Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

smooth. Basidia (teste Bourdot), globose, cruciate. Spores globose,
3^-4 mic., hyaline, smooth.
The plant grows caespitose in the earth from a common, mycelial
base. It was named (Note 226, Letter 54) as Stereum cuneatum,
Fig. 748
but on receipt of better specimens from Mr. Nelson, I suspected it of
being a Tremellodendron, and sent specimens to Rev. Bourdot,
France, who found the basidia, characteristic of this genus. It is the
only yellow Tremellodendron known to me. Atkinson describes
one from North Carolina (T. aurantium), which, however, from the
description, is different in form and spores.
ISARIA FLABELLIFORMIS (Fig. 749). This is another
mysterious plant that we find often in the early season, growing on
frondose wood. It was named by Schweinitz first as Merisma nigripes,
Fig. 749
and afterwards, when he claimed to have found perithecia, he illus-
flabelliformis. If it ever
trated with crude cut and named it Sphaeria
has perithecia it would be called Xylaria flabelliformis now, and is
so compiled in Saccardo. While it is a common plant with us, we
think no one but Schweinitz ever claimed to have found any but
conidial spores. I have often observed it, and I never saw it develop
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