Mededeelingen van ’s Rijks Herbarium Leiden: 
No. 9. The polyporoid types of Léveillé at Leiden. 
Letter No. 86. 
BY 
CG LLOYD, 
Cincinnati. 
In the early days the old Dutch botanists made many collections 
of fungi in Java and other Dutch colonies in the East. With the 
exception of JUNGHUHN, they were not published by the collectors, 
but were vaguely named and preserved in the museum at Leiden. 
In this museum are many old collections by KorrHaLs, BLUME, 
ZiPPELIUS and JUNGHUHN in the Kast, and MrQuer in Surinam, but 
very few of them have the collector's name stated on the label. 
LÉverrLÉ visited the museum about 1844 and when he went 
back to Paris he published forty-live “new species” that he had 
noted in the museum at Leiden. He did not endorse his names on 
any of the labels, but he cited the collectors, often inaccurately 1 
believe, and the names or numbers that the specimens bore. I 
have worked the collection over and by means of these citations 
have been able to identify the larger part of the types. It is pos- 
sible that another search might produce others that 1 have over- 
looked, but Ll went carefully into the matter and believe that very 
few of those [ did not find will ever be found or at least will ever 
be identified. In my opinion LÉver rk did about the poorest work 
in naming species of any of the old namers, always excepting 
KALCHBRENNER. At that time but few foreign species had been named, 
but LeverLé did not seem to know even these few. In addition he 
often based species on very inadequate material, little abortive or 
undeveloped specimens that should not have been named at all. 
Recently all the Javanese specimens have been sent to BRESADOLA 
