mycological notes 
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SPARASSIS CRISPA PROM REV. A BOUTLOU, REST VIRGINIA (Pig* 
1613) .— I am satisfied this is a plant that has a wrong reputation. 
It is supposed to he common and any popular work on mushrooms will 
tell you how frequent it is and how valuable as an edible snecies. 
Many thousands of fungi reach me hut this must he rare for I have 
not received it a half dozen times. The specimen from Rev. Boutlou 
is a small specimen and is developed from a rhizome, a feature I 
have not seen noted before* It sometimes reaches a large size.. 
At Leiden I saw some specimens in alcohol that were a foot in diame¬ 
ter. The genus Sparassis, as defined by Pries, and the popular 
opinion, I am satisfied from this specimen is an error. The hy- 
menium is not "amphigenous“. It is not “composed of two plates 
fertile on both sides 1 '. The hymenium is on the under side only 
(of this specimen) and the plant does not belong in the Clavariaceae 
but in the Thelephorscene. In short- Sparassis is only a fleshy 
Stereum. It has no cystidia and the spores are hyaline and about 
4X5. 
XYLARIA KEDAHAS PROM T. P. CKIPP, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Pig. 
1614) .- Clubs cylindrical, obtuse, strongly carboncus, black, 
4 mm. thick, 6-8 cm. long, with a rugulose stem, rooting in the 
ground. Surface minutely moriform with the protruding perithecia. 
Spores 4 X 8. 
Xylaria nigripes, the “termite nest" species was suggested 
but a comparison showed this as a bluer, plant while nigripes is of 
much lighter color. The spores arc also very different. Xylaria 
Brasiliensis (cfr. page 895) and Xylaria radicans (page 725) are 
very close species but a comparison of the figures shows to me 
essential differences. Xylaria Kedahae was collected (No.4232) 
on Kedah Peah, Straits Settlements. 
S OH IZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE PROM 
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CHIP?, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 
(Pig, 1615).- It .is rare that this common and cosmopolitan plant 
takes such decided stalks as shown in our figure* They should 
call 
.t a “new species 
There are now fifteen so called species 
recorded in Saceaxdo, We have about three hundred different col¬ 
lections from probably every country in the world and we are able 
to see but one species in the whole lot. 
GLAZIELLA SPLENDENS PROM REV. J. RICK, BRAZIL. The dried 
specimen (Pig, 1616, left) appears collapsed and “hollow" but 
when soaked (same figure, right) it is solid and the flesh is not 
“gelatinous" but soft, fleshy* In fact if this represents 
“Glaziella" then the genus is not essentially different from Sar- 
coxylon. The specimens were sent as “Entonaema lignescens" but 
do not have the appearance to me of Moeller’s figure on page 248 
and are only about one—sixth as large, end surely have no 'sugges¬ 
tion of a Tronic 11 a w . I presume they were the basis of Lntonaema 
mesenterica of Moeller, but in that event they are neither “hollow" 
nor "gelatinous 11 . The genus Glaziella was one of Berkeley’s 
imperfectly known proposals and Moeller did not improve matters 
much when he called it Fntonaema. The spores I measure ar o a 12. 
In this connection we wish to correct our previous statement that 
Berkeley probably intended + o use the word sporophore instead of 
perithecia in his original "description 11 of Glaziella* "Stroma 
subglobose, bright colored; perithecia pale, filled with hyaline 
