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FUNGI. 
Pseudographis depressum, B. $ C. 
Black, scattered to crowded; perithecia elliptical, flattened 
above, rugulose or irregularly striate, kymenium covering the 
entire upper surface ; spores broadly cylindrico-clavate, with a very 
short, slender, oblique pedicel ; spores irregularly bi-seriate, 7-11 
septate (generally 9), not constricted at the septa, the fourth or 
fifth cell from the base usually swollen, straight or curved, colour- 
less, 35 x 42 x 6 p ; paraphyses numerous, filiform, equal, or 
very slightly incrassated upwards, colourless. 
Hysterium depressum , Berk, and Curt., Grev., Yol. iv., p. 10; 
Sacc. Syll., Yol. ii., No. 5660. 
On dry exposed wood. Yirginian Mountains. 
Berkeley says, “ Disc extremely narrow,” but I find no trace of 
a slit, the naked hymenium covering the entire surface, neither is 
there a distinct border. 
Gloniella drynariae, B. fy Br. 
Gregarious, covering the entire under-surface of the frond ; 
perithecia immersed, causing no discoloration, the slightly raised 
and ruptured cuticle resembling white lips, straight, curved, or 
rarely branched, 1-2 mm. long; asci cylindrical, shortly stipitate ; 
spores obliquely uniseriate, cylindric-oblong, ends very obtuse, 
3-septate, not at all constricted at the septa, colourless, 14-16 x 
6 p ; paraphyses filiform, slightly exceeding the asci in length, 
numerous. 
hysterium drynarice , B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Yol. xiv., p. 
133 ; Sacc. Syll., Vol. ii, No. 5648. 
On fronds of Drynaria quercifolia. Tropical Forests, Ceylon. 
Yerv lichenoid in appearance, covering the whole under surface 
of the frond, accompanied by multitudes of pallid, minute perithecia 
•filled with oblong spores *0002in. long ( B . Br.). 
There is no evidence of genetic affinity between the minute 
perithecia and the Hysterium. 
Ostxopa albo-cincta, B. # C. 
Densely gregarious ; conical or shortly cylindrical ; disc black, 
plane, with a short, very narrow slit; lips smooth ; sides densely 
clothed with white powder ; asci sub-cylindrical, shortly stipitate, 
8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, somewhat fusiform, straight 
or slightly curved, 1-septate, very slightly constricted at the 
septum, dingy olive-brown ; 30 X 6-7 p ; paraphyses numerous, 
linear, not incrassated upwards. 
Ostropa albo-cincta , Berk. & Curtis, Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. x., 
p. 372; Sacc. Syll., Yol. ii., No. 5856. 
On dead bark. Cuba. 
Commencing as densely crowded white knobs, which expand at 
the apex and form a broadly elliptical black disc, furnished with a 
short, very narrow slit. 
