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of these small bodies ought to be modified, the researches of which 
they have been the object remain none the less admirable ; they 
are recorded in a magnificent work in which the facts, without any 
theories, are exposed with an abundance and exactitude of detail 
absolutely marvellous. It assures to its author one of the most 
glorious places in the history of science: Polymorphism is in fact 
there established upon such solid bases that it is impossible for 
any question about it to arise hereafter ; one of the more happy 
consequences is the simplification of a branch of science, the 
complete study of which was impracticable, and, so to say, impos- 
sible without it. 
V. — Summary Eeview of the Group of Ascomycetes. 
This final chapter concluding the memoir, is concerned chiefly 
with a summary of the points bearing on the subject of spermatia 
and conidia contained in Tulasne’s “ Carpologia.” It was scarcely 
necessary to translate this portion, as it adds nothing to the views 
proposed in the previous chapters. 
ON GEASTER ORIENTALIS, nov. spec. 
By Professor Hazslinszky. 
At the meeting of the Hungarian Scientific Academy of 3rd of 
December, 1877, I published a supplement to my former works 
about Myxogasteres and Hypodermia, as well as about some new 
Trichogasteres of Hungary. The most remarkable of these forms 
are Battarea Stevinii^ Libosch., from the environs of Eger, in the 
county of Heves — a Hungarian specimen — and two Geasters of 
Transylvania. My works on Geaster chiefly being based upon the 
communications made in “ Grevillea,” I therefore submit these new 
forms to the critical examination of the savant. The minute form 
of G. limhatus — being of the size of a pea only — with its firmly 
sitting internal peridium, scarcely deserves particular notice as a 
miniature form. 
The two Geasters of Transylvania, however, are more remark- 
able. They are from the environs of Kolosvar — one, G. Rahen- 
horstii, Kunze ; the other, G. orientalis — the former being a short- 
pedicellate, or a pedicellate G. limhatus, with a multifid parch- 
ment-like outer peridium ; the latter, a middle form between G. 
Bryantii and G. limhatus. 
G. orientalis, noi\ spec. — Interior peridium almost globular, dark 
brown, its deeply furrowed conical beak also dark brown, with a 
bitubular peduncle. The exterior tube bursts around like G. 
Bryantii — “ Grevillea,” plate xii. — after which the interior tube 
extends until its diameter attains the size of the interior peridium. 
It is constant yellowish white, pulverate. The larger portion of 
