MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. Cl. LLOYD 
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are soared out but the m 
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AFRICA (Fig• 
LENZITES REP ADDA (PITH LONG STIPE), FROM T. HUNTER, REST 
1580).- he have probably seen in our own collection 
and in the museums of Europe five hundred specimens of Lenzites re¬ 
panda but we never before noted one with a long stipe. Usually it 
lias a short stipe or dish-lihe attachment, rarely it has no stipe 
at all. v f hy this particular specimen concluded to develop a long 
stem I do not hnow. As to every other feature excepting the long 
stem it is exactly the common Lenzites repanda. 
PTYCHOGASTER AFRIC AliUS, FROM T. HURT PR, PEST AFRICA (Fig. 
1531).- Ue question the utility of naming Ptychogasters for they are 
all inexplicable abnormalities or conditions of species of Poh/por us. 
Still as it is not always possible to refer them to the normal 
species the only thing to do is to give them a name. In Ptychogaster 
the tram a is usually resolved or replaced by a mass of spores, usu¬ 
ally pulverulent or dusty. The spores of this, however, are cohe¬ 
sive and brittle and at first I did not notice it was different from 
the ordinary trama. Put I could not account for its crumbly nature 
and the microscope shows it is simply a mass of spores. As to the 
normal species, I believe it is only the Ptychogaster form of Poly- 
pcrus (Gan.) Japonicus, a normal specimen (Po.810) which Hr. Hunter 
sends. The Ptychogaster spores form a mass of peculiar color, about 
Hihado brown of Ridgway. The spores are subhyaline, vary much as 
to shape and size from globose, 8 mic. to irregular oblong, 8 
A 
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-Wj • 
Another collection from Mr. Hunter with same conidial spores has 
the surface coloring of Polyporus mrngiferae. 
The prolificacy of Nature in the production of spores in 
these Ptychogaster forms is almost beyond comprehension. As the 
spores measure about 8 mic., a little calculation shows that this 
specimen has about a million and a half spores. 
LENZITES MUELLERI, FROM DR. J. BURTON CLELAND, NEU SOUTH 
PALES (Fig. 1533).- (Aberrant Lenzites repanda). Pe have perhaps_ 
hundred collections of this common, tropical Lenzites repanda witT 
•ymeniun exactly the type as shown at 
the 
left 
species is remarkably uniform in this 
Lenzites flavida which never develops two specimens 
(Fig. 1532). The 
respect, unlihe its brother 
of the same 
syuenial form. But this specimen from Dr. Clelrnd ( on the right 
Fig,1533) is so different from the usual form that Berkeley may be 
excused for naming it a new species as Daedalea Muelleri. It must 
not be confused, however, with Trametes Muelleri which may be a 
variant of the sane thing, but has small round pores and is more 
fre guen t and con s t an t. 
STEREUM NIGROPUII, FROM OTTO A. REINPING, PHILIPPINES (Fig. 
1531).- Inf undibuliform, with a short stipe. Color (when dried) 
both surffee and hymenium darh, almost blach. Cystidia numerous, 
hyaline mostly blunt, varying as to shape, projecting but little. 
