MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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(Fig. 1642) at Kew v-hich came from India. It is a pure white species 
with soft pubescence and minute pores. It is close to Polystictus 
velutinus hut is more rigid, mere on the order of Trametes. I be¬ 
lieve it is a good species. 
POLYPORUS ARBN9S0BASUS FROM P. VAN DER BIJL, SOUTH AFRICA 
(Fig. 1643).- Pileus about three inches in diameter, globose with 
a thin cuticle. Color (dried) dark, fuliginous. Flesh firm, pale 
isabelline. Stem short, prolonged underground into a sclerotium- 
like body of agglutinate sand. Pores small, round, trnmetoid. 
This must be rare as I Judge that Mr. Van der 3i.11 found 
only one specimen as he sent me only a half specimen. It should be 
added to Section 38 of Ovinus. Another similar plant has been col¬ 
lected in Africa, Polyporus Cfoetzii (Cfr. Synopsis, Ovinus, page 74, 
Fig. 496) but that has a true sclerotium and large pores. The f:.ls 
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sclerotium of this is only sand 
known specimen with such a body 
our Ovinus pamphlet. 
agglutinated and the only other 
is 
Polyporus tuberaster. Fig. 509 in 
SARCOSCYPHA CRUCIATA (Fig. 1644).- In Clinton's herbarium 
there is a very interesting plant from Dr. Torrey. It was found 
on the old Doctor's table after his death, and the source is un¬ 
known. It was sent to Clinton and it- is certainly very rare. I 
have misplaced my notes but I think Clinton referred it as to genus 
to Tremella. I supposed it to be a yellow Guepinia, but when I 
came to examine the little frustule I brought home I found it to be 
an Ascomycete. I sent the photograph and frustule to Dr. Seaver 
and he advises me that he refers it to Sarcoscypha cruciate, which 
Fries named from Sweden, and that the only American record Anown to 
him is a plant from Bethel, Colorado, which Bill 
.s 
named 3arcoscypha 
alpina. It is also 
recorded from Minnesota by 
Miss 
Hone, under the 
name Sarcoscypha prostrata. The photograph was Mindly made for me _ 
by direction of Mr* W. L. Bryant. This, in connection with the main 
feature that it is yellow 
to be recognized if found 
and appears tremellaceous, vail enable it 
again. But if it is gelatinous as I 
see how it can be classed as 3arcoscypha. 
is that old Dr. Torrey should find this 
rare plant forty-seven years ago and that it should remain p: 
cally unknown all these years. Dr. Torrey was very prominent in 
thought it was, 
But how 
I can not 
strange it 
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but 
T"> c. 
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left few footprints in mycologica_ 
gi to Schweinitz and I believe a few uo 
Two of the plants he sent to schweinitz are 
rather one is probably misknown. Another is 
unknown to 
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early American botany 
sands. He sent a few 
Muhlenberg, 
this day, or 
unique little Polyporus pocuius which for so many years passed as 
a sphaeria. I only recall one of Berkeley's records based on Dr. 
Torrey. He reports the rare Xylaria pedunculata from near St. Louis 
and I believe there is no other record in America, and the specimen 
is not found in Berkeley's herbarium. I now know three additional 
collections of Xylaria pedunculata but as yet they have not been 
published. 
ISARIA CRINITA FROM DR. CH. BERNARD 
JAVA (Fig. 1645).- 
I imagine these wasps with slender filaments are not rare In warn 
countries, and were figured about one hundred and fifty years ago. 
But it has no name in mycology for 
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author took it for a "new 
