MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
G. G. LLOYD 
Page 1053 
FEMSJONIA LUTEO-ALBA FROM A. D. COTTON, ENGLAND (Fig. 1958 
and 1959 enlarged ).- This is a rare plant in Europe and has not as 
far as I know been collected in the States. It grows on frondose 
wood (oak, beech, cherry, alder, etc. ) and is but scantily represent¬ 
ed in the museums. It is a question how, to consider the genus 
Femsjonia. It is surely the plant Fries so named though it was 
many years before that conclusion was reached as Fries evidently 
misrecorded it as having globose basidia. Excepting as to basidia 
it answers Fries’ description and no plant known in Europe does that 
has "globose basidia”. Fries never had correct ideas of tremellace- 
ous basidia. As to genus it appears to be monotypic. The texture is 
homogeneous, thus differing from Ditiola and the superior humenium 
removes it from Guepinia which has similar disciform hymenium. The 
texture is not frankly tremellaceous, more firm and "waxy” but the 
component hyphae are similar. The color of the soaked plant is pale 
yellow. Shape turbinate, the hymenium on a concave (upper) disc. 
Outer (sterile )surface minutely white, pubescent, of hyaline project¬ 
ing hyphae under the lens, Basidia furcate, typical. Spores 
(test Bourdot ) 8-10 X 18-31 oblong, subcylindrical, 1-2 guttulate. 
Our record was 8-10 by 20 rather piriform, I do not believe its 
history is all told yet but the following is as far as we have 
traced it. Fries found it at Fernsjo and named it Fernsjonia 
luteoalba. as stated. His description (except basidia) applies ex¬ 
actly. Brefeld well illustrated it and called it Guepinia Fernsjon- 
iana. It had been sent him by Dr. Olesen who found it but once on 
oak. Olsen was satisfied it was Fries’ species but Brefeld put it 
in a different y genus and changed its name. It is Exidia pezizaefor- 
mis of Leveille (co-type at Ke w ) as Fries suspected and Femsjonia 
pezizaeformis, McGinty and future jugglers. It is Ditiola radicata 
(in error) of Q,uelet and Bourdot since corrected by Bourdot to 
Ditiola luteo-alba. It is Ditiola conformis of Karsten, and his ex- 
siccatae, (No.629 ) are about the only ones I saw. in the museums of 
Europe. It is Ditiola Ulicis of English mycology, co-type in 
British Museum. It is Femsjonia luteoalba., Sydow Exsic. No.253, the 
only correctly named specimen I ever noted. 
We are under the belief but we are not positive that the hymenium is 
superior. If it is inferior then the plant must be put in Guepinia. 
PODOCREA ANOMALA FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Fig. I960).- The more specimens we receive of tropical lyrenomy- 
cetes the more confused are our ideas of the limitation of genera. 
This unique specimen appears to the eye as a Xylariaceae, but when 
it is examined it is a Hypocreaceae, at least as to perithecia and 
spores. And it is anomalous as to either. It has the carbonous 
crust of the former and the fruit of the latter and it does not be¬ 
long in any established genus of either. In old times I think it 
would have been called a Hypocrea which Saccardo divided up as far 
as he could .into different subgenera mostly belonging to different 
subfamilies of his artificial classification. While I have heard 
this classification lauded very highly and it no doubt is convenient, 
the genera in Sylloge, based primarily on spore color, septation 
and form appear to me as being largely artificial and a backward step 
from the more natural grouping of Fries. It is the same as if our 
phaenogamic friends should abondon Natural Orders and go back to the 
Linnean system of counting the stamens and pistils. 
