MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. Cl. LLOYD 
Page 892 
• POLYPORUS DU ZONAL US , PROM L. J. K. BRACE, BAHAMAS (Pig.1554 )- 
Pileus sessile, about Sudan brown* Surface oppressed, fibrillose, 
strongly zoned with raised zones. Context brown. Pores minute, 
fuliginous brown. Setae none. Spores hyaline. 
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Owing to the very extensive collections of polypores made in 
he nest Indies and preserved in the New York Botanical Garden, I was 
hardly expecting anything novel from this region. With its strongly 
marked fibrillose zones I know but one plant that suggests this, 
Promotes heteroporus of the East, but this is not a Trarnetes. It 
goes in Section 95 and from the color there is a suggestion of the 
gilvus crowd, but this has no setae. The spores I do not find surely 
but what I do take to be spores are small and allantoid. 
• XYLARIA SCHWEINITSII, PROM W. A. SCARPS, NEW ZEALAND (Pig. 
1555-).- Xylarias of the pclymorpha group are characterized by the 
hard, solid, white stroma^ rugulose (in drying) surface, medium to 
large spores (6-9 -X 20-32 ;. The perithecia do not protrude at all, 
which is the difference between it and the anisopleura group. There 
is a form common in warm countries that was named Xylaria Sckwsinit- 
zii by Berkeley and could be considered a form of Xylaria polymorpha. 
It is so constant in its general shape as shown in our figures that 
it merits a name. 
Xylaria anisopleura. is similar excepting the perithecia are 
slightly moriform and the spores average larger, reaching 40 mic. 
Xylaria cast ore a' is the same as Xylaria Schweinitsii but 
has small spores, about 0-10 mic. 
Xylaria rugosa, named by 8accardo from Africa, Xylaria curta 
by Pries from Hawaii, Xylaria, favosa by Cooke from Cuba, Xylaria. 
ellipsospora by Cooke from Tasmania and Xylaria cor rug at a. by Patou— 
iHard from New Caledonia, all appear to me to be Xylaria SckweInitz- 
ii. Our previous figure .(page 635) as Xylaria Scnweinirzii we now 
think is an error and should have been named xylaria. anisopleura. 
Xylaria polymorphic., so common in Europe and the Stares, is . 
absent or at least is’rare in the tropics in its usual shape. 
are convinced however that Xylaria Schweinitsii represents die fOj.m 
it takes in the tropics. 
The figure to the left is the type of Xylaria Scnweinitzii, 
the middle figure, specimens from ?. Van der Bi^jl, Souini Africa^, ^ 
that to the right, somewhat unusual < s to shape, from v. A. sCeric-, - 
New Zealand. 
XYLARIA FURCATA, PROM PROFESSOR T. PETCH, CEYLON (Fig. _ 
1553).— This xr. s named dichotoma by Leveille, bur being a. dupli¬ 
cate \ 7 ..n changed to furcate by Pries. It semis to be. a strongly 
characterized species and was well illustrated by von Kohnel, 
Professor Petclf advises me that it grows with Xylaria nigripes on 
termite nests. Ii is an Eastern species, unknown from tne AiisriCcv^ 
ironies. It has vein 7 " small spores, 3.ike those of Xylaria nigripes, 
hardly over 4 mic. long (2-3 thick). 
