viany years ago Gay sent a collection of Chilean specimens to 



Both Montagne and Leveille worked with it. The latter 



ahed this plant Exidia vitellina, though why an Exidia I do not 



t was not an Exidia even in those crude days. Montagne 



ood illustration of it in Flora Chilena. Berkeley referred 



from Tasmania, evidently from Montagne's picture. 



1 the specimen at Kew, but judging from Berkeley's 



K s something entirely different. 



^ in Saccardo as Hirneola vitellina taken from Fries 

 y never saw Leveille's specimen, but was only guessing 

 e's short account. Patouillard first called it Cyphella 

 '?ter Aleurodiscus vitellinus. As previously stated it 

 nblance to other species of either genus, and to the 

 ng large spores and basidia. I am particularly 

 t with an interesting history from Mr. Espinosa. 

 itellinus "egg yellow" does not well express its 

 A ;a informs me that when fresh it is orange and the 

 more brown. Until I sectioned the plant, I took it 

 JUT photograph (Fig. 1102) is made from a specimen 

 -cd. 



rJIELEBOLUS LIGNICOLA 



' STEWART H. BURNHAM, NEW YORK 



AH a cei tury ago (1790) Tode published a work with 

 *cr crude it is true, but many species, especially the old 

 t their names from this work of Tode. Among others a 

 nous plant (his fig. 56) that Tode represented as ejecting 

 atinous ball, somewhat in the same manner as Sphaerobolus 

 Cfr. Mycological Notes, p. 431). Tode named his plant 

 , and Fries put all these genera that had the spores in 

 i is" together as a family. The structure of these "balls," 



Fig. 1103. 



however, is quite different. In Sphaerobolus the "ball" is a peridiole 

 with the same structure as the peridioles of other Nidulariaceae, as 

 now classed. (Cfr. our pamphlet on Nidulariaceae). Thelebolus is 

 still included in Saccardo in Nidulariaceae, but as we could not get 

 any information on it -when we wrote our pamphlet, we omitted it. 

 We are therefore particularly glad to get this collection from Mr. 

 Burnham, as we get our first definite idea of the genus from these 

 specimens. Thelebolus has no place in the Nidulariaceae. The 

 nature of the peridiole is entirely different. 



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