid = 
because of their general facies and alternate leaves hitherto in- 
cl rnonia, were logically transferred by | age to Bothrio. 
cline, which thus received some accession to num 
matters stood, a species being added here and oan until i in 11902 
I endeavoured to show that no sufficient reason remained to 
justify the separation of Shean from the older Erlangea; and, 
inasmuch as Dr. Hoffmann has accepted this view, the matter 
may be considered as settled. 
ecent study of the British Museum material has convinced me 
not only that the published varieties of B. Schimperi, but that 
three other forms provisionally referred to it differ so much apie: 
. Hiern’s 
Welw. Pl. pt. ili. p. ~ 515) has added as further varieties to B. 
Schimperi two Angola plants which, although the foliage is much 
alike in all three, seem to me widely different from the e type in 
inflorescence and ¢ apitula. In their promotion to specific rank 
the two varieties ss mentioned are joined by the var. tomentosa, 
and when to these one adds a plant from Mt. aWeniee another 
Be si East eftaioe a third from Mt. Milanji, the twe 
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