MYC010GICAL NOTES 
C, G, LLOYD 
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color. All three are, however, practically the same species, the 
same general type of plants and context and spores (globose, 4-5 
mic. ). Zonalis and rigidus have reddish bro?/n surface, the former 
zoned. Rugulosus which is much rarer is very similar but has paler 
surface. 
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NOTE 889 - POLYSTICTUS CERVINO-GILVUS PROM OTTO A. REIN- 
KING, PHILIPPINES: The pores of this specimen are yellow. Some 
collections are decidedly reddish. The species run into Polystictus 
flavus through these yellow specimens. There is no basidial hy- 
menium on dried specimens. The hymenium is densely covered with 
projecting hyphae, some of which are thickened, knobbed or incrusted. 
Then they become cystidia,. 
NOTE 890 - HEXAGONA ALBIDA PROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: This is the only white Hexagona and was named from the 
Philippines. The synonymy was first brought together in our Hexa¬ 
gona pamphlet. It has large, multicellular bodies on the hymenium 
called (with an elastic stretching of the term) setae. An incon¬ 
gruous genus Elmerina has been based on these hairs, but we are 
strongly opposed to such genera. 
NOTE 891 - XjCYLABlA~TIMORENSIS PROM OTTO A. REINKING, 
PHILIPPINES: This was named but recently from the Island of Timor 
(Cfr, p. 896, fig, 1570 ). It is most peculiar with a thick, black, 
pannose base and short, regular club with brown cuticle. It grows 
on dead branches. The ’“types" were immature but this collection 
has ripe spores (8 X IS). The ripe plants are not so bright color 
as immature ones but it does not change much. 
NOTE 892 - MARASMIUS EQ,UICRXNIS PROM OTTO A. REINKING, 
PHILIPPINES: In the exhaustive account of the "horse-hair blights" 
by Professor Petch (Annals, Peradmxya, Vol*S, p„ 41) Marasmius 
equicrinris is given as the most frequent species in the East pro¬ 
ducing this common, tropical rhizomorph known as horse hair blight. 
He also recognized two other species, Marasmius obscuratus and 
Marasmius coronatus. Which if the three is responsible for these 
threads it would be futile for me to guess. In addition to the 
three species that Petch recognized, fifteen so-called species of 
Marasmius have been promulgated by the "new species" promoters, said 
to produce horse-hair blights. As Petch, who has given the subject 
much study, virtually acknowledged that he could not tell anything 
about them from descriptions, I most assuredly would not attempt to 
do any further guessing on the subject, except to make one guess 
that is pretty safe, viz: the whole eighteen are about the same 
thing. 
NOTE 893 - POLYSTICTUS AFFINIS PROM OTTO A. REINKING, 
PHILIPPINES: As to shape and stipe attachment. Polystictus xan- 
thopus as to color of the stipe. It is a case where Nature is 
playing a trick on the systematist. 
NOTE 894 - XYLARIA NIGRIPES FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: There is no question but this is as above, growing on a log. 
with same shaped club and small spores (4 X 6), And yet the species 
