PROCEEDINGS OP SOCIETIES. 
Dublin Miceoscopical Club. 
24dTi April y 1879. 
Blodgettia. — Dr. E. Perceval Wright exhibited some freshly- 
mounted specimens of Blodgettia confervoides of Harvey, which 
he had prepared from specimens recently collected at Key West 
by Mr. Farlow,and sent to him preserved in alcohol. These very 
clearly showed that strings of spores referred to by Harvey were 
parts of a parasitic plant living in the cells of GladopJiora 
ccespitosa. This parasite would seem to consist of a series of 
delicate threadlike hyphse, with here and there enlargements. 
For this Fuugoid form Dr. Wright would retain the generic 
term Blodgettia, of course with a new diagnosis, and he would 
venture to call the species after Dr. Bornet. In addition Dr. 
Wright read a letter received that very morning from Dr. 
Bornet. Alluding to the memorandum about this plant in the 
Club Minutes for March 23rd, 1876, Dr. Bornet wished to 
correct the statement referred to there as having been made by 
him, on the authority of Mr. Farlow, to the effect that Blod- 
gettia was an unicellular form of parasite. It was most obviously 
nothing of the sort, but a fungus with branching hypba3. 
Goscinodiscus Soly WaMich, from Sea of Javay exhibited. — Bev. 
E. 0‘Meara exhibited specimens of the rare diatomaceous form 
Goscinodiscus Soly Wallich. These were found on slides from 
material gathered in the 8ea of .lava and mounted by Professor 
T. P. Cleve, of Upsala. The form is not enumerated by Pro- 
fessor Cleve among the many new and interesting species 
discovered by him in gatherings from the Sea of Java. 
Anthelm Turneriy Dumortier, from Kenty exhibited. — Dr. Moore 
showed an example in fruit of the very rare British species 
Anthelia Turneriy Dumortier — Jungermannia Turneriy Hook., 
Br. Jung This was first found near Bantry by the late Miss 
Hutchins in 1811. Dr, Taylor remarks in Flor. Hib. (1836), 
“ This plant has never been seen growing but by its discoverer.” 
Dr. Mo(>re stated he had often searched for it when botauising 
in the South of Ireland, but never succeeded in finding it. It 
has, hovever, been found in France, according to Dumortier in 
‘Hepat Europ.’ (1874). The specimen now shown came from 
