MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1058 
capiliitium" and the "type 11 specimen has these characters as shown in 
Cooke's figure 117 in Handbook. But the type specimen of Diploderma 
glaucum is Mesophellia, arenaria, as named and well illustrated by 
Berkeley a few years before and has no relation whatever to Link's 
genus Diploderma which was based on unopened Geaster hygrometricus 
and has no "hard, central core". About twenty years ago Mr. Rodway 
sent to Massee a collection of the plant he sends me now (No.534) 
still preserved at Kew, Massee labeled and reported it as "Diplo^- 
derma, glaucum, Cooke and Massee." It is a,true species of Diplo¬ 
derma. as now defined, has no hard, central core and not the slightest 
resemblance to "Diploderma glaucum, Cooke & Massee", type at Kew. 
There has been a lot of bad work done in mycology, but I doubt if 
there ever was another as careless a piece of work as that done by 
Massee with the specimens that were sent to him by Mr. Rodway. 
LYCOPERDON GLOBOSE-PIRIFORME (Fig. 1977) FROM ERNEST KNAEBEL, 
COLORADO: Globose, about an inch in diameter. Sterile base none. 
Cortext (Fig. 1978 enlarged) short, consolidated, scabrous warts. 
Gleba, pale, olivaceous. Capiliitium 4-6 mic. in diameter. Columella 
prominent. Spores globose 4 mic. pale color, smooth. Probably a. 
form of Lycoperdon piriforme, but warts not the same, and it is the 
first large Lycoperdon I ever noted without a sterile base. 
LENTINUS CRINITUS FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Fig. 1979).- White, infundibuliform, with dense, light brown scales. 
Gills narrow, white close, with edges entire. ’ Stipe slender, meso- 
podial, white. Cystidia none. Spores hyaline, 3X6, 
Lentinus species with scales are rather rare. Most are 
velutinate or hairy. This is the first scaly collection we have seen 
from the Philippines excepting Lentinus Elmeri which does not suggest 
it. In adopting a name we select a very old one (Linnaeus, 1763) 
but we would not write Linnaeus after it. Linnaeus raked up a couple 
of old tropical pictures which have no resemblance to each other and 
called them Agaricus crinitus. Fries put the species in Lentinus. 
It being the only tropical Lentinus named in his day, Swartz so re¬ 
ferred a collection from Jamaica which is deposited in the British 
museum. Berkeley (1842) reviewed Swartz's specimens and illustrated 
his Lentinus crinitus with a very good figure that for me is this 
plant. We therefore use the name and leave it to others whether to 
write Linnaeus, Fries, Swartz or Berkeley after it, 
SCLERODERMA MACULATUM FROM M. PIERRE MARTENS, BELGIUM (Fig. 
1980 and 1981 cortex enlarged ).- This is a rare plant in America 
(Cfr. Notes 822, page 960). I know of but two collections and this 
is the first collection I have seen from Europe. It was named by 
Peck and well illustrated but as a variety of Scleroderma verrucosum. 
The character is a thin, smooth, brown cortex which breaks up into 
little aroas as shown in the enlargement (Fig, 1981). Scleroderma 
verrucosum has true scales or rather a scaly peridium which is an 
essentially different idea from this plant. (Fig. 1982 scales en¬ 
larged ) Our books tell us that Scleroderma has a simple peridium 
(no exoperidium ), not double as most puff balls have, but this has a 
thin, smooth cortex, thus vitiating all the old ideas on the subject 
of Scleroderma peridium structure. 
