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7091. On ground in a pasture near Chapel Hill, August 24, 1923. 

 7119. Same location as above, September 11, 1923. 



Virginia. C. F. Dodge, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Indiana. Lafayette Co. J. C. Arthur, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as 5. Warnei). 



Dakota. October, 1908. Braendle. Fungi Dakotensis No. 49. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as S. 



acuminatum.) 

 Wisconsin. Madison. Cheney, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 5.5-6.6 x 8-9. 7/j. 



For other localities see Lloyd, Myc. Notes No. 14: 139. 1903. 



RHOPALOGASTER Johnston 



Johnston has shown (Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences 38: 61, one plate. 1903) 

 that the following species, commonly known as Cauloglossum transversarium, cannot be 

 retained in that genus which is really a synonym of Podaxon. He proposes for the 

 species the monotypic genus FJiopalogaster. Johnston defines the genus as follows: 



"Fruiting body clavate, stipitate, traversed by a firm subgelatinous axil columella 

 continuous with the stipe. Stipe firm, erect with naked base. Peridium simple, 

 continuous with the stipe below and with the columella at the apex, more or less eva- 

 nescent-indehiscent. Gleba persistent. Tramal plates extending from the columella 

 toward the peridium. Basidia clavate, in groups, 4-spored, spores simple, borne on 

 well-developed sterigmata." 



Rhopalogaster transversarium (Bosc) Johnston. 

 Cauloglossum transversarium (Bosc) Fr. 



Plates 41 and 111 



This plant of the southeastern Gulf states was first collected in the Carolinas but 

 was not well known structurally until the work of Johnston (1. c). It has been found 

 at Wilmington in abundance by Curtis and by Wood, and we have a collection from 

 Nag's Head, N. C. As our dried plants are not in good condition we copy the 

 following description from Johnston's paper, which see for much fuller structural 

 detail and discussion of synonomy: 



"Narrowly to broadly club-shaped, 3-7 cm. high; the distal end of the columella 

 appearing at or near the apex, either as a shallow orbicular depression, or a slight pro- 

 tuberance. Peridium dirty brownish or buff yellow. When young the gleba is dirty 

 gamboge yellow; when exposed by injury becoming dirty olive brown, eventually dark. 

 Stem nearly white when fresh. Spores ovate-elliptical, 3.6-4.3 x 5.8-7.2^, yellow 

 brown, borne on long slender sterigmata. The plants grow out of the bases of living 

 or dead trees or upon rotten wood, stumps or fallen logs, or among rubbish on the ground 

 close by in wet pine lands. September-November. S. Carolina (Bosc, 1811, Curtis, 

 1857?); Santee Canal, S. C. (Ravenel); Wilmington, N. C. (Wood, November, 1880, 

 Curtis, November, 1846); Carolina (Berkeley, 1873); Gainsville, Fla. (Ravenel, 1878); 

 Eustis, Fla. (Thaxter, October, 1897); Tuskegee, Ala. (Beaumont, aestate, 1853)." 



The specimen labelled Cauloglossum transversarium in the Philadelphia Herbarium 

 (Ravenel, Fung. Car. Exs. 79) is not this species but Sphaeria herculea Schw., according 

 to Ravenel. 



