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petiole, there had been rain in showers some day or two previously 
and the little plants were out of doors exposed to it. 
EUTYPA GAULIVORA MASSEE. 
This fungus was found first on dead trees of Para rubber, the 
black asphalte-like fructification appearing on the trunk some time 
after the death of the tree, and was described by Massee and his 
account published in the Bulletin Vol. IX. p. 217 - 
In both cases, I believe, and certainly in one, the death of the tree 
was caused by its being overset in a storm and nearly all its roots 
broken. Mr. Massee thought that the plant was certainly parasitic 
on the living tree. Of this, however, I was myself doubtful. I have 
since found it on a broken portion of a rubber tree, and on a stem of 
Macaranga Griffiths cut down and used for bridging a ditch. In this 
case I have no reason to suppose it was not a post mortem attack. 
There were no Macarangas attacked by any disease apparent on the 
ground befere they were felled in clearing. 
In the case of the Hevea too everything points to the fungus 
being saprophytic. The '.tree had been blown over and lay prostrate 
throwing up stems from near the butt. The end of the tree was cut 
away, and about six feet of the trunk was cracked across. This portion 
died and eventually became detached lying on the ground m contact 
with the living portion. Decay set in and the first fungus to appeal 
was the common Schizophyllum commune , a fungus which only attacks 
dead wood, and is one of the commonest causes of decay of timber here^ 
This fungus had fruited and decayed away before the appearance oi 
Eutypa. Some black patches however did appear before the Schizophyl - 
!um was actually decayed, but did not fruit till later. The wood in fact 
was decayed to a considerable extent before Eutypa made its appeal - 
ance at all. Now though the detached portion bearing the Eutypa is 
in actual contact with the still living portion of the tree there arc 
no signs anywhere on this portion of Eutypa or any. othei fungus. 
It is confined to the long-dead detached bit, though this is actually 
touching the living tree. This seems to confirm the theory the 
Eutypa caulivora is a saprophytic fungus only. 
A NEW HEVEA FUNGUS FROM SURINAM. 
We add the following notes on new fungi from recent publi- 
cations. In the Bulletin of the Surinam department van del 
Landlbouw for April 1910, there is an account and figure ot a lea 
disease of Hevea which does not seem to be the same thing as the 
common leaf disease here. The paper is written in Dutch, but the 
is a summary in English tu the effect that. 
