102 



Frisca, but Frisea, using the name for a subgenus or section of 

 T/tcsium, and adopting it doubtless from Thesium Frisea, Linn. 

 Mant. ii. p. 213. Endlicher (Gen. Plant, p. 326) and Spacb (Hist. 

 Veg. Phan. x. p. 4G0), have incorrectly written Frisea, attributing 

 the name to Reichenbach. Wittstein therefore was not the 

 originator of this mistake, but by a curious misreading of the 

 following paragraph from Endlicher's General Plantarum he is 

 responsible for evolving from what is merely the name of a plant, 

 a person who, in the interests of botany, sofourned at the Cape. 



Endlicher wrote :—'' Frisea Reichenb. Consp. 80. Thesii sp. 

 capenses Auct. Th. Frisca, crassifolium, funale, spicatum. . ." 



Ih. Frisca " is of course nothing more than Thesium Frisea. 



F 



The following reduction should have been included in my paper 

 on Fhesmm m K.B. no. 1, 1915: — 



■^^??^^cf"'.4-^^- Esp. Nouv. Thes. 6; A.DC. i^ DC. Prodr. 

 XIV 666; Sond. m Flora, 1857, 407. T. trans gar icpinum, Sond. 



lonJ^^S ^^^I' ?il^-„.T/.^^!L9'^'^i''-^' Schlcchter in Journ. Bot. 



T. ScJdechteri, 



The species has a somewhat curious distribution having been 

 recorded m South Africa only from the eastern districts, E. of 

 Long. 280, whilem Tropical Africa the only known habitat is in 



ThP Anne m n n ^ + r. t*-, ^ n ci ' ii -ttx . . 'L . 



w 



ica 



the Aims mountaiiLs, German South West Africa 



A, W. HILL, 



XII.-FOMES JUNIPERINUS AND ITS OCCUR- 

 RENCE IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



E. M. WAKEFIELD. 



m-fnv wfli''^ '^'"'".^^'^ illustrating the wide distribution of 



Easf AfH?a P.nf T""'.' importance, has been received from the 

 i!-a8t Atrica Protectorate. Amnncr«+ cn^.« f ,• „...l i- .. j.x__. 



Amongst some fungi sent for deter- 



were two firir^w 7 r" ' ^-'O^'^rament Mycologist, Nairobi, 



Syd On taXTT'f ^ '''''' ^^'^'^P'^^vs (Schi'enk) Sacc. & 

 found Mr Dow?n. 1 '^ ii ' ^"'^^f ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ which they were 

 " No lie ThT., ■:'+';; ^' '^P/^^'^- ^^'' ^•^"^^^-^^^ information :- 

 East African forest '^ "^""f ''''""' P^^^^^te^ccurring In the 

 ind^^^rnoT^'ced," ' Tl ' '' ^'' '' ^^ '^'^°^"^^' ''' ^^'^J f^^"^^ on the 

 named TsVJ«?^.; ^ commonest cedar, and the only one 



wherrit is not too d ni "r ' "'''T^ between 7000 and 0000 feet, 

 dare Rnn^^e both Klk?,^ ^ A^l''^ '''''^^' °^ ^"^'^"-^bi, on tlie Aber- 

 and on tte m,r?W hf '""^^^r ^■^^'^n>ments of the Rift Valley, 



of Kenia isruil'LteT^ "' ^""" ^''^ ^^^^^^^"^'^'^^ '''''' 



^^^^^t^}±^: r'' -l^^^ ^-^-^- - -i^l-red branch, 

 phores wh^n out down r ^'f °^'^"^^' y^«^«- Trees carrying 8poro- 

 eentre. ir g t^^ ^fit^^^'Y^. 'T'^ '^^'Y eonsiderabl.? at the 



from anythiuir ud to iL? I '" ^l^nneter have holes in them 



^j filing lip to two leet arrns^i Tlw^ ,.i p n -i- 



are lagged and irretruhn- ih. ^ 7 • ^'^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ cavitio^ 

 t-/ng\..„ reiZlfl^L Sftf'^l'™; 'l^:Vr™ «- P-i-*-- 



