408 Scientific Intelligence . 
Among the forty plants published, we find no less than twenty- 
three genera. Of Fungi ; Sclerotium, Agaricus, Isaria, iEci- 
dium, Peziza, Sphaeria, Uredo, Fusarium, Cryptosphaeria, Poly- 
porus, Puccinia, Amanita, Naemaspora, Erineum, Hysterium, 
Cylindrosporium, Aspergillus, Cyathus, Helvella, Clavaria, and 
Lycogola. Of Algoe ; Echinella and Gloionema. Cryptospha- 
ria and Cylindrosporium are new genera instituted by Mr Gre~ 
ville ; the former to include a group of plants belonging to the 
old genus Spharia ; and the latter to receive a very curious, new 
and minute plant, that is parasitic on the living leaves of the com- 
mon cabbage. The characters are, — Cryptosphaeria ; Receptacu- 
cum 0, sphaerulae duriusculae, sparsas vel aggregates, sub epider- 
mide insidentes, ore nunc depresso nunc elongato, intus massa 
gelatinosa sporulifera instructs?. Cylindrosporium ; Massas mi- 
nutissima? in foliis vivis parasiticae, non rupta epidermide. Spo- 
ridia cylindrica, truncata, non septata, nuda, libera, coacervata. 
Besides these new genera, there are the following new species. 
Isaria microscopica ; a minute species parasitic on Trichia cla- 
vata. JEcidium Thalictri ; found on the Highland mountains, 
growing on Thalictrum alpinum. Peziza ochracea. P. plum- 
bea. Agaricus turgidus ; named from its remarkably hollow 
and turgid stem. Amanita nivalis ; a beautiful species, found 
on the summits of the highest Grampians. Naemaspora Rosa- 
rum. Hysterium Juniperi ; parasitic on the dead leaves of the 
common juniper. Puccinia Fdbce ; found intermixed with Uredo 
Faboe , on the leaves of the common field bean. Gloionema api- 
culata , and Echinella circularise two interesting and curious 
plants of the order Algae. Aspergillus penicellatus. Spharia 
verrucosa ; belonging to the division A stoma, and parasitic on 
the pileus of Polyporus abietinus. The last new species is Ly- 
cogola minuta. 
The colouring of the plates, on which so much depends in a 
work of this nature, does credit to the well known abilities of Mr 
Graves. 
ZOOLOGY. 
38. Notice regarding Skulls found in Germany , and De- 
scription of the Head of a Mummy . — There has been discover- 
ed, in the neighbourhood of Halbcrstadt, in Saxony, a great 
