MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C.G. LLOYD 
Page 987 
mucilaginous mass of spores 
Protubera Maracuja 
writes me it is not rare. 
only, 
is known 
from Brazil only. Rev. Rick 
PROTUBERA AFRICANA FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH AFRICA 
(Fig.1750).- Peridium thick 
three layers. The outer smooth, thin, 
and 
intermediate layer, 
nature as the volva 
gelatinous, about 3 mm. consisting of 
pale brown, the 
gmous and a thick, soft, gelatinous, pale 
In every feature the peridium is of the same 
of a phalloid. (Fig. 1751 enlarged). Gleba mass 
inish 
olive, firm, comnact 
, __, minutely porous 
lens consists of hollow chambers 
res 
pect to that 
Soores like a 
filling the interior gre^ 
to the eye. Its structure under the 
with gelatinous, hyaline walls, analogous in every 
Rhizopogon excepting that the wails are gelatinous. 
Phalloid, 2 4- X 5 pale, greenish, smooth, 
A second Protubera from South Africa, the genus heretofore 
only known from Brazil, is most interesting. The African species 
differs' in not having the tramal plates which is so important that 
of 
( No.233 
) 
a new genus could be based on it. Miss Duthie found this 
in damp, clayey soil. As it has a delicate rooting system I presume 
it grew on the surface. 
CORDYCEPS AUSTRALIS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILBR, AFRICA (Fig. 175U). 
There is a large, black ant in tropical Africa that illustrates the 
old saying lr holding on like grim death. " When it becomes infected it 
lock.3 its mandibles firmly on a twig and remains attached after death 
when the Cordyceps develops. A half dozen specimens were sent me by 
Mr. Gossweiler and every one had attached itself firmly to a twig. 
One specimen sent by Mr. Gossweiler was in the Botrytis stage, forming 
a light brown powdery growth that developed from the sutures of the 
body. It consists of slender hyphae, no spores having developed on 
this specimen. Our lower figure represents this stage, natural size. 
The Cordyceps develops from the prothorax segment, usually 
one on each insect but there were two in one case. The stem is black, 
filiform, an inch to an inch and a half long. Head is globose, l\ mm. 
in diameter, light brown, with even surface. I do not like to cut 
the few heads I have to examine the spores. As to a name, while we 
refer it to a species illustrated by Moeller, we suspect it is the 
same species as Cordyceps myrmecophila, but it is much larger and of 
different shape. Cordyceps sphecocephala (Myc. Notes p. 544, Fig, 746 
which is a well known species on wasps, is very close, but on compari¬ 
son quite different in shape of head, color and thickness of stem. 
Cordyceps myrmecophila, collected by Cesati in old Italy (Brixiae ) 
seems very close to this species and grows on ants. An original col¬ 
lection (Fig. 1753) is in Tulasne's herbarium and seems to have been 
first proposed as Hypocrea ( on the label ). It is much smaller than 
this African plant and with ovate head, but the ants were smaller. It 
is in most museums for the collection of Cesati was distributed 
(Rabenhorst 719. ) _ Ansl&ilar collection was distributed (Rabenhorst 
3649) from Uhl, Brazil, on bees. Tulasne considered Cordyceps myrme¬ 
cophila the same as Cordyceps sphecocephala, which to me appears 
doubtful. We refer this African plant to the South American species 
on the strength of Moeller’s account and figure. The head is more 
globose which as far as wo note is the only difference. 
