Fungi of the Marshall Islands — Rogers 
worthy of comment. The circumscription and 
nomenclature are those of Macbride and 
Martin (1934). 
Phycomycetes 
18. Glaziella aurantiaca (Berk, and 
Curt.) Cooke, Grevillea 11: 83,1883; Lloyd, 
Mycol. Writings 7: 1203-1204, pi. 248, 
fig. 2484, 1923; Boedijn, Buitenzorg Jard. 
Bot. Jour. 3 ser. 11: 57-66, fig. 1-7, 1930. 
Xylaria aurantiaca Berk, and Curt., Linn. 
Soc. [London] Jour. Bot. 10: 382, 1868. 
Glaziella vesiculosa Berk., Naturhist. For. 
Kjobenhavn Vidensk. Meddel., 1879-80: 
31, 1879; Thaxter, Amer. Acad. Arts and 
Sci. Proc. 72: 334, pi. 4, fig. 88-94, 1922. 
Fructifications tuberiform, bladderlike, approxi¬ 
mately isodiametric or flattened, plicate, scarlet, 
growing paler toward the base, tough-membran¬ 
ous, hollow, opening by an irregular fissure either 
at the base or above, about 1.5-5 cm. in greatest 
diameter, early partly enveloped in a white bys- 
soid veil, later free, the surface slightly roughened; 
hyphae of the veil 4.5-5 in diameter, their walls 
asperulate, about 0.5 n thick, the lumen inter¬ 
rupted at intervals of 15-60 n by thin septa; wall 
of fructification composed of compact outer layers 
of hyphae with inflated cells up to 10 ^ in diam¬ 
eter; of medullary hyphae loosely interwoven, 
septate, 2-3 /* in diameter; and of embedded 
chlamydospores; chlamydospores ellipsoid, about 
300 X 200 /*, with a rigid wall 17-19 thick and 
an outer apparently gelatinized membrane 5-7 
thick, enclosing fluid material with numerous oil 
globules. 
On the surface, or under loose fragments, 
of well-decayed vegetation, chiefly leaves of 
Cocos nucifera. Ebon, R. S. Cowan and 
D. P. R. (D. P. R. 1343). 
The fungus is characterized adequately for 
recognition merely as having hollow, red, 
membranous fructifications; the few micro¬ 
scopic details given are only for possible 
microscopic comparison with other material, 
for it is less than certain that the Ebon col- 
• 
lection is conspecific with those reported 
from the American tropics. Thaxter writes 
of the "conspicuous orange yellow color” of 
G. aurantiaca; and the specific epithet seems 
95 
(except by Boedijn) to have been taken 
without challenge at its face value. The 
carrying of a copy of Ridgway to the humid 
tropics seemed too hazardous, and no color 
comparison could be made in the field; but 
the fructifications certainly were not orange. 
My recollection is that the deepest-colored 
would come close to Scarlet-Red, 3 or at least 
Scarlet, and the paler basal portions were not 
yellowish, but a clear rosy pink. The col¬ 
lectors of Boedijn’s specimens gave the color 
as "dunkel steinrot” and "orangerot.” Pre¬ 
sumably neither Thaxter nor Berkeley nor 
Curtis ever saw the fungus in living condi¬ 
tion; and in 2 months the Marshalls collec¬ 
tion has faded to various orange-yellow 
shades, and in both color and consistency 
could very well be taken for slightly de¬ 
fective dried peaches or apricots. Without 
knowledge of fresh American material it 
would be rash and useless, therefore, to 
attempt to distinguish the fungus from 
G. aurantiaca by its color. Boedijn, whose 
admirable account gives an excellent idea of 
the Ebon material (except that the living 
specimens here reported were not in the least 
gelatinous), found no obstacle to the treat¬ 
ment of his specimens under the early name. 
Mr. Cowan found the greater number of 
fructifications (11 were collected) in deep 
shade under a tangle of bushes in a dense 
grove of coco palms. The species is reported 
from half a dozen islands of the West Indies, 
from Brazil and Mexico, and from two 
islands in the Netherlands Indies. Lloyd 
(loc. cit.) described a second species from 
Nicobar Island, which in Thaxter’s opinion 
(Stevenson and Cash, 1936: 3) may be iden¬ 
tical. There are other synonyms. 
Basidiomycetes 
19. Tulasnella allantospora Wakef. 
and Pears., Brit. Mycol. Soc. Trans. 8: 220, 
fig. 7, 1923; Rogers, Ann. Mycol. 31: 190, 
3 Color-names capitalized are used in the sense 
of Ridgway (1912). 
