Cyathus limbatus (?). Another collection, spores a little broader. 

 12 x 20. The habits are not typical, but it is too close to separate. 



Cyathus close to pallidus as to cups, but larger spores (9x16) 

 and not so large as triplex. The pallidus section of Cyathus, when we 

 get many collections of it, will prove troublesome on account of the spore 

 variation. 



Cyathus close to Cyathus Montagnei. Spores 12 x 16-20. It does not 

 have the mycelial pad at the base that we have associated with Montagnei. 



Cyathus, surely the same as the preceding. 



Lycoperdon guttatum, as 1 shall call it. It belongs to the poly 

 morphum section, but has no sterile base. The peridium is reddish brown 

 closely resembling Bovista brunnea. The cortex dries up in little areas 

 as it often does in Lycoperdon cepaeforme. The capillitium is colored anc 

 typical of this section. The spores are 5-6 (larger than usual in this 

 section) smooth, strongly apiculate, and have a character I never noticed 

 before in Lycoperdon spores. They are guttate in a water mount, as ard 

 many spores of agarics. 



- LjQCOperdon, a scanty collection which resembles Wrightii, but haa 

 colored capillitium. It has not the same cortex as pusillum. 

 * Geaster (probably young saccatus). 



Geaster velutinus (form). This is a new form to me of the variable 

 species velutinus (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 315). It is light colored (tropical 

 forms usually are dark) and differs from the type form in having 

 a short stipe at the base. It is a connecting form between Geaster velutinus 

 and Geaster stipitatus. Mr. Vanderyst has sent more than thirty specimens, 

 all unopened except one. Is it any wonder that when these unopened 

 epigaean Geasters strayed into European mycologists they were made into a 

 "new genus," Cycloderma? 



YOSHINAGA, T., Japan: 



Lycoperdon (unnamed). It grew densely caespitose and resembles 

 Lycoperdon compressum of the United States in its size and habits. It 

 belongs, however, to the Pratense section, and has hyaline capillitium. 

 Gleba olive, spores slightly oval, 4 mic., apiculate and slightly rough), 

 Cyathus minimus (which is probably, I think, the oriental form of Cyathus 

 striatus. The spores are exactly the same, and it differs only in having 

 small sub-even cups. There are, however, faint indications of striae in 

 the cups.) Crucibulum vulgare (form) (Differing from the usual form in 

 the cups which are not so cylindrical but more tapering. Also in having the 

 cups only half full of peridioles so that at first sight it appears quite 

 different. It is the first collection of this genus I have seen from Japan, 

 and is well entitled to a name as a variety if not as a species. The spores 

 and peculiar peridiole structure are exactly the same as the type form.) 

 Crucibulum vulgare (not so old as other collection, hence more brownish) : 

 Cyathus stercoreus (which is the common Cyathus in Japan, and the only 

 one that has heretofore reached me). 



ZENKBR, G., West Africa:: 



Lycoperdon pusillum, Cyathus Poeppigii. 



