LETTER No. 25. 



List of specimens received at Paris I',-,,,,, countries (other than th- l'.,it,.(l 

 States) from November, 1908, up to my departure for England, .lainmn TJ. 

 1909. At the time this letter is issued I am at Kevv Gardens, England, but I 

 inist my correspondents will continue to send their packages to in, 

 address, and I will advise them in regard to them as soon as they come into 

 my hands. 



New Species. While I think there are very fe\\ " new species" in Europe 

 or the. United States, they are constantly being received by me from 

 countries. I do not claim to be able to recognize them, however, excepting 

 in the Gastromycetes, which I have studied specially for the past six or eight 



years with a view to learning the <>!<! species. As I do not make a practit f 



naming and "discovering" new species excepting when working on a mono- 

 graph or other systematic work, I much prefer that my correspondents \\ho 

 send in new species should name and describe them them>fl\e-. In these 

 Letters I indicate the unnamed species that reach me, and if the send' 

 sire to publish them, it is perfectly agreeable to me. I shall not do ii 

 it comes in connection with systematic work. Isolated descriptions of IH- 

 species as usually published are very much of a form, and not one out of ten 

 can be recognized from the publication. At the same time we have to have 

 names for plants, but I would much prefer that some one else would propose 

 them when I have occasion to use them. 



Please note my recent change of address in Paris, which is now. 



C. G. LLOYD, 



January, 1909. 63 rue Muffon, 



Paris. France. 



BARRIER, MAURICE, France: 

 Trametes hispida (?). 



BERNARD, DR. CHAS., Java: 



Scleroderma (unnamed). IVridium brlijlit >/>'ll<nr. thin, smooth, with 

 a short, rooty base. Gleba lead color. Spores small, 5-6 mic., rtry tl'njhtly 

 rough. This is the only bright yellow Scleroderma I ever saw. Scleroderma 

 Geaster, yellow form, (very doubtful or new species). It has the general ap- 

 pearance of being unopened Scleroderma GeMter, but is immature, and of 

 course we can not say that it would dehisce like Scleroderma ti.-a-t.-r. The 

 peridium is thinner than the European plant and when broken is bri,, 

 low. Scleroderma verrucosum. Practically the same plant as the KM- 

 f orm Cyathus sphaerosporus (or very close). Spores 16 x 18, subglo 1 

 Scleroderma nitidum-Cyathus Montague!, although 1 have never strnli.-. 

 type, I do not question that it is also Cyathus bjMfMdU whirl. Junghoh 

 u'red from Java. Spores are 12 x 20. Cyathus Montagu. -i. Same as t 

 ceding, but the cups are darker .-Cordyceps (sp.)-Xylaria (T 

 but unknown to me. Hypocrea (sp.). 



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