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This paper is a continuation of others, which have appeared in the 12th, 18th, 19th, and 21st vols, of the first series, and in the 2nd vol. of the 2nd series of the Eeports of the Belgian Aca- demy. It describes (besides some Mosses and Lichens from Lux- embourg and Hainault), a number of Pyrenomycetes, including a new species of Cordyceps, eleven new species of Sphseria, two new species of Pestalozzia, two new species of Macroplodia ; two new species of Staurosphseria ; and two new species of Phoma. Some observations on the nature of ergot will be found at p. 80.
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■ Notice sur le genre Hapalidium, par MM. Crouan freres,
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The wish (say the authors) to elucidate the characters of the genus Hapalidium, of which the fructification has hitherto been unknown, has induced us to study it ; and we are happy to be able to rectify the characters of the genus, and to make known the two kinds of fructification, as well as to publish three new species.
Genus Hapalidium Kutz. — Phyc. gen. p. 385. Sp. Alg. p. 698. Crouan M. S. char, reform.
Frond calcareous, formed of capillary dichotomous articulate filaments, or of little lobes or flabelliform disks, fixed horizontally, and adherent by all their parts ; stratum simple, formed of cel- lules, arranged in lines radiating towards the periphery, square or rectangular, furnished in the centre with a rosy nucleus, and sur- rounded by a cretaceous border, forming a net- work. Ceramidia not opaque, of two sorts, the one sort enclosing, in the lower part, a mass of elliptical or pyriform spha?rospores, straight, divided
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