MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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Mouth shield shaped, raised Stem rather obese with valvular enlarge¬ 
ment at base. Capillitium hyaline, 6-6 mic. thick, with few slight¬ 
ly swollen nodes. Spores 6-7 mic, strongly aculeate. 
This belongs close to Tylostoma Leveilleanum in Group 10, 
characterized by the mammate mouth and the large, strongly rough 
spores. In the mammate mouth it agrees with Tylostoma poculatum. 
BROOMEIA ELLIPSOSPORA (Fig. 1941).- We acknowledge from Rev, 
H- A, Junod a fine collection of the above species known only from 
South Africa. We have given figures of it previously. While the 
specimen does not show it, there was undoubtedly a. universal veil 
when young over the entire group of little "puff balls". This com¬ 
mon exoperidium is the distingiushing character of the genus 
Broomeia as explained in Myc. Notes p, 917. 
Jur figure represents the upper and lower surface. The sub- 
iculum is rather thin and the little puff balls impress their form. 
Broomeia congregata, the only other species which also grows in 
South Africa, has a thick stroma, on which the little puff balls are 
seated, 
MELANOGASTBR VARIEGATUS (Fig, 1942 ).- We presented on Plate 
178 a figure of what we called Melanogaster mollis. We had sent it 
to Professor Mattirolo and since have received his reply that it is 
an overripe collection of Melanogaster variegatus. W r e had several 
collections of Melanogaster variegatus in our collection and they 
all had permanent gleba cells and were as hard as rocks and did not 
change much when spaked, Mr, Davis' collection was soft as mush 
when fresh and soaxed and the gleba cells disintegrated. They 
seemed quite different to us but we are willing to defer to Prof¬ 
essor Mattirolo*s much more extended acquaintance with this class 
of plants and we thank him for correcting us. 
DACRYOMITRA LUTEA FROM L. RODWAY, TASMANIA (Fxg. 1943 ),- 
We are thankful for the opportunity to study this. It is the second 
collection made and both were made by Mr. Rodway, in Tasmania. The 
original (No.598) very scanty, is at Kew and pressed flat on a piece 
of paper. We did not take the liberty of trying to examine such 
scanty types. It was said to have globose basidia and was put in 
the genus Gyrocephalus by Massee. We doubted that at Kew for the 
plant has the aspect of Dacryopsis or Dacryomitra and no suggestion 
of the only species of Gyrocephalus known. In fact it is a minia¬ 
ture of Dacryomitra glossoides. The genus Dacryomitra is simply a 
stalked Dacryomyces with an inflated, gyrose head entirely distinct 
from the stalk. But when we come to examine it we are still in 
doubt. There is a narrow, peripheral zone, evidently basidial. It 
stains deep colored with iodine and consists of what' I take to be 
mostly immature, cylindrical basidia. The ripe basidia I found were 
hyaline with two sterigmata. I could not make out the entire basidia 
but I think cylindrical. The spores are hyaline, 5 X 12, cylindrical, 
curved, separated into four cells (3 septate) and typically the 
spores of Dacryomyces and this class of plants. Beneath the thin, 
peripheral, basidial zone is a.broad zone in which are densely im¬ 
bedded globose bodies about 6-8 mic. in diameter and no doubt in my 
mind conidial scores such as are shown in the familiar figure 
