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On THYSANOTHECIUM, a new genus of Lichens, by C. MONTAGNE, D.M., and the REV. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. {With a Plate, TAB. X.) The remarkable production here characterised formed part of an extensive collection of Swan River Cryptogams sent to Sir W. J. Hooker by Mr. Drummond. The older individuals, though their affinity to the great division of Lichens is very evident, bear a very striking resemblance to Cantharellus undulatus, Fr. Unfortunately no sporidia have been detected ; the series of specimens is, however, too perfect to allow of the supposition that it is merely a strange form of some well known genus.
THYSANOTHECIUM,

Mont, and Berk.

Apothecia terminalia, libere enata, primitus orbicularia plana, margine sinuoso integro, demum flabellari-expansa, obliqua, maxima, lobata, lobis oblongis. Discus tandem iraraarginatus (excipulo nullo receptus) thallo subconcolor, pallidus, strato gonimo impositus. Asci imperfecta Thallus duplex ; Verrucae sparsee a quibus surgunt frondes verticales tereti-compressae, cartilagneo-corticatee, rimoso- plicatse solidae, intus filamentos.HAB. ad ligna adusta necnon ad terram nudam in regione Australasias, Swan River dicta. Thysanothecium Hookeri.Drumm. n. 69, 70. The genus has somewhat the habit of Ramalina, to which rt is analogous, in the position of the proligerous lamina and the nature of the thallus, but it is very different in the mode of evolution and the form of the apothecia. These are formed at an early period on the tips of the fronds, and they might then be taken for those of a Stereocaulon. They may be distinguished, however, by the absence of an excipulum. They lose gradually their orbicular form, and are developed unequally, so as at last to appear fixed to the thallus by a single point of their circumference, the remainder being
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divided into flabellate lobes. It is certainly an anomalous genus, like many others of its compatriots. The colour varies from a pale yellowish-green, or grey, to brown. The podetia in n. 70 do not exceed 2 lines in height, and the warts of the lower part of the thallus are smaller, while in n. 69 they are sometimes half an inch high. TAB. X.FIG. 1. Young, and/. 2. full grown plants, nat. size ; /. 3. young thallus and podetia ; /. 4. older ditto ; /. 5. vertical section of ditto ; /. 6. podetium ; /. 1. portion of apothecium ; /. 8. ditto, more advanced j f. 9. asci ;more or less magnified.

New

HEPATICLE

; by

THOMAS TAYLOR,

M.D.

Having been permitted by Sir William J. Hooker the agreeable privilege of examining the Hepaticee of his most extensive and valuable collection, and allowed the liberty of publishing the undescribed species, I propose, in the following papers, to give specific characters and short diagnostic descriptions of those that appear to me new. A few are added from my private Herbarium and from those ot other kind friends. 1.
GYMNOMITRION,

Nees.

1. G. atrocapillum, Hook. fil. etTayl.j caule tenuissimo, implexo, procumbente, subramoso, flexuoso ; foliis distantibus, erectis, adpressis, concavis, ovato-quadratis, eroso-enaarginatis, integerrimis ; perichsetialibus majoribus imbricatis in capitulum congestis. HAB. On clay, at an elevation of 600 feet, Foul Haven, Kerguelen's Land, May, 1840, Dr. Joseph D. Hooker. Patches loose, 1-2 inches wide. Stems black, slender as horse-hair, the sterile nodulose with distant concave aapressed leaves, whose emarginate summits are browner than the remaining parts; pericheetial stems pale olive-brown,

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