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of the mycelium which produces the spheres ; but in reaUty 

 it is the mycelium of the Xylaria, and no connection between 

 the two has yet been proved. His description of the agaric 

 leaves no room for doubt that he had before him the common 

 Ceylon form, but he considered it a new species and named it 

 Pluteus rajap, the specific name being that by which it is 

 known in Malaya. Subsequently Hennings and Nyman 

 re-described Holtermann's agaric as Pholiota Janseana, and 

 later as Flammula Janseana, with full knowledge that it was 

 the same species, and also as Flammula filipendula, Pluteus 

 Treubianus, and Pluteus bogorie7isis, under the belief that the 

 specimens of these three were diiierent species. 



The agaric was afterwards recorded from Java by Patouil- 

 lard, under the name of Collybia radicata ; as he mentions that 

 a small sponge-like mass was attached to the base of the stalk 

 of his specimen, there can be no doubt in the matter, for the 

 sponge-like mass was surely part of the termite comb. 



In 1907 von Hdhnel examined termite nests in Java, and 

 confirmed the accounts already published in Ceylon. He 

 regarded the Xylaria, however, as two, not forms of the same 

 species ; and described another pjrenomycete, Neoskofitzia 

 tennitum, which he found on a termite comb which had been 

 dug up and left lying on the ground. 



I have recently received a specimen of the termite agaric, 

 per C. G. Lloyd, from the Straits Settlements, with the 

 information that it was found on a termite nest. 



Haviland described a number of termites from Malaya and 

 Africa as fungus growers, but he did not furnish any further 

 particulars with regard to the fungi in their nests. 



Karawaiew, in 1901, published in Russian an account of the 

 white spheres ^\hich he discovered on a termite comb at 

 Buitenzorg, Java {fide Wheeler). Wheeler reproduces a part 

 of one of his figures showing the conidial heads on the comb , 

 which is quite typical. 



South America. 



Little appears to be known with regard to the fungus flora 

 of the termite nests in South America. Hennings has described 

 an agaric, Pluteus termitum, from termite nests in Brazil, 



