A LIST OF KNOWN PHILIPPINE FUNGI. 



By P. L. Rickkk. 

 (U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, U. S. A.) 



hi 1904 the author commenced the study of a small collection of 

 Philippine fungi made by Elmer D. Merrill, mostly during the preceding 

 year, consisting of about GO numbers, of which nearly two-thirds belonged 

 to the Polyporales. As a preliminary to the identification of anything 

 more than the best known species, a card catalogue of the species already 

 described from or credited to the Philippines, and a bibliography of the 

 mycological literature of the Islands was made. Tbus far fourteen 

 articles have been found dealing wholly or in part with Philippine fungi, 

 and from these articles there lias been compiled a list of about 150 species 

 described or reported from the Philippines. The citations for the orig- 

 inal publications of all binomials have been carefully verified and 

 corrected, as many of the references in Saccardo's Sylloge, Strenz' 

 Nomenclator, and in most of the papers included in 'the appended bibli- 

 ography can not be depended upon and they are especially unreliable in 

 the citations for combinations. 



This list should not be regarded as a critical revision of the species 

 already known from the Philippines, but only as an attempt to bring 

 together all references to species credited to the Archipelago by various 

 authors, as a basis for further critical studies. 1 I am indebted to Dr. 

 W. A. Murrill, of the New York Botanical Garden, for assistance in the 

 identification of some of the more difficult species of the Polyporales. 



1 One paper on # Philippine fungi, overlooked by Mr. Ricker, was discovered just 

 as the present article was going to press: Berkeley, Contributions to the Botany 

 of II. M. S. Challenger, XXXVI II, Enumeration of the Fungi collected during 

 tbe Expedition of H. M. S. Challenger, 1874-75, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 16 

 (1878), 38-54. On pages 45 to 48 thirty-five species and varieties of fungi are 

 enumerated under the heading "Camiguin, Malanipa, and Malamon (Philippines)." 

 Two of these, Lcnzites applanata Ft., and Hirncola rufa Berk., arc from Little 

 Ke Island according to the list, and should have been enumerated on page 45 

 under Little K6, this island not being one of the Philippine group. A list of 

 the Philippine species enumerated by Berkeley is appended to the present paper 

 and the title has been inserted in the bibliography. — E. D. M. 



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