Mycological Bulletin 



No. 82 



I/'. ./. Kcllrnnuii. I'll. P., Oliin Stale L'un'crsity. 



Coliiiiihiis. Uliio. October, llio;. 



AK )S'1"LV Ar.OL'T i'OLM'ORI. 



riiou.^li C. ( 1. Lloycl's M \co]()j;"ical writings arc most teener- 

 ally distributed to a wide circle of readers, it is probable that main- 

 patr(.iis of tl:e Biillcfiii do not receive all that he publishes, ^\'e 

 therefore think it ach'isable to reproduce h.ere jjortions as far as 

 sjjace ])erniits. 



NOTES I'RO.M MYCOLOGICAL LLrERATURE, ^'IIL 



\V. A. KELLEK.MAX. 



Mr. C. Ci. Lloyd of Cincinnati published Letter No. tO from Paris, 

 July, ]9()(), and from this interesting and instructive communication we 

 make the following excerpts: 



"There have heen al)out fwciity-cii.:lil liiiiulrrd polyporoids 'descrilx'd." 

 not counting the several hundred 'synonyms' given by Fries. From the 

 L'nited States alone there are al)rnit live hundred 'species' recorded. Inmgi 

 are widely distril)uted plants. Tlie fungi of Europe and the United States 

 are practically tl:e same. We do not cinesiion Ijut the larger part of these 

 twenty-eight hundred are s\nonyms. hut it is a large task to find out what 

 they are and tf) learn, the species that are 'good.' We shall devote most 

 of our time in the immediate future to work on the European .species, for 

 it is self-evident that as the first and most of the work lias been done with 

 iuiroi)ean species, and as the .Vmerican species are largely the same, one 

 must first acquire a knowledge of what occurs in luirope in order to l)e in 

 positiim to judge as to those of America. 



"There has been so mucli changing of names kuelv in the Polyporii 



thai we feel it well to state our position in this regard. Tlie most and 



l!)est systematic work on Polyporus was done by Fries. Mis system and 



5 names have been in general use for two generations, and are familiar to 



"'"-all. We therefore feel that no attempt should be made to change them 



I excepting in very exceptional cases. It has !)ccome quite a fad lately to 



^< look up dates of synonyms ;md slmffle the name-; around on such evidence. 



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