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North Carolina. Chapel Hill. No. 5908. On bank of branch in a pasture, Nov. 20, 1922. Spores 

 irregularly spherical, 4.4-6^ thick, warted and often distinctly reticulated. 



Wilmington. Dr. F. F. Wood, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 

 spherical to oval or irregular, 5-6.5/1 or if elongated up to 7.4/i long, warted and often 

 partially reticulated. 



Salem. Schweinitz, coll. (Schw. Herb., No. 2267, as T. squammosum) . Spores distinctly warted 

 and often with a partial reticulum, 5-6.5/1 or rarely 6.5 x 7.8/i. 

 South Carolina. Folly Island. Small and Bragg, colls. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). 



Hartsville. In sandy loam in a vegetable garden, Dec. 24, 1925. Coker, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Spores distinctly warted and often with a partial reticulum, 4.5-6.5 x 5.4-7.4/1. These are 

 the largest plants we have seen, the case varying from about 1.2-1.7 cm. thick and with a 

 base with a very large sand bulb. 



Also from South Carolina in Ravenel's Fungi Car. Exs. No. 80, as Titlasnodea fimbriata. (N. 

 Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., Phil. Acad., and U. N. C. Herb.) The spores of the plant in New 

 York are distinctly warted and with partial reticulum, 5-6.5 x 6-7.4m; capillitium threads fre- 

 quently septate, 3-7.4^ or up to 1 1m thick at the swollen joints. 

 Florida. Gainesville. Ravenel. Fungi Amer. Exs. No. 137 as T. mammosum. (Path, and Myc. 

 Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.) Mouth opening surrounded by a thick, felted, chestnut colored 

 mat; upper part of inner peridium quite clean. Spores strongly reticulated, 4-6.6m thick. 

 Alabama. Auburn. Earle, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). 



QUELETIA Fries 



We give below a translation of the original description (Ofvers. K. Vetesnk.-Akad. 

 Forh. 28: 171. 1871): 



"Peridium simple, membranous, smooth, fragile, furnished at the basal margin 

 with a membranous collar and discrete from the stem, at length dehiscing irregularly. 

 The apex of the stem extending into the peridium supports a rudimentary columella. 

 Capillitium flocculent, scarce, attached to the peridium on all sides, continuous, con- 

 torted, branched, hyaline. Spores very plentiful, in masses, short-pediceled, globose, 

 verrucose-echinulate. Stem strong, fleshy-fibrous, loosely broken up externally in a 

 peculiar way into fibrous shavings. Only one species known: Queletia mirabilis." 



The genus differs from Tylostoma in larger size and absence of a definite mouth or 

 mouths, the inner peridium cracking and breaking up irregularly. There is no volva, 

 but the structure and behavior of the outer peridium are not well known. In speaking 

 of the capillitium as scarce, Fries seems to have been in error, as Miss White says it is 

 abundant (see below). For references to Lloyd's observations see under the species. 



Queletia mirabilis Fr. 



Plate 119 



We take the following description from Miss White, 1. c, p. 441: 



"Peridium globose, 2.5-3.5 cm. high, 3-4 cm. in diameter, fragile, easily separating 

 from the stem, rupturing irregularly, of a reddish brown color; collar irregular, of the 

 same substance as the peridium; stem 6.5-8 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide at the top, 2 cm. at 

 the base, fascicular, reddish brown, within and without, like the peridium, solid, lacerate, 

 fibrillose, particularly at the base; capillitium very abundant and interwoven, forming 

 with the spores a felt-like mass, reddish brown, single threads whitish yellow, thick- 

 walled, hollow as shown by the truncated ends, septa rare or wanting, 5-9/x wide, 

 branches rather short, free ends rounded and recurved; spores subglobose, coarsely 

 warted, 4-6/x in diameter, some short-pediceled, inner portion breaking up and issuing 

 from the thin-warted coating which is then hyaline and shrivelled." 



