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every essential respect. This was, however, erroneously labelled 

 Sphaeria capitata. 13 These two specimens are unquestionably 

 according to Juel, parts of a single collection of material made by 

 Thunberg on Podocarpus falcata at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Authentic material of Lichen (Calicum) helopherus and 

 Sphaeria turbinata are probably no longer in existence. A 

 search for specimens of these species has been made for the 

 writer in the herbarium of Acharius at Helsingfors, Finland, and 

 in that of Persoon, at Leiden, Netherlands, but without success. 

 Since Persoon (39) states that his material was received from 

 Thunberg there is some reason for suspecting that Sphaeria 

 turbinata Pers., Lichen (Calicium) helopherus Acharius, and 

 Corynelia uberata Acharius were all founded on a single collec- 

 tion of material made by Thunberg (53 54) at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The descriptions were all prepared in such a manner, 

 however, that a reasonable doubt remains as to the identity of the 

 three forms.. There is no reason for believing that any of these 

 workers saw other than the material on which his own descrip- 

 tion was based. It seems best from every standpoint to accept 

 for the species under consideration the name Corynelia uberata. 

 There is certainly no justification for using the binomial C. 

 elavata (L.) Sacc. 



Corynelia elavata f. friicticola is the name applied by Rehm 

 (43) to material collected at the Cape of Good Hope on Podo- 

 carpus elongata, and distributed as No. 1326a of Rehm's As- 

 comyceten. The name was applied to specimens occurring on the 

 fruit of the host in contrast to those found on the leaves (/. 

 foliicola). The writer has examined the specimen in Rehm's 

 own herbarium, and feels that the use of these form names is 

 undesirable since the fungus on the leaves is morphologically 

 identical with that on the fruit. An examination of two sets of 

 the same exsiccati shows that Rehm distributed as No. 1326b. 

 under the name C. elavata a mixed lot of material of C. oreophila 

 and C. tropica collected in Chili by Neger. 



13 Same as Xylaria Schweinitzii B. & C. 



