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CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY OF A FLORIDA LOG. 
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mersed in the mycelium ; and in the second, siiperhcial and thickly scat¬ 
tered, globose, 180—200 /> in diameter, at first orange-yellow, then black, 
sui rounded with a circle of simple hyaline, straight, rather rigid, acicu- 
lar appendages, 140—150 x 5—10 /^, attenuated towards the apex, subob- 
tuse, or imcinate-cprved, and finally deciduous. Texture of the perithe- 
cia membranaceo-coriaceous, dark and opaque. Asci elliptical-ovate, 
90—100 X 30—35 /^, obtusely rounded above, abruptly contracted below 
into a thick, short pedicel, 2-spored, without paraphyses; sporidia hya¬ 
line, elliptical, 30—32 x 18—20 rounded at the ends, granulose. 
The description here quoted does not give the number of the append¬ 
ages nor of the asci. Having received from Spegazzini specimens of the 
fungus on leaves of Celtis Tala. I have carefully examined them, and 
compared them with the specimens of Uncimda polychceta, B. & 0., in 
Kav. Fungi, Car. IV, Xo. 68, which is certainly the same thing. I find 
in both the specimens mentioned the number of appendages on several 
perithecia examined to be certainly 250, by actual count, and probably 
more, as in places they were matted together so that it was difficult to 
count them accurately. They are thickest in the middle, and attennated 
towards each end, the lower half being distinctly roughened and the tips 
incurved with a single coil. The asci are about forty in number and, ac¬ 
cording to my measurement, about 75—80 x 25—30 /^-, each containing two 
. sporidia, 25—30 x 15—18 y. The statement in Grevillea, copied into the 
Sylloge, that the number of appendages is about 28, is evidently a typo¬ 
graphical mistake for 228. The length of the appendages is also kssthan 
the diameter of the perithecia. There is certainly no reason that I can 
see tor making of this fungus a new genus separate from Uncinula. 
J. B. E. 
CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY OF A FLORIDA 
LOG.-PAPER 4. 
BY W. vr. CALKINS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
In the depths of the hummock, where I had often wandered in quest 
of Xature’s wonders, I came suddenly upon a fallen giant, — a decayed 
Qiiercus. [laving learned by experience that the “ unexpected happens,” 
and sometimes most happily, too, I determined to ” size up ” the botan¬ 
ical riches here before me. 1 was not disappointed, as the results show. 
Beginning with lichens, here were in beautiful fruit Cladonia fimbriata, 
C. pulchella, Lecanora punicea., Cladonia ranyiferina, Thelotrema, glauces- 
ce7(S, T. Domingensis. The fungi were rich and abundant. Polyporus 
gilvus, Fr.. and also what has passed for Polyporus scruposus., Fr., and 
P. ferruginosis, Fr., but the two latter, having been carefully examined 
by Mr. Ellis, must be included in the synonomy of the first. Polyporus 
licnoides., Mont., fine but scarce. P. arcularius^ Fr., growing in the 
rotton bark, llypochnus rubrocinctus, Ehrb., Hypoxylon tinctor. Berk., 
Stereum complicatum, Fr., and to close the list, a beautiful Eutypa. not 
