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NOTE ON LYSUBUS WOODII (MacOWAN), LLOYD. 
Paul A. van der Bijl. 
(With Plate XI.) 
In 1880 Kalclibrenner* published under the name Antlmrus Woodii, 
MacOwan, the description of a fungus collected by J. Medley Wood at 
Inanda, Natal. Since tliat date until 1917, when Mrs. J. Gr. Hackland, of 
Ixopo, Natal, favoured me with the specimens, Figs. 1-3, which form the 
subject of this paper, no similar fungus was collected in Natal, or for 
that matter in South Africa. The specimens were found in a rhubarb 
trench, and though at my request Mrs. Hackland subse juently made a 
thorough search for more material, none could be obtained. When received 
the fungus was referred as above, and a photograph of it was forwarded to 
Mr. C. Gr. Lloyd, Ohio, U.S.A. From the photograph Mr. Lloyd referred 
it to Lysurus Gardneri, Berk., and in publishingf the photograph mentioned 
that in his mind there was no doubt of this being the original Anthurus 
Woodii. 
Considerable interest has recently been taken in the identity or otherwise 
of the Ceylouese plant L. Gardneri, Berk., with the Australian L. australi- 
ensis, Cooke. Petch;]; made comparative studies of these two plants and 
has shown that they are entirely different ; indeed the differences are so great 
as to warrant placing L. Gardneri in a new genus, for which he suggests 
the name Pharus. 
The separation of Lysurus Gardneri into the new genus Pharus is based 
on differences in the glebiferous layer. Amongst other points of difference 
Petch§ showed that whereas in L. australiensis the glebiferous layer is 
comi^osed of a series of closely set horizontal ridges, in L. Gardneri {now 
Pharus Gardneri (Berh), Pefch) it is slightly furrowed transversely, and the 
whole surface minutely granidar^ the granules being the ends of thin 
processes or the irregular edges of contorted plates, so closely packed that 
their outer ends form a continuous surface. 
* Kalchbrenner, K. — Phalloidei novi vel minus cogniti, Budapest, 1880, p. 23. 
t Lloyd, C. a.— Mycological Notes, No. 55, p. 793, August, 1918. 
X Fetch, T.— Further Notes on Cohis Gardneri (Berk.), Fisher, Trans. British 
Mycological Soc. VI, 122 (1919). 
§ Fetch, T.—Loc. ext., p. 127. 
