C. G. LLOYD 
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MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
gelatine % It was set up by some foreign compositor who did not 
understand English or Pidgin Latin. 'Ye have already commented on 
the vagaries of the individual who habitually cited Pries as "J u . 
Y/hat Berkeley probably wrote was - ’'Stroma subglobose, bright colored: 
perithecia pale: filled with hyaline gelatine 1 '. While we might ex¬ 
cuse a foreign printer for getting his punctuation wrong ws feel 
there was no excuse for Cooke to base his classification on a typo¬ 
graphical mistake when he had the specimen before him. Plants of 
this family with the "perithecia filled with gelatine" would, be 
about as curious a phenomenon as an apple tree bearing apples like 
potatoes. 
XYLARIA HYOSURUS PROM JAS. R. WEIR, CUBA (Pig. 1617).- The 
types both at Kew and Paris are immature but the species is marked 
by its simple form and absence of stipe. I do not think the spores 
given in Saccardo as 10 mic. could have been found in the "types". 
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types. 
I make them from Mr. Weir's specimens short and broad, about 
The mature plants (Fig. 1617) are not as sharp pointed as the 
Xylaria microceras is close if not the same species. 
additional notes on cordyceps 
Mr. Edwin Oheel has called our attention to a valuable article 
S. 
Olliff and published in the 
on Australian Cordyceps written by A. 
Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, June, 1895« We had not 
previously seen this article and it has also been missed by the Cordy 
ceps compilers, Massee and Saccardo. Mr. Olliff gives excellent 
figures of the species he considers and from the entomological side 
corrects what were no doubt erroneous views of the classification 
of the hosts. 
The large burrowing larvae of Australia on which Cordyceps 
are developed are probably all the larvae of the Lepidopterous genus 
Pielus, which pupate in burrows in the ground, and not of the genus 
Charagia, which live and. undergo their metamorphoses in wood. Prom 
the systematic account of Cordyceps, however, Mr. Olliff seems to 
to be very local in his view and his species, we believe, should 
mostly be referred to others. 
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t CORDYCEPS SCOTTIANUS (Pig. 1618).- This which was named by 
Mr. Olliff, or.Berkeley in manuscript it is said, appears to be good. 
The Cordyceps itself in its attachment to the host and general ap¬ 
pearance is that of Cordyceps ophioglossoides and probably could not 
be told apart if sent separate from the host. It is the same appar¬ 
ently as "Cordyceps ophioglossoides on a locust", Myo. Notes, p. 
809. As the plant in Australia, from a larva, has a name, it is 
best to use it and consider it different from Cordyceps ophioglos¬ 
soides which is known in Europe and with us only on Elaphomyces. 
The above, however, is the only one of Mr. Olliff 'a species 
that appears good to us, judging only from his figures and descrip¬ 
tions . 
Cordyceps Cronstonii has the appearance of being Cordyceps 
nilitaris although the Australian host is evidently different from 
the English host. Cordyceps pieli appears to be a broken specimen 
of Cordyceps Gunnii. Cordyceps trictenae is surely the same as the 
original specimen of Cordyceps Taylori in Berkeley’s herbarium at 
