spores of this species are 6x8, colored, slightly irregular in outline, 

 and very slightly tubercular. Each has a large gutta. The proper 

 generic classification is a question. As to color and spores it is close 

 to Theleohora As to general form and amphigenous hymemum it 

 is Clavariaceae. It is not a true Lachnocladium excepting in a broad 

 sense including both hyaline and colored spores. No species ol this 

 type of plants occurs in Europe or the United States, hence we are 

 not troubled with the question of its proper classification in our own 



Lachnocladium congestum seems fairly common in Australia. We 

 have gotten it before, but these are the first good specimens. Ladi- 



nocladium Archeri (Thelephora for Berkeley) is a very similar plant, 

 but more slender and only known from the type. We present a photo- 

 graph of Lachnocladium congestum (Fig. 884), also Lachnocladium 

 Archeri (Fig. 885), both from the types at Kew. We judge from our 

 photographs that Lachnocladium Kunzii from Java is the same as 

 Lachnocladium congestum. Why Berkeley called one Lachnocladium 

 and the other Thelephora, I do not know. 



POLYPORUS POCULUS, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, 

 SOUTH AFRICA (Fig. 886). A fine collection, and the first time 

 ever collected in Africa. A full account was given, Myc. Notes, Old 

 Sp. Ser., p. 45. This unique little species was originally from the 

 United States, and, until I investigated, it was supposed to grow 

 nowhere else. It is rare in foreign countries, but in the museums of 

 Europe I dug up four collections (cfr. Myc. Notes, Pol. No. 3, p. 44), 

 French Guiana, Australia, Brazil and Japan. I have since gotten 

 fine collections from Japan (A. Yasuda). Now that Miss Duthie has 

 found this curious species from Africa, it is known from every con- 

 tinent excepting Europe. With us it usually grows on chestnut bark; 

 Miss Duthie found it on eucalyptus. 



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