SPH AEROCOCCACEAE-CYATHEACEAE 41 
RHODOPHYCEAE 
SPHAEROCOCCACEAE 
GRACILARIA Greville 
Fucus gulaman Blanco FI. Filp. (1837) 839 (sp. nov.) =Fucus edulis Blanco 
op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 580; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 260, non Linn. =GRACILARIA 
Sp. 
This alga is commonly used as food in Manila and is brought 
unto the markets during the rainy season by fishermen. It is 
a Gracilaria, but its position within the genus has not yet been 
determined, as it has not been found in fruit. Blanco probably 
included in his conception of the species Gracilaria confervoides 
Grev. 
FUNGI 
HYMENOMYCETACEAE 
MARASMIUS Fries 
Conferva setosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 844 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 583; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 264=MARASMIUS sp. 
-Blanco’s description applies unmistakably to the characteristic 
horse-hair blight, Marasmius. It was observed by him attached 
to the leaves of trees on Mount Arayat, Pampanga Province, 
Luzon, and he states that he at first thought the specimens 
were horse hairs. 
PYRENOMYCETEAE 
XYLARIA Hill 
Sclerotium subterraneum Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 845 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 
(1845) 584; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 266—=XYLARIA NIGRIPES (KI.) Sacc. 
Blanco’s description applies unmistakably to the branched 
conidial form of Xylaria that can be readily cultivated from 
the comb of white ant’s nests, and which is apparently the 
conidial form of Xylaria nigripes Sacc. Blanco’s material was 
secured from the nest of the anay, i. e., the white ant. 
PTERIDOPHYTA 
CYATHEACEAE 
CYATHEA Smith 
Trichopteris falcata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 111 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill 
& Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 91—=CYATHEA IN- 
TEGRA J. Sm. 
Llanos’s species does not appear in Christensen’s Index Fil- 
icum. The description is short and rather vague, but among 
all the tree ferns known from the Philippines applies best to 
Cyathea integra J. Sm., the type of which was from Luzon; 
Llanos’s specimens were from the town of Calauan, Laguna 
