MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1057 
PTERULA INCISA FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES (Fig. 1974 
enlarged. ).— Our enlarged figure describes it better than we can. 
It is a white plant, about a cm. high and grew on wood. We gave 
Myc. Notes No. 60, figures of all Pterulas wb found in the museums 
but surely not this. The acute, incised branches suggest a brush. 
We are not sure this is a Pterula and I do not believe any one else 
can tell from a dried plant where the basidia (or spores even ) are 
not found, it may be a "Tremellodendron", in fact it has a sugges¬ 
tion. of this, genus but differs in habits from our United States 
species which are the only ones really known. It is a sad fact that 
in.these modern days when genera are based on basidia ( not found on 
dried specimens usually) it is not possible to refer specimens, with 
confidence even to genera. 
PHYLLOMYCES MULTIPLEX FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Fig. 1975).- In the first lot of fungi collected in the Philippines 
(1835), by Hugh Cuming, was an unusual thing which Berkeley labeled 
"Xylaria multiplex" but I did not note whether as a new species or a 
reference (miss ) to the plant named by Fries. I did not examine it 
but questioned its being a Xylaria at all and certainly not Xylaria 
multiplex. Thefce specimens:, from Mr, Reinking are the first I have 
since seen and I believe they are the same thing. We present a 
photograph of the ’'type" herewith. We soaked out Mr. Reinking’s 
plant and find it as we suspected not a Xylaria, and possibly not a 
fungus. When dry it is black and brittle but when soaked and sec¬ 
tioned not carbonous. It belongs to the Discomycetes although I get 
no clue to any genus in this group at all suggesting it. The plant 
is foliaceous and best shown in our figure. The hymenium ia a pal¬ 
isade layer of asci and filiform paraphy&es both very dark. Spores 
are narrow elliptical, hyaline, about 3 X 6, eight in each ascus. 
As we do not know a genus named for it we invent one. There is a 
possibility that the lichen men have claimed this but it appears to 
me to have the fruit of a fungus. There is another specimen at Kew 
from the Philippines ( Cumings 2218 ) that Berkeley named Xylaria fulvo 
-lanata. Probably I think this is a narrow lobed form of same thing 
but an examination should be made of it, 
DIPLODERMA CRETACEUM FROM L. RODWAY, TASMANIA (Fig. 1976).- 
Globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, pure white. Exoperidium about 1/4 
mm. thick smooth, chalky in appearance, closely adhering to the en- 
doperidium. Endoperidium about l/4 mm. thick, the context dark but 
the inner face pearly white. Gleba pale greenish, powdery, consist¬ 
ing of a few spores mixed with much cellular debris and imperfect 
thread fragments, representing the capillitium. Spores elliptical, 
subhyaline, smooth, obtuse with a minute pedicel at the other end. 
This was sent to me by Mr. Rodway as; Diploderma glaucum as determined 
for him by Massee. For the absolute carelessness and inattention, 
that was prevalent during Cooke and Massee’a regime, read this story. 
"Diploderma, Link. Diss. 2, 44" was baaed on an unopened Geaster 
hygrometricus, specimen still at Berlin. It has no "hard, central 
nucleusi r "Diploderma, glaucrum, Cooke and Massee" was described 
(Grev. 15, 99) from a specimen, Wintle, Scamander River, Australia, 
still preserved at Kew. "It differs from Mesophellia in the distinct, 
double peridium. The hard, central nucleus is^ connected with the 
inner wall of the inner peridium by the radiating threads of the 
