NOTES ON RESUPINATE HYMENOMYCETES—I On Pellicularia Cooke

Abstract

The author concludes that Pellicularia Cooke is to be regarded as the name ofan inseparable mixtum compositum (nomen confusum) and hence as illegitimate (im-priorable). He believes that, apart from a hypothetical gelatinous medium, Cooke'soriginal material consisted of the combination of the vegetative hyphae of a resupinatehymenomycete and the spores of a pervading imperfect fungus. If one of these con-stituent elements were to be selected as type, the choice would be the spores ratherthan the vegetative hyphae selected by Rogers.

Keywords

• HYMENOMYCETES