MYCOLOGICAL NOTES C. G. LLOYD Pag© 901 
DALDINIA HIBISCUS (Fig, 1587).- This is the smallest Baldinia 
we have noted. Globose, sessile, about a half cm, in diameter. Sur¬ 
face blade, laccate, Context soft, white with narrow carbonous 
zones. Spores 6 X 12. 
This plant was collected in the Philippines (Merrill 4115) 
and named and published by Hennings as HypoxyIon Hibiscus. Of 
course it would be unbind to comment on the facility with which 
Hennings discovered "new species" without Knowing the elementary 
differences between the "old genera". Me do not Know whether it is 
a valid "new species" or not, as we have not worked over the foreign 
Hypoxylons in the museums and the plant is liable to have been named 
as "Hypoxylon" by others besides Hennings. 
DALDINIA MURRILLII (Fig. 1588).- Plant with a globose head 
and a slender, distinct stipe. Surface black, laccate* Context 
i) dark with darker, carbonous zones. Spores 6 x 12. Among the Dal- 
clinias this is unique in its slender stipe, the only species known 
with a globose, head and slender stipe. There are two collections 
at New York (Nos. 292 and 295) made by Dr. Hurrill in Mexico, In 
addition I found in the Ellis herbarium a single specimen without 
locality which Ellis had referred to Daldinia loculata from u American 
But Daldinia loculata was one of Leveille's discoveries, known to 
every one else as Daldinia coneentrica and the type at Paris has no 
stipe at all. 
DIPLODERMA PARVISPORA FROM DR. J. B. 6LEDAND, NEW SOUTH 
THALES (Fig. 1589).- The genus Diploderma was considered Myc. Notes, 
page 641. The species are of rare occurrence and only known from 
Australia. The proper classification of the genus is in much doubt. 
The spores and greenish gleba suggest phalloids. The general habits 
are hypogeal but the spore mass without cells removes it from the 
true Hymenogasters. 
Plant 2-3 cm. in diameter. Exoperidium about 1 mm. thick, 
rigid, the surface covered with adhering clay. Endoperidium thinner, 
about 1/2 mm. Gleba greenish olive, composed chiefly of a mass of 
spores with scanty, cobwebby, hyaline capillitium. Spores 6X8, 
elliptical, subhyaiine, smooth. This species differs from those 
previously considered in its small spores and greenish gleba. 
HYPOXYLON MALLEOLUS, FROM CHAS. H. BAKER, FLORIDA (Fig.1590) 
Me dislike to publish oh Hypoxylons for we have never looked up the 
historical specimens, and the current names are liable to be wrong. 
However, this very peculiar species was supposed to have been named 
by Berkeley as above and was so known to Ellis, we ;judge from the 
description correctly. The reason we publish now is to place cn 
record the interesting work Mr. Baker has done in tracing it from 
the conidial into the ascus state. The stroma of the conidial state 
is carbonous, not zoned, and the surface is covered with dark, 
olivaceous, conidial spores. Potash solution is colored decidedly 
green by them in mass. Under the microscope they appear hyaline, 
globose, apiculate, 4 mic. in diameter. The surface of the conidial 
species is even and gives no indications of the peculiar markings 
of the mature plant. 
