THELEPHORA JAPONICA, FROM A. YASUDA, JAPAN 

 (Fig. 841). I think a good 

 species, as named by Professor 

 Yasuda. Close to Thelephora pa- 

 pillosa (Letter No. 54). Same hy- 

 menium and spores, the latter 

 typically Thelephora spores. Dif- 

 fers in its dark, fibrillose surface, 

 and apparently in its method of 

 growth. These two species, both 

 from Japan, are the only Thele- 

 phoras known to me with per- 

 manent, papillate hymenium. 



Fig. 841. 



A CONIDIAL XYLARIA (?) (Fig. 842). Some years ago 

 we received from Dr. Mary Whet- 

 stone, Minnesota, a curious and ev- 

 idently rare fungus that we have 

 never been able to satisfactorily ex- 

 plain. It consisted of pale, woody, 

 clavate bodies proceeding from a hard 

 sclerotoid base. We assume that it 

 is the earlier or conidial stage of some 

 Xylaria, but no Xylaria is known in 

 this country or Europe that is de- 

 veloped from a sclerotium. In the 

 East there is a species Xylaria nig- 

 ripes, that is produced from a sclero- 

 tium and usually (always, perhaps) 

 found on the ant hills. Prof. Fetch 

 has published very full accounts of 

 it. We do not give it a name, for we 

 do not believe in naming things when 

 one does not know what they are, 

 but it is very curious, and we hope 

 will come again to the notice of some 

 of our correspondents. The sclero- 

 tium is very hard and the specimen 

 has the appearance of having been split off from a larger mass. 



HYDNUM HENNINGSII, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, 

 SOUTH AFRICA. This is the first well-developed specimen of this 

 species that has been collected. The original was resupinate with 

 deformed tubercules. This is dimidiate, four inches in diameter, 

 yellow when fresh and evidently conspicuous when growing. The flesh 

 of the dried plant is bright, but pale yellow. The teeth well formed, 

 but brown, contrasting with the yellow flesh. Spores are 4x6, ellip- 

 tical, smooth, colored. Hydnums with colored spores are rare. None 

 occur in Europe or the United States. But four are known to me, 

 one from South America, one from China, this one from South Africa, 

 and an unnamed species from Cuba that I saw in the museum at 

 Paris. I have previously received Hydnum Henningsii from I. B. 

 Pole Evans, Pretoria, South Africa, which, however, was resupinate. 



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