discovered in America. I feel however, it is much more in the interest 

 of truth to record from Africa a plant hitherto only known from 

 America than to embarrass the literature of the subject with these 

 imaginary "new species." The same plant has recently arrived at the 

 Museum of Paris from Java, and it is probable when the distribution 

 of the "puff balls" of the world becomes known, it will be found to be 

 widely distributed, but it is of interest to know that this species has 

 never been collected in Europe. If it occurs in South America, which 

 is strongly probable, it masquerades no doubt as one of Spegazzini's 

 "new species." 



TYLOSTOMA BERTEROANUM. 



We omitted this species from our recent pamphlet of the Tylos- 

 tomeae as at that time we did not have material to satisfactorily illus- 

 trate it. The type specimen in the herba- 

 rium of Montague while sufficient to 

 identify the species on comparison, is 

 hardly sufficient for illustration. During 

 a recent visit to Kew we found ample 

 material of the plant, collected in Brazil, 

 by Glaziou, and Professor Massee kindly 

 gave us a specimen from which our fig- 

 ures have been made. We have also seen 

 the same collection in the museum at 

 Berlin. One of these collections was <U 

 termined Tylostoma mammosum, the 

 other Tylostoma fimbriatum, both evi- 

 dently in error, as no species with such 

 a mouth grows in Europe, although I 

 think Dr. Hollos has used these South 

 American plants to illustrate the mouth. 



Fig. 116. 



Fig. 115. 



characters of " Tylostoma fimbriatum, Fries." 



TYLOSTOMA BERTEROANUM (Fig. 116 natural 

 size, Fig. 115 enlarged four diameters). Stipe dark, faintly 

 scaly. Cortex mostly peeling away, leaving the peridium 

 smooth-furfuraceous. Mouth indefinite, fibrillose.f Capil- 

 litium thick, subhyaline threads, 12-15 m ' c - broad, with 

 rather scanty, swollen septa. Spores globose, slightly rough. 

 The collections of Glaziou are two or three times as large 

 as the original type specimens from Chile (Bertero 7-M ) 

 but on comparison, as they have the same peculiar nmuth. 

 spores and capillitium, we think they are the same spivks. 



in tne gen 

 or Europe. 



type ? f mouth known as "nmbriate" in the Geasters, and is ractf 

 "*. " does not occur in any species known from North Am-i-i.-a 



