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N0TE 851 - ARACHNION ALBUM FROM MISS A, V. DUTHIE, SOUTH 
, 5: c, °uth Africa is the most favored locality for the genus 
rachnion. I have received probably a dozen collections from Miss 
^uthie and this is the second where she yiotes - "growing in abundance 1 .’ 
ve never find it in the United States (where it was originally named) 
in abundance, and it is unusual for a collector to find it. The plant 
vV " a& na raed and figured by Schweinitz about a hundred years ago. Then 
Berkeley got it from South Africa and called it Scoliciocarpus tener. 
Then Montagne, from South America, and called it Scoliciocarpus 
Bovista. Both afterwards acknowledged that Scoliciocarpus is the same 
as Arachnion but neither changed the specific name. Then Berkeley 
got it from Australia and called it Arachnion Drummondii. The only 
difference in the above is that the specimens came from different 
countries and in old times each specimen from a new locality was a 
"new species, 1 ' But perhaps we should be more charitable to these 
old namers for they knew not what they did. Their material was so 
scanty they could not tell much about it. There are more specimens of 
Arachnion in this one lot from Miss Uuthie than in every museum, in 
Europe today, 
ROTE 852 - CATASTOMA PEDICELLATUM FROM MISS A. V, RUTH IE, 
SOUTH AFRICA: This is a species of our Southern States and we recorded 
it, Rote 463, from Australia. It now comes in from South Africa, It 
is very difficult to explain the wide distribution of "puff balls", 
ROTE 853 - PHELLORINA INQUINANS FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH 
AFRICA: In my opinion the genus Phellorina really consists of only 
two species, Phellorina inquinans and Phellorina strobilina. The 
former was named by Berkeley from South Africa. Afterwards Montagne 
got it from Forth Africa, and called it Xylopodium Delastrei, Admitt¬ 
ing that there is no difference in the genera and practically none 
in the species, the name was changed to Phellorina Delastrei which we 
have in our previous writings adopted, While we take no stock in the 
"sacred principles of priority" when used as an excuse for name jug¬ 
gling, in a case like this where it involves no "new combination" 
it is only a matter of common right that the original name should be 
used. 
NOTE 854 - HORMOMYCES AURANTIACUS FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, 
SOUTH AFRICA: I think there is but one spe cies of Hormomyces, at 
least that I have ever seen. Compare Myc. Notes, p, 712. Kalch- 
brenner's South African "new species" is undoubtedly the same, as I 
stated in the article cited. 
EVANS, I. B. POLE, SOUTH AFRICA: BROOMEIA ELLIPSOSPORA, A 
fine specimen which will be illustrated in Mycological Notes. 
FAIRMAN, DR. C, E., NEW YORK: Merulius tremellosus - Solenia 
fasciculata - Tremellodon gelatinosum,-- Stereum sericeum - Morchelia 
esculenta - Sclerotina fructigena - Lentinus lepideus - Peziza repanda 
Peziza muralis. 
FORBES, C. N., HAWAII: Xylaria Schweinitzii - ALEURODISCUS 
APICULATUS - Lycoperdon nigrum - Polyporus dictyopus - Fomes senex. 
