036 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
most striking finds during the brief stay in this region, is that of Strobulomyces 
strobilaceus or what apparently is that species. It agrees in macroscopic detail 
with the species as found in North America, excepting that the scales on the 
pileus appear to be slightly more appressed. Unfortunately the microscopic char- 
acters have not as yet been studied, but even should these prove of specific 
difference, this is the first collection of Strobilomyces from tropical Africa unless it 
has been reported in very recent years. The genus heretofore, while widespread 
in temperate Europe and North America, is only known outside of these regions 
from Australia. Subsequently in this same region, representatives of the Aga- 
ricaceous genera Lepiota, Amanitopsis, and Pleurotus were found. The collection 
of these forms is a strikingly different experience from that enjoyed by the writer 
during eight months in British Guiana, South America, for there, although the 
genus Marasmius was copiously represented, but relatively few of the other gen- 
era were seen and none of the Boletaceae of which, aside from Strobslomyces, 
one species was collected at Miamu in Liberia and one or two in the Belgian 
Congo. 
FIRESTONE PLANTATION No. 3 TO GBANGA 
As the crow flies, Gbanga is in a general northeasterly direction from Plan- 
tation No. 3. The first few miles of the journey are mostly through low coun- 
try with a dense forest covering in which a species of Burmannia appears to 
be rather abundant, growing in the deposits of leaf mold. Only a few speci- 
mens of this were collected in the region just left behind, and there they 
grew near the top of a hill in the leaf mold collected between the roots of a 
buttressed tree. At first sight this appears to be inconsistent, — in one locality 
growing near the hill-top, in the other, growing in the low deep forest. Yet 
when the two habitats are compared, both are found to be relatively moist, 
and both have an abundance of leaf mold. The latter factor, however, appears 
to be the more decisive. Near the village of Nickabo Half Town, in moist sandy 
soil, somewhat exposed because of the thinness of the secondary forest, the 
adder’s tongue fern, Ophioglossum sp. grows in relative abundance. Beyond 
Nickabo Half Town, a small village in which bananas, yams, and cassava appear 
to be the main agricultural staples, the land again becomes higher, rolling, 
and well forested. ‘This area is drained by small brooks, some of them very 
picturesque as they fall over the rocks in the deep shade of the forest, or pass 
through little glens. On the bank of one such brook a Secotiwm, apparently 
a new species, was collected. The brooks become fewer, but the country re- 
mains rolling and well forested almost to Lenga Town. The sedge, Mapania, 
rare around Firestone No. 3, becomes more abundant. Again the little poly- 
pore, Laschia is seen on fallen logs, although apparently another species. In 
this forested area a number of other fungi are seen, yet because of the constant 
travelling it is impossible to collect and care for them. A beautiful little Lepiota 
with bright orange stipe, pileus, and annulus was collected. A purple Clavaria 
strongly resembling C. amethystina proved to be too fragile to stand the con- 
stant jarring, and arrived in camp so damaged that it was impossible to make 
