1923] Weir,—Fomes roseus and Trametes subrosea nom. nov. 217 
British North America under Fomes, but without description, giving 
as a synonym Trametes arcticus Berk. no. 3044. It is not unlikely that 
Berkeley also had unpublished material from Australia under the 
name of Polyporus Palliseri which Cooke used for his Australian 
species, consequently the above is the first time Berkeley's herbarium 
names, properly identified as to material, were published. No de- 
scription accompanied the publication of the names and they may, 
therefore, be disregarded. 
Cooke (11) apparently seeing his error in his first use of the name 
P. Palliseri, either being ignorant of or wilfully disregarding Berkeley's 
older name (T. cingulata), republished the Australian species in 1886 
under the name “ Polyporus argentatus" (= * P. Palliseri non Berk.”) 
with exactly the same description as he had previously employed for 
P. Palliseri. 
Saccardo, under Fomes Palliseri Berk., copied Cooke's original 
description, word for word, and uses exactly the same description for 
Polyporus argentatus Cke. 
Bresadola (8) has adopted the name Polyporus (Fomes) Palliseri 
Berk. to represent the American and North European species referred 
by authors to “ P. carneus Nees.” This seems objectionable. The 
confusion over the name, although P. Palliseri of Cooke is a synonym 
of T. cingulata Berk., and the fact that it is desirable to refer both 
the Australian and American species to Trametes, makes it seem more 
desirable to disregard Berkeley's herbarium name. 
Trametes arcticus Berk. in herb., though based on an authentic 
specimen and of the same species and possibly of the same collection, 
would be confused with Polyporus arcticus Fr. (Epicr. 479). Although 
the latter species is a Polystictus, as compiled by Saccardo, and may | 
not be distinct from the darker-pored form of Polystictus zonatus Fr., 
there is still opportunity for confusion. Lloyd suggested (Letter 39, 
note 25) that the plant on which Berkeley based his name Polyporus 
rubidus (Ceylon) be accepted in the sense of Polyporus carneus Bl. 
et Nees of Java. He later proposes calling the American plant 
Polyporus carneus and the Javanese plant Polyporus rubidus as a 
way out of the difficulty. Such inconsistent juggling, however, gets 
nowhere, and nothing constructive is offered. The fact remains as 
Lloyd has pointed out that one of the most common polypores in 
America has not been regularly named and described. Therefore, 
the name Trametes subrosea nom. nov. is proposed. 
