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quished this practice, for it is possible to point to even recent cases 
in which the old illogical distinction between the Torulacei and the 
ed. 
In the final abolition of this distinction we have the key-note of 
Prof. Saccardo’s plan. Taking the Hyphomycetes in this widened 
i as h 
n 
universally approved plan, according to the septation of the conidia. 
: may not 
cryptogamists, without any compensating advantages. 
The first family, Mucedinee, includes those species that have the 
hyphx distinct, ¢. ¢., not densely fasciculate, and of a light or 
of previous writers; yet it is no means certain that it 1s one 
which will stand the test of future experience. For though mm 
certain cases the distinction is clearly natural, yet in others it 
separates too far species which are closely allied. ; 
In the third family, Stilbee, are placed those species of which 
: 7 ¢ i he fourth, 
Tuberculariee, those typified by Fusarium and Tubercularia. Hach 
. 
ss enumerate will afterwards prove not to be distinct from 
others. Helminthosporium capitulatum, e.g., is probably only Acro- 
inst 
hecatis Bace. (p. 80), which i i he author has 
himself aa ) is the same species that the au 
un 
— are collected together, not because the author believes 
oe pies fe @ genus distinct from Penicillium, but, ‘ faciliorts 
of th eer, hemanae it is impossible as yet to refer every specie 
oF ormer to its proper place in the latter. 
W. B. Grove, 
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