334 THAXTER. 



GLAZIELLA Berk. 



Berkeley (1879-80), p. 31, No. 8526. 

 Endogonella von Hohnel (1913), p. 294. 



Type Species 



Glaziella vesiculosa Berk. 



(Figs. 88-94.) 



Berkeley (1879-80), p. 31. 



Xylaria aurantiaca Berkeley & Curtis (1868), p. 382, d. 

 Glaziella aurantiaca Cooke (1883), p. 83: Lloyd (1919), p. 30, fig. 1460. 

 Hypomyces alboluteus Ellis & Everhart (1893), p. 262 and 285. 

 Endogonella borneensis von Hohnel (1913), p. 41, figs. 4-5. 



Owing to its large size and conspicuous orange yellow color, this 

 species has been repeatedly observed in the American tropics, but the 

 early misinterpretation of its characters has led to much confusion 

 as to its probable position. It was first collected in Brazil by Glaziou, 

 No. 8526, this type, of which through the courtesy of Miss Wakefield 

 I have been able to examine a portion, being still in the Kew Her- 

 barium. Later, material collected by Wright in Cuba, a portion of 

 which has been examined in the Curtis Herbarium at Harvard, was 

 redescribed as Xylaria aurantiaca by Berkeley and Curtis, it being 

 assumed in both instances that it was an immature ascomycete, and 

 that its peculiarly developed spores were young perithecia. In a 

 similar fashion a gathering from Jamaica, communicated by Cockerell 

 was subsequently described by Ellis as a new but sterile Hypomyces, 

 which he named H. alboluteus E. & E. Still more recently it has again 

 been described under a new generic name by von Hohnel, as Endg- 

 gonella borneensis n. g. et n. sp., this being the first record of its 

 occurrence in the Eastern Hemisphere. 



This plant occurs in the form of a bladder-like, variably lobed, or 

 even convolute, soon unattached sporocarp, Figure 88, 2 to 4 cm. long 

 by 2 to 3 cm. broad and 1.5 to 3 cm. thick, more or less, when dry; 

 much larger when fresh. The tough gelatinous wall 700-900 ix 

 thick, is perforate below, the perforation entering a central cavity 

 which is quite empty. On drying it becomes hard and brittle and 

 loses much of its color, fading and becoming brownish with age, and 

 exposure. The outer surface is more even, with a slight bloom, the 

 inner pale yellowish and somewhat uneven. A section of the wall cut 



