KYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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being u Hypoerea - 
either as Atkinson lias 
surface 
on 
the 
ECHINODOTHIS TUBSRIPORMIS (Fig. 1654).- Plant globose, 1-2 cm, 
in diameter, yellowish, becoming black when old- 
stems of Arundinaria in our southern States* Sir 
sisting of three layers in a section 
than the outer. Perithecia qui 
on the surface in groups and 
It 
‘CTaC 
grous on the 
ooxuuk; yellowish, con- 
, the inner white and more pithy 
large, about one mm, long, seated 
giving the head an 
j. 
eohinuletu 
appearonce 
v/hich may be likened to the fruit of the sycamore* spores are hyaline 
filiform, septate and at maturity separate into many secondary spores. 
This plant is quite common on the cane reed of cur Southern 
States. It was first collected by Ravenel. named Hypocrea tuberi- 
formis and distributed in Ray, Exsiccatne. Nos. 723 and 52 
Sifhen 
Atkinson noted the spores were filiform he first proposed to call 
it Hypoerealla tuberiformis and some years afterward when lie noted the 
perithecia are free he proposed for it the genus Echinodothis. Our 
photograph (Pig. 1654) is from a fine specimen in the New York 
Botanical Garden of Atkinson 1 s collection. 
ECHINODOTHIS ORCHIDEACSARUM PROM REV. J* RICK, BRAZIL (Pig. 
Surface 
soft , white pith and a 
1655).- Globose, 1 cm, in diameter, bright yellow color, 
tubercular, stroma consisting of a central, soft 
hard, yellow outer layer. The perithecia are very minute, hardly 
visible to the eye and are seated in patches only on the tubereules. 
They are obovate or pear-shaped, obtuse, partially imbedded and 
little over half free* spores hyaline, filiform, septate* This 
species is only known from Rev. Rick’s collection in Brazil* It 
grows on the dead stem of epiphytal orchid. In working with it I 
note a curious color change of the tissue, changing to purple in 
potash solution. I have but little doubt but that u Hype ere i] a schizo- 
stachyii' 1 , named by Hennings from the Philippines, is exactly the 
same thing though Hennings claims that this has imbedded perithecia. 
I saw a specimen at New York but did not cun or examine it. Probably 
also “Dusiella tnberiforrais”, as illustrated by Hennings, is the seme 
thing but not as named by Berkeley. And probably it has other 
names in the museums. 
CALOCERA PALMATA PROM MISS ANN HIBBARD, MASSACHUSETTS (Pig* 
1656).- If this is other than a dilated form of the common Calocera 
cornea, which I doubt. Calocera cornea (Pig. 1658) is usually 
simple though sometimes branched. As to color, habits, etc* Calocera 
palm at a is exactly the same as Calocera cornea. As the figure does 
not show the shapes well, of the clubs, we present- s. figure (Pig-,1657) 
slightly enlarged to show this feature. Every one will find the 
common little Calocera cornea for it is frequent- but the dilated form 
is rare. Calocera is liable to be mistaken for a Clavaria, but it 
is gelatinous in its nature and it has furcate basidia. it is very 
closely related to Leoryomyces, Guepinia, etc. and not at all except 
in form to the C lav arias. 
DACRYOMYCES AUSTRALIA PROM P. VAN DER BIJL, SOUTH AFRICA 
(Pig. 1659).- Cerebriform with gyrose lobes. Color clear egg yellow. 
