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any perithecia. Fries, who was no doubt only guessing from Schweinitz'
figure, started the story that it is the conidial state of Xylaria
corniformis, and while there is not the slightest possibility of that
being true, it was accepted and published by Ellis in his N. A. Pyrenomycetes
as "an abortive form" of Xylaria corniformis. The plant
is not rare with us, and I have it also from Africa, but I do not know
it in Europe. There have been two other bulls made in connection
with it, both Peck and Montagne having discovered that it was a
"new species" of Thelephora (sic).
Peck called it Thelephora rosella,
and Montagne (from South America), Thelephora liliputiana.
That Isaria flabelliformis is the conidial state of a Xylaria is
possible, even probable, but the ascigerous form is not known, at least
as to specimens, and those who find it growing should mark the
place and leave it, and if it develops a later stage, I should be very
glad to receive specimens.
SPORES OF CALVATIA VERSISPORA (Fig. 750). "With
regard to Calvatia versispora, the spores are very irregular, and
some of them are more or less fusiform, as I have drawn, but I
Fig. 750
should not tall such "apiculate." None of the spores seem to have
a definite, regular, apiculus such as one gets in many Lycoperdons,
but some of them appear to have a blunt stalk, as I have indicated.
Are not the spores immature? They appear so to me, and distorted
by mutual pressure. The very large, irregular, yellowish cells, of
which 1 have drawn three (two apparently attached), are not spores
but seem to be detached, sterile cells." Letter from Miss E. M.
Wakefield.
XT
C V ia
fJ xT
versisP ra is a Japanese species. Compare Letter
No. 56, Note 247, Figure 707. The plant was published as Calvatia
versipora I presume Calvatia versispora would better indicate
the idea (though both are pidgin Latin), and if those nomenclatural
sts who so strenuously insist on the perpetuation of all original
blunders will kindly overlook it. I would wish to correct it.
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