63 



*CLADONIA VERTICILLATA (Floerk.) Schaer. Lich. Helv. Spic. 1831, 31. 



Arfak Mts., Koebre ridge, 9000', carpeting on burnt open summit. 

 Dec. 5739. 



Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 



STICTA VARIABILIS Achar. Lichenogr. 445. Schum. & Laut. N. 30. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, epiphytic in forest by ? lake, 7000'. Dec. 

 5905. 



Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. Polynesia to E. Africa. 



FUNGI. (J. RAMSBOTTOM.) 

 PYRENOMYCETES. 



H YPOCREACE^E. 



PODOCREA COHNU-DAM^: (Pat.) Lind. in Engl. & Prantl, Naturfam. i. 365 

 (1897). 



Lower foot-hills, Arfak Mts., 500', terrestrial in forest. Jan. 5703. 



This species was described from China by Patouillard, who placed it in 

 the genus Hypocrea. The stromata of typical species of this genus are 

 crustaceous, cushion-shaped or hemispherical, and those s| ecies which have 

 an elongated or vertical stroma are better separated off as a distinct genus. 

 Saccardo placed them in the subgenus Podocrea, which Lindau afterwards 

 (/. c.) raised to generic rank. Atkinson (Bot. Gaz. xl. 401 (1905)) showed 

 that the generic name Podophyllum had meanwhile been proposed by Karsten 

 (Hedw. xxxi. 294 (1892)) and therefore had priority. As Podophyllum was 

 a name used by Linnaeus (1735 and Sp. PI. i. 723 (1753)) for a genus of 

 Berberidaceae it cannot be duplicated amongst the fungi, and Podocrea must 

 stand. 



XYLABIACE^E. 



XYLARIA POLYMORPHA (Pers.) Grev. Flor. Edin. 355 (1824). 



On dead trunk in forest. Lower foot-hills by Momi River, Arfak Mts. 

 500'. Dec. 6151. 



Distrib. World-wide. 



XYLARIA DOMINGENSIS (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. i. 315 (1882). 



On dead wood in forest, foot-hills by Momi River, Arfak Mts., 500'. 

 6136. 



Distrib. West Indies, etc. 



