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A SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 283.) 
4, Pmourarta (Vaill.) Linn.* 
Conceptacles globose, coriaceous in texture, re singly on 
short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, 4-celled , dehiscing at 
the tip into as many ‘valves as there are cells, each cell (Gora, 
A. Br.) furnished with a parietal placenta, from which arise 
Leaves filiform, without any lamina, circinate in oe fur- 
nished, like the creeping stem, with several vascular bundles 
Conceptacles 2-celled. 
acrosporangia 1 in each cell ‘ Sp. 1. 
Macrosporangia many in each cell . Sp. 2. 
Conceptacles re re 3-celled Sp. 3. 
Conceptacles 4 celled Sp. 4-6. 
. P. minvta Duties A. os ‘Beri ian. 18638, 435; Dexr. 
Se. A Alger. t. 88.— Rhizome and leaves much more slender than in 
P. globulifera, the latter we in. long. Pedicels ges a the 
conceptacles, which are not more th deflexed, 
lin. diam 
-celled, Meceospanad globose, not constricted, solitary i in the cells. 
Hab. South of ast Algeria, Sardinia, and Asia 4 
2. P. novm-zetanpim Kirk in Trans. New Zeal. Instit. ix. 547, 
t. 29. — Rhizome a phe more slender than in P. globulifera, 
the latter fewer and more distant, 14-2 in. long. ie as Hong 
as the ey ag ae attached to the centre of their 
ceptacles $4 in. diam., erect or eee 2-celled. Macapotes 
subglobose, not constristed, 10-12 to a cell. 
Hab. New Zealand; hills of ee oihats island, Kirk 832! 
Berggren 
ricana A. Br. in Berl. Monat. 1868, 485.— P. valdiviana 
hilippi. — Rhizome and leaves rather more slender than in P. 
globulifera, the latter 1-2 in. long. Pedicel short, arcuate. Oda 
ceptacle 2-4, usually 8-celled, 1-12th to 1-8th in ‘oa -» erect. 
Macrospores subglobose, not constricted, 10-15 toac 
ab. Arkansas, Nuttall! Near Santa Bar bevk: California, 
Mrs. Coop ivia, Chili, ying yi! 
ai Vaan 2 2 A n Berl. Monat. 1868, 435. 
Rhizome a leaves rather more lena than in P. globulifer a, the 
* See A. Braun in ‘Monatberichte der Konig]. Akadamie der Wissenschaften 
Berlin,’ Oct. 1863 (translated into French Ann. Se. Nat., Series v., vol. i., 
pe aos and Aug. 15, ‘1872. 
