30 or more specimens of this fungus collected at several places. The 

 photograph enclosed here is of dry specimens or specimens preserved 

 in alcohol. 



"Cordyceps nutans is the special product of Fukuoka prefecture 

 in Japan." 



See additional account of Cordyceps sobolifera on page 585. 



CORDYCEPS CAPITATA IN JAPAN. In our last issue we did not in- 

 clude this as a species recorded from Japan. We note a drawing of the plant (Figs. 

 11, 12, Plate 13) in Illustrations of Japanese Fungi, published by the Bureau of 

 Forestry, and received since our article was written. The figure is evidently cor- 

 rectly named, though not as good as most of the figures of this excellent series. 

 The color is too dark, the fresh plant is much more yellow, also the tuber (host) at 

 base of the plant appears as though it were a part of the Cordyceps. They are 

 quite distinct from each other, and do not merge as those in the figure. 



RARE SPECIES OF FUNGI RECEIVED FROM 

 CORRESPONDENTS, 



SEBACINA AMESII (Fig. 810). Pileus fleshy, pithy, tu- 

 bercular or compressed globose, 3-5 cm. in diameter, about one cm. 

 thick. Context white, 5-10 mm. thick, light and pithy, composed of 

 loosely woven hyphae. Surface appressed tomentose with soft, 

 agglutinate hairs, (Fig. 811 enlarged). Hymenium inferior, a thin, 

 fleshy layer contrasting in texture with the pithy context (Fig. 812 



enlarged), warm buff color, 

 40 to 100 mic. thick, with 

 the numerous basidia im- 

 bedded at various depths. 

 Basidia (Fig. 813) globose, 

 12-16 mic., pale with gran- 

 ular contents, and finally 

 septate. Spores pyriform, 

 8x12 mic. hyaline, opaque, 

 smooth with a lateral api- 

 culus. 



This characteristic and 

 evidently very rare species 

 departs from the genus Se- 

 bacina, as now considered, 

 in not being resupinate, but 

 having a thick, subglobose 

 pileus. On this account it 

 might well be made a new 



, c . genus, but it is evidently 



so close to Sebacma in structure and so similar to the common species, 

 bebacina mcrustans, in appearance, and particularly the hymenium, 



genus * ^ ^ t0 S laSS h and enlarge the limits of the 



Fig. sis. 



- iviy mena froicssor McGinty does not tal-> tv. t u -c 



made now it will be as soon as nmo view. He says if a "new genus" is not 



sJHis^^ 



in which it was discove^ ^ulhlTecTrlffi^S^ ^K 611 ^ 0113 ^ ^ ma " ner 



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