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Dr. Florentino Fellippone, Montevideo, sends some sterile bases of 
Calvatia cyathiformis not of special interest in themselves, but of great 
interest to me as they enable me to demonstrate that “ Hippoperdon 
Pila,” described as a perfect plant from this region, is nothing but these 
sterile bases. 
T. Yoshinaga, Japan, favors me with Mitremyces Ravenelii exactly 
as it grows in the United States. The discovery of this plant in Japan is- 
of great interest. Not only is it I think the first Mitremyces recorded 
from Japan, but it is the first known species of Asia with oval spores. All 
the species of India of this curious genus have globose spores. We 
were interested in examining some green spots that occurred on these 
specimens. They proved to be a little green alga. (As there have 
been “ green ” species of Mitremyces described, we thought perhaps it 
might be due to this same cause. In that we find we were mistaken, for 
“ Mitremyces viridis ” is not as green as it is painted, in fact we cannot 
see any marked difference in color between the dried specimens and those 
of Mitremyces Junghuhnii, which species we believe it to be.) 
Mr, R. T. Baker, Sydney, Australia, favours us with two beautiful 
specimens of Podaxon Aegyptiacus which have been photographed and 
will appear in “ Mycological Notes.” This unique little species is the 
smallest of the genus, and this is the first time it has been recorded from 
Australia. It belongs to the series with dark red spores. A fragmentary 
specimen of the same from Sutton river, Australia, is found in Berkeley’s 
collection which he had determined as Podaxon pistillaris, a species of 
India belonging to the olive spored series. In the “ Australian Fungi, ,r 
it appears as Podaxon indicus, which is purely a juggled name based on 
two mistakes. Podaxon Aegyptiacus, originally known from North Africa 
is now recorded from German West Africa and Australia. 
Mr. R. T. Baker also sends Catastoma anomalum, to me a most 
welcome addition to this little known genus. It was described as Bovista 
anomala, and its name indicates unfamiliarity with the genus to which it 
belongs. It is an “ anomalous” Bovista, in fact not a Bovista at all, but 
a very natural Catastoma. In transferring it to this genus, it should be 
given another name. It is a most unique little species, with a very thin 
exoperidium, a chocolate brown endoperidium, and a raised mouth some¬ 
thing like the mouth of certain Tylostomas. Internally it has typically 
the structure of the genus Catastoma. 
Mr. Geo. H. Cave, British India sends Scleroderma columnare, a 
species quite distinct from those that occur in Europe and America. This 
plant has normally a long stalk, and on this account it has been claimed 
to belong to a separate genus, Areolaria. The specimens that Mr. Cave 
sends prove that “ the stalk ” is not of generic, nor even specific value, for 
while most of the specimens are stalked, some of them are entirely sessile. 
C. G. LLOYD. 
107, Boulevard St. Michel, 
Paris, France. 
