FUNGI. 
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On account of the peculiar structure of the excipulum, and the 
somewhat cartilaginous consistency of the species here called 
Otidea neglecta , Boudier has made this species the type of a new 
genus, Wynnella, but for the following reasons I do not think 
it advisable to adopt this idea. In the British species of Otidea , 
Pers., the leading feature of which is the oblique, more or less 
hare’s -ear shaped ascophore, we find that the following species 
have the excipulum composed of densely interwoven, hyaline 
hyphae which become abruptly converted, close to the outside, 
into a more or less coloured cortex, consisting of somewhat 
parallel, septate hyphae, which sometimes adhere laterally and 
form an approach to a parenchymatous tissue ; the external cells 
are arranged in irregular groups, thus producing the scurfy or 
pulverulent outer surface ; Otidea neglecta , 0. leporina , 0. 
apophysata , 0. pldebophora , O. pleurota. A second type of 
structure is illustrated by 0. auricula and 0. micropus } and con- 
sists of the excipulum being entirely parenchymatous, the cells 
very large and irregularly polygonal ; cortex as in the previous 
type. Finally, 0. onotica exhibits a type of structure exactly 
intermediate between the two previously described; the nypo- 
thecium and the broad cortical layer are truly parenchymatous, 
whilst a central zone consists of densely interwoven, hyaline 
hyphae. 
EXOTIC FUNGI 
By G. Massee. 
Cintractia exiocauli, Mass. 
Developing in the ovary ; at first compact, finally becoming 
dusted over the entire inflorescence ; spores remaining in 
irregular groups of variable size for some time, at length free, 
irregularly angular from lateral pressure, finally globosely 
angular (12-16 p diam.), epispore pale brown, smooth, about 2 p 
thick. 
Parasitic in the ovary of Eriocaulon fenestratum. Boger, 
Central Madagascar. (Baron.) 
A very distinct species, brought to my notice by Sir Joseph 
Hooker, who detected it during his investigation of the genus 
Eriocaulon for the “ Flora of India.” 
Chaetostroma sacchari, Mass. 
Gregarious ; forming circular or slightly elongated jet-black 
minutely velvety patches up to 2 mm. diameter ; sterile byphm, 
erect, conico-subulate, septate, rigid, straight, dark brown and 
almost opaque, 80-150x7-12 p; conidia globose or somewhat 
angularly globose, smooth, continuous, dark brown, becoming 
almost opaque at maturity, 10-12 p diam. ; conidiophores cylin- 
drical, simple, aseptate, hyaline, 15-20x3 p. 
On fading leaves of sugar-cane. 
