MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G, LLOYD 
Page 1034 
KRETZSCHMARIA LICHENOIDES IN THE UNITED STATES (Eig. 1882 ),- 
In the New York Botanical Garden is a fine collection of Kretzschmaria 
lichenoides from Dr, R. P, Burke, Montgomery, Ala. I am confident it 
is tne only collection of Kretzschmaria,ever made in the United States. 
Spores are 9 X 32. 
KRETZSCHMARIA ? PUSILLA (Pig. 1883).- The regular globose 
form and distinct stipe would, we think, remove this from Kretzschmaria 
but it is a question where to put it. If named in the museums of 
Europe it was no doubt as Hypoxylon and until the foreign species of 
Kypoxylon are worked out and located it is not well to form conclus¬ 
ions . The section (Fig. 1884 enlarged) shows a little white stroma 
and the spores are 8 X 28-32. It is only known to me from the type, 
Nicaragua. 
Kretzschmaria rugosa named by Earle from Saint Kitts is 
Xylaria haemorrhoidalis, or Xylaria tuberiformis if that is different. 
There are little white rings around some ostioles but I do not attach 
much importance to that feature now in classification. It has, how¬ 
ever, no suggestion of a Kretzschmaria and the author should have 
known more of the genera at least before indulging in this kind of work, 
Kretzschmaria Pechuelii. A specimen from Angola at New York, 
supposed to be the co-type is a distinct species, but does not agree 
with "description" as it is sessile and has no stipe at all. Spores 
are 12 X 28. Specimen (Yates 103) so determined from the Philippines 
is entirely different and is in my opinion large (12-16 X 24-28) 
spored form of Kretzschmaria cetrarioides. 
KRETZSCHMARIA MAURITANICA from G, H. Cunningham, New Zealand 
(Fig. 1885 ).- This is the same as Kretzschmaria caenopus and probably 
best held as a.small spored form. Spores in this collection 8 X 16. 
In addition it will be noted that the heads of this collection are 
more hemisphaerical (not flattened ) than they are usually in other 
species. In all the essential characters it agrees with Kretzschmaria 
caenopus but smaller spores. 
A CURIOUS GASTEROMYCETE ( ? ) 
DUBIOMYCES VIRIDIS (Fig. 1886).- While I was working at Kew 
on the Gasteronycetes in the spring of 1911 I received from G. Clyde 
Fisher some specimens that had been collected on living grass 
( Chusquea ) in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica by Dr, D. S. Johnson. As I 
did not believe they were a Gasteromycete, certainly not any recogniz¬ 
ed genus, I sent them to Miss Annie Lorrain Smith at the British 
Museum, thinking perhaps they were in her department. She returned 
them to me and insisted they belonged in my department. They have 
been lying around without a name ever since. In examining them recent¬ 
ly I found a very young specimen (Fig. 1887 enlarged) with an entire 
peridium, hence I think they are technically Gasteromycetes when 
young, although I do not believe they have any true relations to other 
Gasteromycetes. The gleba, which is greenish, dry, forms a thin layer 
over the sterile base, as well shown in our enlarged section (Fig. 
1889), It consists mostly of globose, smooth, pale greenish spores, 
1 6-8 mic. in diameter. Many can be seen attached to slender, hyaline 
hyphae that proceed apparently from the sterile base. 
