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in^the Journal of the Linnean Society , Vol. 30, and rcentlv I. B. 
' n ° ]e Evans published a line let of illustrations in the Transactions 
loyal Society of South Africa, Vol.7, 1919. The spores are globose, 
schinul&te■and the stroma is thick. This was the original species 
o t Broomeia and Mr. Evans reports it as fairly common near Pretoria. 
It grows on the ground, usually at the base of Acacia Karoo anf 
not on rotten wood which was the old tradition about it. 
BROOMEIA ELLIPS03P0RA (Cfr. Fig. 1640, specimen from I. B. 
Pole Evans, which came originally from Rev. H. A. Juno cl, Lourenco 
Marques. Also^ compare Myc. Rotes, p. 436, fig. 349).- This is co- 
generic ' r ith the preceding from which it differs in thinner stroma, 
more conical periaia, and markedly in the spores which are elliptical 
and smooth. It has been collected in Portuguese and what was for¬ 
merly German East Africa, but not as yet in Ratal or Cape Colony. 
DIPLOCYSTIS "WRIGHT 11 ( 
j.he__ genus Diplocystis differs from Broorneia 
m having individual exoperidia for each ind 
a universal exoperihium for the 
p.141, F1.15). 
fr. Myc. notes, 
_ as previously stated 
individual puff ball, not 
tire clust e 
er 
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the American 
better 
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me ia 
analogue of the"African genus and it would probabl; 
they were united. The mouths are not as distinct as in the Brooi 
species. The spores 4-5 mic. are smooth or slightly punctate, and 1 
tne ^stroma is rather thin. It grows on the ground, not on rotten 
wood as Berkeley stated. Mr. Brace sent it to me years ago in 
quantities from Bahamas, and it is also known from Cuba ancl Guade¬ 
loupe. Also Spegazzini has probably misrecorded it from Argentina 
as a variety of Broorneia corfgregata. 
Synonyms.- Broorneia guadalupensis, Leveille, Guadeloupe. 
Bo specimen exists but no doubt it is Diplocystis Wrightii. Broorneia 
argentinensis (as a var. of congre, ata, Spegazzini)• Rot known to 
me but the odds are a hundred to one that it is Diplocystis Wrightii. 
Diplocystis guadalupens is (Lev.) KcGinty, a .juggle for Diplocystis 
brightii. Diplocystis Junodii, Pole Evan 
_, Africa, is Broome ia 
ellipsospora. Diplocystis compacta, collabascens and mollis as 
found in Saccardo are unknown species of Catastoma with no more 
resemblance or suggestion of Diplocystis than an English walnut 
has of a lily pad. 
.HYDNUM ( GYRODONTIUM) PITLCHER PROM P. VAST DER 31JL, SOUTH 
AFRICA (Fig, 1641).- The section of Hydnum with colored spores 
is rare. No species occurs in Europe or the States and this is 
the fifth one that has come to my notice. 
Pileus dimidiate, thin, probably white when fresh, but 
reddish dried. Teeth short, a out 1 mm., blunt, dark reddish brown 
when dried. Cyst id ia none. Spores abundant, 3-- X 4-1, smooth, 
colored. 
There is another species cf this section in South Africa 
(Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 597) which differs much from this. Excepting 
in the colored spores this reminds one of Hydnum pulcherrimum. A 
section shows the teeth of a cubgelatinous nature, a feature unknown 
t* me in other Hydnums. The trama is pale, compact and the hymeaiun 
much darker color. 
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POLYSTICTUS GLEADOUII FROM TAKEFO HEHKI, JAPAN (Fig.1643).- 
the first t me we have seen it excepting Masses's type 
