MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
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microscope. They do not form a palisade layer hut are irregularly 
home on the ends of the hyp has. The spores, usually five or six 
on each basidia, are sessile. They are quite well represented in 
Thaxter's drawing of Phallogaster, reproduced, page 308, Engler 
and Prantl. 
POLYSTIOTUS MICROLOMA, PROM OTTO A, REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
( Pig. 1507.)This species is distinguished hy its dark color hut 
these are unusually dark, the surface almost jet black, the pores 
pure white with a slightly creamy tinge. The species runs into 
Polystictus affinis which only differs in being of a lighter color. 
We have a collection from Madagascar of which part could he colled 
Polystictus microloma and part Polystictus affinis. The stems in 
these specimens are very short hut sometimes they are an inch or 
more long. 
POLLYPORUS M0LLITE7.TUS, FROM T. HUNTER, WEST AFRICA (Fig. 
1508 )Sessile, the entire plant (dried) pale isabelline color. 
Surface smooth with a very thin crust, spotted hr own evidently 
where bruised when fresh. Context very soft. Pores small (to 
medium) concolorous, somewhat irregular. Spores elliptical. 4 1/2 
8, hyaline, guttulate. We would enter this in Section SOB. It is 
one of those plants remarkable for its soft flesh. Similar in 
color and general nature to frametes floccosus, my first impression 
until I compared was that it was this species, hut the soft pores 
and spores are entirely at variance. 
MUCRONELLA ALBA, PROM J. M. GRANT, WASHINGTON (Pig. 1509).- 
Plants white, about 5 :a. long, caespitose, growing in clusters 
hark, suhiculum none. ~ ' " 1 " 
Spores sub-globose, 6 
on 
Basidia/clavate, persisting on dried specimen. 
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This 
little species 
.gatas figured on page 
as Mucronella 
this 
is exactly tne same 
aggregata.; figured on page 531, excepting it is about six times as 
large. Our enlargement sixfold (Fig.725) could he taken fo 
species natural size. There is a diversity of opinion as to the 
proper classification of Mucronella. Fries held .that the fruit 
hody consisted only of teeth (no suhiculum) and included tne _ 
Ilydnaceae , Hennings considers each "tooth" as a separate, and dis 
tinct plant, and classes it in Clavariaceae. We are inclined to 
lean toward Hennings 1 view. 
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GUEPINIA FISSA, FROM DR. W. DOCTSRS VAN LEEUWEN : JAVA (Flg- 
1510).'- This is a frequent species from the tropics, usually mown 
, s it was illustrated hy Berkeley under the above name. It is, 
however, only a narrow tropical form of Guepinia spathularia, origin- 
; lly named and very common in the States. It has a Javanese nistory. 
Junghulm named it Cantharellus redivivus two years before Berkeley 
nmied it hut Berkeley did not know that Junghulm’s specimens are 
still preserved at Leiden. In early days Guepinias were called 
Cant’ are 11ns. The color of ova? American plant is yellow or sligj.im 
orange yellow. Dr. Docters van Leeuwen 1 s specimens are more or nge 
than usual. Whoever is responsible for the statement in Saccaruo ^ 
that Guepinia. rediviva lia.s the color of Auricularia mesenteries was 
'’hither color hl inc 1 or doing-some had guessing, or prcb< 
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