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care, angustatum, Fraxini, quercinum, conigenum, and G raminum
; and, in addition to these, we have, on the authority
of Mr G r a y , who names neither place nor person, mytilinum,
crispum, arundinaceum and xylomoides, all, except the first,
under the generic name of Hypoderma.
In a highly interesting but brief Synopsis of the Fungi of
Carolina, by S c h w e i n i z , and edited hy my friend Professor
SCHWAEGRICHEN, in the 1st volume of the Leipzig Nat.
Hist. Society, some curious new plants are added to the genus.
The Americans have been already found to possess 22 species,
including the new ones, which are H. Smilacis, on Smilax ro-
tundifolia; Juglandis, on Juglans compressa; Castanece, on
Castanea vesca; fexuosum, on the young branches of plants
in the genera P runus and Quercus; tortile, on the hark of
Juniperus Virginiana; rufescens, on the divided part of
felled trees ; plantarum, on dead Monotropce.
In the 8th volume of the Fdinburgh Philosophical Journal,
I proposed to name a most curious new genus of Gastromyci,
S cHW E iN iT Z iA , after the above mentioned excellent botanist.
I have since ascertained, that a genus of phenogamous plants
has been recently dedicated to him hy Mr F l l i o t t . I wish,
therefore, to substitute the name of Cauloglossum: the character
is Peridium stipitatum ad basin dehiscens. Stipes
percurrens. The species are C. pistillare and C. carcinomale,
both imperfectly described by P e r s o o n , in his Synopsis Fun-
gonnn, under Scleroderma.
Fig. 1. Plants, nat. size, on Pinus sylvestris. Fig. 2. Portion o f leaf, miih
plants. Fig. 3. A single plant. Fig. 4. Sporuliferous ceUs, with sportdes.
— All except Fig. 1. more or less magnified.