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means by which they may be readily recognized in the field, and to 
offer a logical change in the use of names to distinguish them. 
History. 
In order to show that the name Polyporus carneus, as originally 
applied, has nothing to do with the American species, the rather 
confused history of the misreference is necessary. 
In 1826, Blume and Nees von Esenbeck published a new species 
from Java, as follows: 
“Polyporus (Apus) carneus—P. suberosus, durus, pileis effusis imbricatis 
rugosis carneis, poris minutis concoloribus. (Locus in Systemate mycologico 
inter Polyporos Apodes perennes post P. roseum Alb. et Schw., nostro affinem 
speciem.) 
Descriptio. 
Pilei longitudinaliter effusi, imbricati, rarius solitarii, tres vel quatuor uncias 
longi, unciam et sesquiunciam lati, duas vel tres lineas crassi, tuberculato- 
rugosi et obsolete zonati, glabri, extus intusque carnei. Pori minuti, tamen 
nudo oculo conspiciendi, subrotundi marginibus subacutis, concolores. Color 
incarnatus siccitate expallescit, humiditate contra in rubedinem transit. 
Substantia suberosa, dura, sicca. Contextus floccosus. Asci tenues, ir- 
regulares, filiformes, pellucidi. Sporae desiderantur. 
Patria: Java insula, ad truncos (Blume)." 
Fries (12) listed and described the species under this name in 1838, 
referred to the original place of publication and emphasized the 
characters “glabro azono carneo." In 1874, Fries (13) confused the 
Javanese plant with the American species and again referred to the 
characters "glabro azono carneo." The American species is not 
glabrous or azonate. 
Berkeley (1) in 1847 described a new species from Ceylon, as 
follows: 
“P. (Anodermei) rubidus, n. sp.; roseo-gilvus; pileo tenui coriceo subreni- 
formi sulcato-zonato inequabili pulverulento sericeo; contextu concolori; 
poris minimis brevibus punctiformibus. Gardn. 96. 
Point de Galle, Ceylon. On fallen trees in woods. Dec. 1844. 
Pilei 2 inches or more broad, 115 inch long, laterally confluent, subreniform 
or subflabelliform, thin, coriaceous of a delicate rosy grey, uneven, sulcate 
or zoned, clothed with delicate mealy pubescence. 
Substance coloured like the pileus. 
Pores rosy grey, very minute, but visible to the naked eye, punctiform. 
A very elegant species, resembling in colour P. Feei and P. carneus, but with- 
out any distinct cuticle. 5 
P. carneus, too, is described as glabrous, which is not the case with the 
present species, which I should otherwise have been inclined to think a well 
developed form of the Java fungus.” 
Although the original material of Blume and Nees has not been 
examined by any mycologist of the present generation, there is no 
