MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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POLYST ICTUS VELLEREUS FROM PROF. TAKEWO HEMMI, JAPAN (Fig. 1877 )- 
This is exactly the same plant as named by Berkeley from Japan. Of 
course it is only a pale (pure white in these specimens) form of Poly- 
stictus hirsutus, but it is attached by a small base and is worthy of 
a separate name as it only appears to occur in Japan. 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON KRETZSCHMARIA 
Since our article on this genus was published ( Large Pyren. 
2nd Paper ) we have received several collections from correspondents 
and have worked over all the historical material of the Philippines, 
through the kindness of Mr. Merrill. We have also worked over Ellis' 
herbarium and extensive collections from the American topics in the 
New York Botanical Garden and have seen a set of Wright's Cuban col¬ 
lection, determined by Berkeley. 
KRETZSCHMARIA PROXIMA,. Co-type (Balansa, Tonkin) has spores 
10 X 30, I believe it was correctly referred (l.c. ) to Kretzschmaria 
cetrarioides, 
KRETZSCHMARIA TUKBINATA. These are small, sessile, but to a 
reduced base, specimens with a flattened disc that Ellis called 
Poronia turbinata. It probably has other names as Hypoxylon, Surely 
it is not a Poronia, neither is it a good Hypoxylon, kretzschmaria or 
Xylaria. It agrees with Kretzschmaria in shape of the fruit body but 
differs in being subsessile and scattered in its habits. 
In "structure H , white stroma, spores (7 X16 ) and small perithecia im¬ 
bedded in a carbonous crust, it is a Xylaria, In size and subsessile 
habits it is a Hypoxylon of tradition. In shape it is a Kretzschmaria, 
In nothing is it a Poronia, 
Kretzschmaria Pui^garii, Co-type at New York, This, for me, 
is the same as Kretzschmaria lichenoides. Spores are 8X38. 
Kretzschmaria clavus and caenopus, Berkeley's determination, 
Wright, Cuba (as Hypoxylon) are both correct as I understand them. 
KRETZSCHMARIA SPINIFERA (Fig. 1878 & 1879 enlarged). The 
types are in Ellis’ herbarium. It is peculiar in having spiny protuber¬ 
ance in the fruit bodies which are not protruding ostioles. The spores 
are unusually large, 16 X 48. Baker 2112, from Philippines, belongs 
here I think, although spores are smaller. Two collections, one from 
Mexico, the other from the Philippines are all that are known. 
KRETZSCHMARIA KURZIANA (Fig. 1880).- This is quite different 
from other Kretzschmarias in having paler crust and numerous contigu¬ 
ous perithecia. Kretzschmaria truncata (Fig. 1881) appears to be the 
same, but is different in habits. Our figures represent both, 
Montagne's figure (enlarged) of Kretzschmaria heliscus has the same 
appearance, but the plants are very different. Spores of truncata are 
8 X 16. I have an idea that Kretzschmaria Kurziana is a better Poronia 
although it is intermediate and I will consider it more in detail 
under Poronia, It is certainly not the same, as I at one time thought, 
as Kretzschmaria truncata, as it grew, in hard ground and truncata, grew 
on wood. Fungi of such different habits are rarely the same. 
