MUTINUS BAM BUS IN US, FROM J. GOSSWEILER, WEST 

 AFRICA. It is a question whether the tropical plant that passes 

 for Mutinus bambusinus is really distinct from the Mutinus 

 caninus of Europe. The specimen from Mr. Gossweiler, 

 Fig. 892, is smaller and more slender than our figure of 

 Mutinus bambusinus (cfr. Syn. Phalloids, fig. 26). The 

 coating of gleba is thick and is separated at the base, giving 

 it a pileate appearance. The plant has no pileus, however, 

 the gleba is borne directly on the stem. The "species" of 

 Mutinus have few distinguishing characters, excepting 

 general size and shape, but we would not like to propose a 

 new name for a collection that is only smaller and more 

 slender than usual. 



THELEPHORA MYRIOMERA, FROM E. CHEEL, 

 NEW SOUTH WALES (Fig. 893). I judge from descrip- 

 tion it is this plant which 

 was named from Australia. Flg 892 

 It is not a European form, 

 although it might be taken for a 

 lacerate form of Thelephora ter- 

 restris. It is a true Thelephora as 

 to color and spores, with hymenium 

 on the lower side only. No type of 

 Thelephora myriomera exists, and I 

 FIg - 893 think we are justified in taking this 



name for a plant from the same 

 country, and answering the description. 



SEISMOSARCA HYDROPHORA, FROM DR. J. B. CLE- 

 LAND, AUSTRALIA (Fig. 894). Additional specimens clear up 

 the mystery that surrounded this plant (cfr. Note 431). The hairs 

 that I supposed were on the surface are 

 really, I think, "gloeocystidia," and im- 

 bedded in the jelly. The basidia are ob- 

 long, cruciate, divided, with four long 

 sterigmata. The spores are 6x12, ellip- 

 tical, pale yellow tint. The hairs and 

 basidia, both in a mashed piece, appear 

 on the surface, but I believe they are im- Fig. 894. 



bedded in a very transparent mucilage. 



The color of the plant is pale amber. The structure of this plant is 

 similar, and it is cogeneric with the common plant we have, called 

 Exidiopsis alba (Letter 44, Note 48). 



The genera of Tremellaceae are not all clear as yet. We believe 

 Seismosarca to be same as Exidiopsis in sense of Moeller, but not 

 of Brefeld. In this view our American plant becomes Seismosarca 

 alba (not Exidiopsis alba as in Note 48). There is no doubt of the 

 identity of Cooke's genus, notwithstanding that Cooke did not in 

 his account and figure present a single feature correctly and did not 



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