HYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 899 
though this or similar plants have been named four times. Berkeley 
named in mss. a specimen from India, Tranetes Burchellii, which was 
dug up and published by Cooke * Currey published the same thing from 
India as Polyporus incertus and gave a figure of it. Berkeley 
published Trametes Mexicana from Mexico on a very poor specimen which 
is similar if not the same. And Daedal©a Bowmanii from Australia is 
a plant in the same order. All these collections are inadequate. 
They are probably the resupinate portion of some pileate species. 
All are of the sane nature characterized by the large pores and 
thin but rigid walls. As to context color the specimen is more isa- 
belline than white, but for the present we would class it in the 
resupinate white section (140). 
ARRHYTIDIA FLAVA FROM MISS ANN HIBBARD, MASSACHUSETTS (Fig. 
1580).- As far back as 1850 Berkeley so named a plant on pine from 
Curtis, North Carolina. These are the first we have ever seen ex¬ 
cepting the types in Europe (Fig. 1581). It is really an effused 
(resupinate) species but the margin had loosened and turned up and 
Berkeley conceived that it was related to Peziza, stating, however, 
“without asci“. It is an evidently gelatinous plant and I found it 
the simplest proposition to see the forked basidia in the type. But 
the two words - “without asci“ are a graphic example of Berkeley's 
troubles with the microscope at that date. He sent a specimen to 
Fries (still preserved at Upsala) and he examined it under the micro¬ 
scope and correctly classed it as close to Dacryomyces, stating, 
however, “sporis in apice solitariis". It seems strange to us that 
Fries did not notice the furcate basidia for they are objects most 
easily seen nowadays, but of course the imperfections of microscopes 
then must be taken into account* Although Fries published it 
Berkeley did not know it apparently, for in his last work he places 
Arrhytidia next to Merulius (sic). 
Arrhytidia has the basidia and spores of Dacryomyces•and can 
be best defined in two words as effused Dacryomyces* It is not so 
effused when soaked up (Fig. 1580) and it is doubtful if it can be 
held as different from Dacryomyces. In 1885 Cragin, a Kansan ama¬ 
teur, who got a little smattering of mycology and then proceeded to 
exhibit it in the usual way by discovering neym^enera and species, 
discovered the genus Ceracea* Ye have.not seen?the specimen ..but 
there is no doubt it is the same gbhus as Arrhytidia. Ceracea 
Lagenheimii, named from South America, is evidently Arrhytidia flava. 
The “structure", basidia and spores of Arrhytidia, Guepinia, Dacryo¬ 
myces and all this class of plants show little difference, and given 
that it is pale yellow color, our figures are all that is necessary 
to describe it. T/e present a figure (1581) of the type, dried, 
and photographs'of specimens (Fig. 1580) soaked brid dried] from 
Miss Hibbard. 
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ZYLARIA C0RNIF0RHIS (Fig. 1502 K-* Club cylindrical, ob¬ 
tuse, black with an even surface g Uriiikied in drying, stipe short 
from a thick, pannose base * • 1 - Stroma solid, white. Ostioles not 
visible to the eye . spores 4-5 X lo^is, sometimes specimens with 
.spores shorter and broader, 5X8, and I have specimens with spores 
6-7 X 12-14 • 1, ; . 
It usually grows singly on logs a$d sticks 
tose. Usually cylindrical, sometimes flattened* 
i Rarely caespi 
Usually simple 
