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2. Gautieria Otthii Trog, Naturforsch. Ges. Bern Mitt. 
1857 : 43. 1857 (in Nos. 388-390) [sometimes cited as Ver- 
zeichniss schweiz. Schwimme Nachtrag 3:43. 1857]; Sac- 
cardo & Sydow in Sace. Syll. Fung. 14 : 268. 1899. 
Fructification globose, 1-114 inch long, slightly narrower, with a 
"rootlet" at the base connected with a white columella. e long, 
somewhat winding cavities are numerous and small, visible iti a 
weak lens, within larger but uniformly distributed, and as there is 
no peridium, the cavities are visible on the upper surface, of the 
same form as those within. They are wholly formed by the 
hymenium which bears striped, egg-shaped spores on short basidia. 
Spores brown and filled with granules. Odor weak, unpleasant. 
Hardlisberg, Switzerland. 
—Trog. 
There seems to be nothing in the above description to dif- 
ferentiate С. Otth from G. graveolens Vitt. As both com- 
mon species of Gautieria have been reported from Switzer- 
land and as Trog reports G. morchelliformis Vitt., it seems 
highly probable that this species should be reduced to 
synonymy, but it seems unwise to do so before studying type 
material or material from the type locality. 
3. Gautieria Drummondi Cooke, Handbook of Australian 
Fungi, 247. 1892. 
Illustration: Cooke, Handbook of Australian Fungi, pl. 15. 
f. 130. 
**Subglobose, small; cells sinuous; spores ellipsoid, with 
large nucleus, 14-158 y, hyaline. 
“Тп the soil. W. Australia."' 
—Cooke. 
Cooke described this form from a specimen (No. 4446 in 
Berkeley’s herbarium) in fragmentary condition. If Cooke’s 
drawings are at all reliable, this plant is a Rhizopogon and 
would probably fall into synonymy in that genus. The spore 
measurements are rather larger than in many species of 
Rhizopogon, but much smaller than any in Gautieria except G. 
monticola and G. plumbea. Only a study of the type material 
can decide the position of this species. The description would 
fit either genus. 
