384 Rev. M. J. Berkeley on Exotic Fungi, 



margin ; dissepiments thin, very rigid, clothed with scattered 

 solitary bristles. Substance brown, ferruginous, fit for tinder. 



East Indies. Dr. Wight. 



This is probably the true Pol. sinensis, Fr., and conse- 

 quently Pol. FavuSy Linn. Sp. PI. It is certainly quite distinct 

 from the foregoing, which is marked Pol. sinensis in Sir W. J. 

 Hooker's Herbarium, and is published under that name in the 

 ^ Linnaea,' having, besides other points, the pores nearly ten 

 times larger. As Scenidium of Klotzsch appears to be in- 

 tended merely as the name of a tribe, the name of sinensis 

 should have been retained. In the following year the Mau- 

 ritius plant was published as the P. sinensis, Fr. without any 

 reference to P. Wightii. I have endeavoured to do away with 

 the consequent confusion by giving the former the name of 

 the learned German mycologist. 



4. P. (Favolus) sericeo-hirsutus, KL, Linn. vol. viii. p. 483. 

 Pileus effuso-reflexed, very thin, coriaceous, sericeo-villous, 

 zoned, pale tawny ; pores rather large, angular, unequal ; dis- 

 sepiments very thin, sometimes torn. Pileus very often fixed 

 by the centre, 2 — 3 inches across, suborbicular, emarginate. 

 Perfectly free specimens are beautifully sericeo-strigose, with 

 the flocci more or less matted and fasciculate, so as to give it 

 a shaggy appearance. Some specimens are merely velvety. 



On bark. New Orleans. Hook. Herb. 



5. P. {Mesopus) gracilis, Kl. in Hook. Herb. Small. Pileus 

 carnoso-coriaceous, orbicular, very thin, quite smooth, even, 

 pallid ; pores extremely minute, suborbicular but more or less 

 sinuous ; stem exactly central, very slender, flexuous, equal, 

 pruinose. Pileus ^ an inch broad, so thin that the pores are 

 visible through it, pale dull ochre. Pores deep in proportion 

 to the thickness of the pileus; dissepiments thin, waved. 

 Stem 1 inch high, ^^^th of an inch thick. 



India Occid. Probably from Rev. L. Guilding. Allied to 

 Pol. flexipes, Fr. in Linn. The above description is drawn up 

 from two individuals in Sir W. J. Hooker's Herbarium, marked 

 by Klotzsch P. gracilis, Kl. The base of the stem is broken 

 off\, therefore I cannot state whether it is blackened. 



6. P. {Mesopus) parvulus, Kl. Linn. 1. c. Pileus thin, co- 

 riaceous, obsoletely silky, obscurely zoned, striato-rugosc ; 



