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SOME EXOTIC FUNGI. 
Cylindxospoxium nanum, Cooke. 
Hypophyllum. Maculis angulatis, nervulis limitatis, canes- 
centibus, acervalis minutis, albidis, conidiis, cylindraceis, rectis, 
hyalinis, denique emergenti- superficialibus (8-10x1 /a). 
On living leaves of Juglans. New Zealand (Kirk 254). 
Allied to C. microspermum , Speg. 
Ovulaxia maloxum. Cooke. 
Hypophylla. Maculis effusis, confluentibus, albidis, subfari- 
nosis, hyphis brevibus, conidiis ellipticis, hyalinis (10-12 X 
4-5 /*)•.". 
On living leaves, petioles, &c., principally young shoots of 
apple. New Zealand (Kirk 271, 272). 
Sphsexella Weinmanniae, Cooke. 
Epiphylla. Peritheciis gregariis, subglobosis, atris, semi- 
immersis, punctiformibus, pertusis. Ascis clavatis. Sporidiis 
lanceolatis, uniseptatis ('OIS-'OIS x ‘004 mm.) hyalino-luteolis. 
On dead leaves of Weinmannia racemosa. New Zealand 
(Colenso 215). 
Astexina xeptans, _B. Sf C. 
Stylospores ; cylindrical, slightly curved, almost linear (10 X 
1 /a), hyaline. 
This condition would fall into the Leptostromacece perhaps as a 
species of Leptothyrium rather than Melasmia , to either of which 
it is allied. 
Common on various coriaceous leaves, such as Panax , Knightia , 
&c. New Zealand (Colenso). 
SACCANDO, SYLLOGE FUNGORUM, YOL. IV. 
The fourth volume of Professor Saccardo’s book has just, 
come to hand, including the Hyphomycetes. Undoubtedly this 
was the most critical and difficult of any of the sections with 
which our author has been called upon to deal, and we venture 
to think that, on the whole, he has achieved as much success as 
he could have hoped for. Only by practical test of experience 
will its real value be determined. 
This volume enumerates 3,583 species, which are classed 
under four families — 1, Mucedinece , or the white moulds ; 2, 
Dematiece , the black moulds ; 3, Stilbew, of which the old genus 
Stilbum is the type ; and, 4, Tuber culariece, including such ver- 
ruciform genera as Tubercularia. This arrangement, so far, 
indicates no new departure, and, we think, will commend itself 
as the best course which could have been adopted. 
It would be manifestly unjust to venture any observations of 
a critical nature upon a work which has been before ns but 
