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Generally, as applied to all the Plates, we should like to 
discover the value of a series of symmetrically arranged little 
bodies, which may be supposed to represent spores, but which, if 
drawn to any scale at all, the scale is not revealed, and very 
seldom is any intimation given of their dimensions. 
It is much to be regretted that our author did not from the 
first obtain the assistance of a good practical man in the art of 
delineation, to have advised with him, and assisted him in his 
work. There is no doubt that a large amount of labour and 
experience has not been turned to the best account, and that a 
little advice might have converted a very mediocre into a very 
excellent work. It requires but a very little elementary know- 
ledge of illustrative art to recognize the failings in these Plates, 
and at the same time to marvel that the little artistic help was 
not obtained which would have spared the credit of the author, 
and augmented the sale of his work, which, in all conscience, is 
expensive enough for a much better book. 
SYNOPSIS PYRENOMYCETUM. 
( Continued from p. 52.) 
Fam. 13. ENDOXYLEiE (Immerse, Fr .). Perithecia im- 
mersa, latentia, simplicia, collo brevi erumpente. 
Gen. 1. ENDOXYLA, FcM. Stroma obsoletum ligneum, spori- 
dia allantoidea, dilute fusca. 
3918. parallela, Fr. ... 672 3920. macrostoma, FcM. 674 
3919. operculata, A. 8f S. 673 3921. populi, Rom. ... 6284 
Gen. 2. XYLOSFH^RIA, CooJce Grev . vii., 86. Perithecia in- 
nata, immersa, lignicola. Sporidia subelliptica, continua, vel 
septata, fusca. 
* Anthostoma. Sporidia continua, fusca. 
3922. melanotes, B. Br. 1097 
= Schmidtii , Nke. 
var. longiascum, Berl. 
3923. endoxyloides, Mont. 7436 
3924. tomentosum, Flnr. 1098 
3925. ferrugineum, Nke. 1099 
3926. venetum, Sacc. ... 1100 
3927. urophorum, >8. <$•. S. 1101 
3928. areolatum, Nke. ... 1103 
3929. inquinans, Nke. ... 1106 
3930. italicum, S. &. S... 1107 
3931. intermedium, Nke. 1 L08 
3932. polynesia, B. $ G. 1110 
3933. chronos tomum, Sp. 6329 
3934. carbonescens, Nke. 1111 
3935. anceps. S. R. ... 1115 
3936. tuberculosa, Schwz. 4368 
3937. defossum, D.R.&.M. 1117 
3938. cubiculare, Fr. ... 1118 
3939. ostropoides, Rehm. 1131 
3940. syciospermum, B.R. 
& M 1119 
3941. sustentum, Plow. 1120 
3942. gigaspora, Gke.^Hk.65Sl 
