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A rare and interesting plant of curious distribution and habits. Lloyd in Myc 

 Notes, p. 1S5, refers to the four places that the plant had been found up to that time. 

 He later refers to another find in France (Myc. Notes, p. 337) and there gives structural 

 details of young plants. There is only one American record, on tanbark at Trexlertown, 

 Pennsylvania, where it was collected by Dr. Herbst, who found it three years in 

 succession. 



We have examined the capillitium and spores of one of Dr. Herbst's plants from the 

 Pennsylvania station (now in the New York Botanical Garden) and do not find the 

 spores behaving in the way described by Miss White. They are strongly and ir- 

 regularly warted, 6-9/i thick, often with a short pedicel. The capillitium is peculiar in 

 fragmenting up at the joints into fairly long contorted sections with closed ends. They 

 may of course be broken at other places to allow the entrance of air or water, but the 

 completely closed sections are characteristic. 



For other references by Lloyd, see Myc. Notes, pages 135, 217, 323. 



Illustrations: Fries. Ofversigt Kongl. Vetens. Akad. Forhandlingar, Stockholm, pi. 4. 1871. Copied 

 by Fischer in Pflanzenfamilien l 1 : 343, fig. 180. 

 Lloyd. Genera Gasteromycetes, pi. 3, fig. 23. 

 Lloyd. Myc. Works, pi. 10, figs. 5-7; pi. 122. 

 Quelet. Champ. Jura, etc., part 2, pi. 3. fig. 8. 

 White. Bull. Torr.Bot. Club 28: pi. 38. 1901. 



Pennsylvania. Trexlertown. On tanbark. Dr. Herbst, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb, and U. N. C. 

 Herb.). 



