unaccompanied by notes or sketch. I would not like to try to reconstruct 

 the plant from the specimen, but am confident it is no known species 

 I hope to get further details. 



LAING, H. W., New Zealand: 



Secotium lutescens. Color of the peridium "dark cream to pale yellow 

 on upper surface, lighter color below." Spores colored, smooth, elliptical 

 7 x 12 mic. The plant is closely related to Secotium erythrocephalum, but 

 differs in color, which is "pale yellow" instead of bright scarlet. The plants 

 are not well dried, but it seems to me the peridium takes more of a pileate 

 form than usual in this genus and spreads out away from the stipe. It is 

 very distinct from all species previously known to me. Pilacre. "A small 

 red plant, growing on a piece of clay." It belongs, I think, to the genus 

 Pilacre, a genus little known to me. I find no description of any red 

 species. Crucibulum vulgare. A small form that is more frequent in Aus- 

 tralia than in Europe or America. Secotium scabrosum. This is the first 

 collection I have received of this plant, and all previously known was a 

 single head at Kew. It differs from its allies in having warted spores. Color 

 "bright violet" when fresh. Secotium (unnamed). Color "malachite green 

 on the upper surface, lighter yellow." No green Secotium is described. It 

 differs from other species also in having strong apicitlale spores, almost 

 pedicellate. Scleroderma flavida Clathrus cibarius. Mr. Laing writes that 

 the species is "plentiful enough in some localities. Usually they are three 

 or four inches in diameter, as stated by you, but in some cases they grow 

 even up to six inches in diameter." Geaster limbatus. 'Typical as to form 

 with the English plant and the first collection recorded from Australasia. 

 There is only one difference between this collection and the European plant. 

 The color of the English endoperidium is black, of the New Zealand more 

 grayish, even silvery. A "new species" might be based on the difference, 

 but I do not think it advisable to thus needlessly complicate matters. Lyco- 

 perdon pratense, with abnormal cortex. 

 LUJA, EDOUARD, Congo Free State: 



Cyathus. It does not exactly fit anything. Spores 16 x 18. Coarse 

 peridiole fibrils. Closest to limbatus and Montagnei. Lycogala Epidendrum. 

 The occurrence in Central Africa of this little Myxomycetes, so common in 

 Europe and United States, is another evidence of the wide distribution of ; 

 fungi. "Xylaria flabelliformis" or very close. Almost the same plant 

 that we have and which Schweinitz first called Thelephora (Merisma) 

 nigripes and afterwards Xylaria flabelliformis, claiming that it was the con- 

 idial state of a Xylaria, which view was accepted in Ellis' Pyrenomycetes, 

 and is current tradition in America. It has, however, I think, never 

 been verified by observation. The African plant is very much the same 

 shape, but has larger spores, 4x8 (3x6 in American form). Calvatia lila- 

 cina, as it grows in every country in 1he world. 



MUNN, MRS., Jamaica: 



Calvatia lilacina (sterile base). 

 FETCH, T., Ceylon: 



Lycoperdon cervinum. In the sense of Berkeley's Ceylon deter- j 

 mination, not of his South American, which is not a Lycoperdon. Lycoper- 

 don rubeculum, a good species as previously noted. Geaster Archeri (form). 



