FUNGOID GALL, FROM PARA. 2\)1 



Ss ïn^very early stages of the pistil of Glaucium, I observe precisely the 

 same structure as in Eschscholtzia ; and we hâve only to suppose the 

 stigmatic lobes of the latter to be contractée! and confluent, and a 

 pistil like that of the former is the resuit. Dr. Lindley has noticed 

 that Chelidonium and Hypecoum exhibit a tendency to extend the apex 

 of the peduncle ; and I observe that in Glaucium such a tendency 

 strikingiy resembles what takes place in JEschsckoltzia, though it is 

 not carried to the same extent. In Glaucium, again, the sepals detach 

 themselves as readily round the base as in EschscJwUzia ; and I hâve 

 found a plant of the latter, where the sepals constantly became separated 

 at their margins, whilst one of them remained attached by the base to 

 the pedicel. In this case the more persistent sepal had a tendency to 

 assume a foliaceous character with marginal incisions. The con- 

 ditions presented by the stigmata of thèse bi-carpellary gênera require 

 only slight modifications to assume the conditions presented by the 

 stigmata of multicarpellary gênera of the same order. 



On a fungoid &AiAj,from Para; by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., 



F.L.S. 

 (Tab. X. B.) 

 Some years since a notice was published in the Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society, (vol. xviii. p. 575., Tab. 39. A.), respecting a Gall 

 produced on the leaf of some Ochnad from South America, and com- 

 municated by Mr. Macleay. Two or three analogous productions hâve 

 since that period been submitted to me from their striking resemblance 

 to Eungi ; but none so remarkable as the subject of the présent note, 

 which was gathered in Para, by Capt. Sir Everard Home, R. N., in 

 1836. Like other analogous forms, it occurs indifferently on the upper 

 or under side of the leaf, bursting through the cuticle, and appearing 

 under the form of a stipitate cup a quarter of an inch long, and at first 

 furnished with a convex lid, which at length falls off, leaving the edge 

 of the cup perfectly even ; the whole resembling very closely a large 

 Craterium. The cup splits on very slight pressure longitudinally ; but 

 this is probably not the case when fresh. No information was commu- 

 nicated as to the nature of the insect by which it was produced ; indeed 

 it was supposed to be a parasitic fungus. There is a little black dise 



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