SOUTH AFRICAN FUNGI. 
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Meliola polytricha, Kalch. Che. in GrevUleayui., p. 72. 
On living leaves of Osyris compressa. No. 1256. 
And Cunonia capensis. No. 1262. 
Meliola ganglifera, Kalch. 
Hypophylla, maculis fuligineis orbicularibus efformans. Con- 
ceptaculis globosis, subverrucosis, atris (•15-*2 mm.). Appen- 
diculis erectis, subulatis, simplicibus. Mycelio ramoso, repente, 
processibus subglobosis stipitatis, conico-verrucosis, ornato. 
On living leaves of Curtisia faginea. No. 1349. 
The ganglia-like processes of the mycelium are peculiar. They 
are nearly globose, shortly stipitate bodies, clad with obtuse conical 
warts. Asci and sporidia not seen, 
Meliola inermis, Kalch. Che. 
Amphigena, atra. Peritheciis globosis, hinc illic congestis (‘2- 
•25 mm. diam.), mycelio ramoso, fusco, nidulantibus. Appendiculis 
nullis. Ascis clavatis. Sporidiis 2, ellipticis, quadriseptatis, con- 
strictis, fuscis (*055 X *015 mm.). 
On living leaves of Buddleia auriculata. No. 1251. 
This does not accord with Meliola quinquespora, Thumen, for it 
is not five spored ; nor with Meliola quinqueseptata^ Rehm. ; for 
the sporidia are not five septate ; and yet specimens from both 
authors under these names are the same thing. There is 
clearly an error somewhere, which we leave to those mycologists to 
correct. 
DR. A. MINKS ON THE MICROGONIDIA OF LICHENS. 
Dr. Minks has communicated to the “ Revue Mycologique ” a 
summary in the French language of the leading points in his new 
theory of the physiology and morphology of lichens. He is 
persuaded that a great number of students are ignorant of his 
researches because they are not familiar with the language in which 
they are written. In addition to this cause he thinks that many 
hold it to be dangerous to differ in opinion with certain eminent 
men who have accepted the earlier scientific views as finally and 
definitively settled. He regards the train of argument adopted to 
establish the Schwendenarian doctrine as humiliating to modern 
physiology as it is altogether based on false premises, and appeals 
to his recently published work and his article in the “ Flora ” of 
1878, and to the plates given them to establish beyond doubt the 
correctness of his new views. Space prevents our giving more than 
a brief epitome of his communication, for further information the 
reader must consult his recently published book “ Das Microgoni- 
dium.”* 
* Das Microgonidium. Ein Beitrag ziu* Keuntniss des wahren der 
Flechten, von Dr. Arthur Minks. Bale, 1879. 
