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Amesu, and Sebacina Amesii, named by Lloyd in honor of the 
collector. 
Among the rare or interesting specimens may be mentioned 
the following. The comments are quoted from Lloyd’s letters to 
Ames: 
Hydnum friabile (No. 484). A note by Lloyd says: “ Hydnum 
friabile was one of the few plants sent by Fries to Curtis. He 
published it in Novae Sym., 1851, and the specimen is still at Up- 
sala. I believe this specimen from Mr. Ames is the first collec- 
tion since.” 
Polyporus subradicatus Murrill (No. 393). Of this Lloyd re- 
marks: “A very rare plant, and this is the first one I have 
gotten.” 
Polyporus subradicatus Murrill (No. 405). Of this specimen 
Lloyd remarked: “The ‘crust’ on top is an anomaly when the 
specimen develops secondary pores, on the same principle that 
one sometimes notes Agarics with abortive gills on top.” 
Thelephora mollissima (No. 338). “A very rare plant both 
in this country and Europe . . . does not appear in Burt’s recent 
paper ... specimens are in Persoon’s herbarium and a better 
one from Persoon in Montagne’s herbarium. I found it in the 
University park at Upsala. and it is Thelephora intybacea in sense 
of Fries (not Burt). It agrees with Fries’s description and 
habitat. It is Thelephora atrocitrina for Quelet, who took Thele- 
phora intybacea in sense of a Stereum. While according to 
‘Law’ we must call this plant Thelephora intybacea in sense of 
Fries, as Fries had it wrong, and as Thelephora intybacea in 
sense of Fries, Quelet, and Burt are each a different plant, I do 
not see much sense in making such laws.” 
Polystictus varuformis Peck (Nos. 272, 331). “This is a 
rare plant, and you are the only correspondent from whom I re- 
ceive it in the East. It is surely the same plant that Murrill calls 
Polystictus hexagoniformis, under which name I have a fine col- 
lection from James R. Weir, Idaho. No. 273 is a pileate speci- 
men: 
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