mycological notes 
C, G. LLOYD 
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POLYSTICTUS ANOMALOSUS FROM T. F. CHIP?, SINGAPORE (Fig. 
1849 ).— In the tropics there occur generic types that do not grow 
m Europe and do not fit into the Friesian genera. They could be 
called new genera, but that would only confuse the subject. This 
plant suggests Polystictus pinsitus, but- only in the large shallow 
pores. In color, texture and general nature it is widely divergent, 
ihe color is dark brown, about warm sepia. Texture fleshy, brittle. 
Pores are shallow large and pore walls black when dry. Spores I do 
not find. 
As we know no other plant at all similar we shall have to 
class it in a new section, 1X9 bis. But in reality it is not a 
Polystictus, It was sent as Favolus but does not accord with other 
Favoli as well'' as it does with Polystictus, 
PHYLLOTREMELLA AFRICANUS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig. 
1850 ).- A true tremellaceous plant with gills is something new and 
rather startling. 'When I first noted the specimen dried I thought 
it was a little gelatinous Pleurotus like P. striatulus, but when 
soaked it had the consistencjr, color and appearance of an incipient 
"Jew's ear." A section shows a hyaline, translucent, gelatinous 
upper layer and a darker, lamellate hymenium. The gills are obtuse 
and radiate from the base. As I could not make out the basidia I 
sent it to Professor Buller who states: "The basidia were not clearly 
seen but I gained the impression they are more or less club shape 
and project like those of the Agaricaceae. The fruit body is un¬ 
doubtedly gelatinous, the hyphae of the flesh and tissue being well 
separated by a thick, gelatinous medium made up of confluent outer 
cell walls." We present (Fig. 1851) a section through the flesh and 
gills which was kindly made for us by Professor Buller. 
We have tremellaceous Merulius, tremellaceous Hydnums, trem- 
ellaceous Clavarias, but I think this is the first truly tremella¬ 
ceous agaric that is known. Specimens on very rotten wood (No,211), 
Our figures represent the plant natural size, dried and soaked, a 
single specimen ( Fig.1852 ) enlarged sixfold and a sectional drawing' 
made by Professor Buller. 
XYLARIA NODULOSA FROM REV. J. RICK, BRAZIL (Fig. 1853),- 
Stem growing in the ground (? ), long, 4-6 inches, much branched. 
Perithecia large, free, singly on the branches, or confluent not 
covering the rhachis. Spores large, 7 X 38-40, rather acute at 
both ends. 
This is very much larger but grew in the same general manner 
and has the same perithecia as Xylaria luxurians (Xylaria Notes p.29 
fig. 1348) and at first we were so disposed to refer it. But the 
very much larger spores seem to us to forbid the reference. 
CYCLOMYCES ALBIDA FROM E. D. MERRILL, PHILIPPINES (Fig. 
1854).- Hexagona albida (Cfr. Syn. Hexagona p. 29 fig. 314) takes 
three hymenial forms, hexagonal, lenzitoid and very rarely cyclomy- 
coid. The first two we have collected in Samoa from the same 
mycelium (Cfr. l.c. fig. 313 and 314) , The cyclomycoid form is 
very rare and this specimen (Ramos 36488) is the first we have seen 
from the Philippines. The only other specimen we ever saw is at 
Kew, collected in Borneo and named Hexagona Cesati (alleged as by 
Berkeley. ) 
