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188 red colour, and divided into even bifurcate radii, yellow at their extremities. The whole urface of this fungus is mooth.

This new genus ought to be placed next in order to the genus phallus of Linnæus.

Fig. 1. The fungus.

Fig. 2. A tranvere ection of the volva, hewing its interior parts.

Fig. 3. A longitudinal ection of the tipes.

The declivities of the mountains ituated to the eatward, form a pleaant valley, from whence the waters, collected there by the union of a great number of mall treams, are dicharged into the bay. By wahing the tems of the large trees which cover the country, through which it flows, the water acquires a brownih tinge. The cloenes of the hrubs, and the marhes which occupy the low grounds of this valley render it very difficult of acces. We were, however, reolved to attempt it at the rik of ticking fat in the mud; but were often topped in our progres, by a new pecies of the cleria, to which I gave the name of cleria grandis, as it frequently grows to the height of twelve feet. Its leaves are as harp at the edges as a piece of glas; its berries are oval and of a reddih colour, and contain a ort of almond, which