255 



Piovincesi. of Xigciia In' Mr. Farquli arson, together wiih a few 



sent at various times hy other correspondents and preserved in the 



Kew HerbariTuri. Some of the species were recorded previously 



(K. B. 1912, p. 141) — hut additional notes or more correct nonicn- 

 olature are now given. 



Agaricaceae. 



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Lentinus Tuber=regiuiii,- Fr. Epicr., p. 892. 



Z. Woermanniy Cohn and Scliroeter, in Abhandl. Xatiiiw. 

 Terein Hamburg xi. p. 4. 



L. flavidus, Mass. in Ketv Bull, 1901, p. 163. 



A full description of this fungus, and its synonj^my, has been 

 giA'en by Kamsbottom in the British Museum ** Catalogue of 

 Plants collected by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot in South IN'igeria/' 

 The following additional notes, supplied by Mr. T. D. Maitland, 

 formerly Curator in the Agricultural Department, as to the 

 use of the sclerotiuni by natives, are of interest: — '^ The Ibo 



name is Osk, pronounced ^ aic-so,^ '' The Yoruba name is 

 Oluy which simply- means ^^ mushroom," and is applied to several 

 species of fungi. The sclerotia appear to be common in the bush, 

 and most of the natives are familiar with them, and use them as 

 food. They collect the Olu in the bush and bring it to the farm 

 where they bury it in the ground. When required for use suflScient 

 is cut off for immediate needs. They are also said to be able to 

 cultivate it in this "way, as small sclerotia brought from tlie bush 

 readily grow and may atlain the size of a football. 



^^ To prepare the sclerotium for food it is first washed, then 

 scraped into powder and boiled in soup along with fowl, fish, or 

 other animal food, 



''In Ogwnshi, in the Central Province, the natives grind the 

 sclerotia into powder, and mix it with the dye from Anatto seeds 

 {Bixa orellaiia), making a paste of the compound with which they 



paint their bodies." 



POLYrOKACEAE. 



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Polyporus arcularius, [Batsch) Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 342. 



Boletus arcidarhiSj Batsch. Elench. Fung., p. 97. 

 A rather pale form. Similar specimens have been received 

 from Sierra Leone. Agege. T. /). Maitland (1913). 



Polyporus gilvus, [Schu\) Fr, Elench., p. 104. 



Boletus gilvus, Schw. Syn. Fung. Car. Sup., p. TO.- 

 Exceedingly common on decaying tree-stumps, l)oth in uphiiid 

 bush forest and (more especially) in high forest. The species is 

 very variable in habit, and sometimes tends to become perennial. 

 Faffniliarson 10. 



Polyporus Colossus, Ft. Xov. Symb., p. 56.. 



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188T, 



p. 119. 



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A good series of entire specimens is sent. The species \% a 

 fairlv common saprophyte in farm clearings in moist districts, but 

 has lieen found in great profusion on felled Oil Palms at Ibadan. 



