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another point of affinity with Pholiota. Still, the absence of an 
annulus and the arachnoid character of the veil seem to forbid 
its reference to this subgenus. ° 
PANUS DORSALIS Pose. 
The form that occurs here does not well agree with the 
description of the species. It has no stem and is of a buff or 
pale-yellow color. The cuticle does not break up into ‘‘ floccose 
scales,’’ but the pileus is strigose-hairy, especially toward the 
margin. The spores are of a beautiful fleshy-pink color like 
the lamellz of young Agaricus campestris. It grows on beech 
and birch. I have not found it on pine. If the type is accu- 
rately described, our plant ought at least to be considered. a 
distinct variety. | 
PANUS OPERCULATUS B. & C. 
It is not rare on alder trunks and branches, but the veil or 
operculum is generally very fugacious, so that it is rarely seen 
except in very young plants. 
LENZITES SEPIARIA VAR. POROSA. 
This remarkable variety was detected at Long Lake, in Ham- 
ilton county. The whole hymenium is porous so that the plant 
might easily be taken for a species of Polyporus. All the spe- 
cimens found on a single pine trunk were of this character. 
LENZITES CooKE! Berk. 
The opinion has somewhere been expressed that Daedalea 
confragosa and Trametes rubescens are one species. I am dis- 
posed not only to adopt this opinion, but also to add to these 
synonyms Lenzites Cookei, L. Crategi, L. proxima and pos- 
sibly L. Alotzschii. Excepting the last one, of which I have 
seen no diagnosis, the descriptions of these so-called species 
are all applicable to a single fungus common with us. Neither 
description covers all the forms of the fungus, each is applica- 
ble to one or another of its forms. Indeed, so wonderfully 
variable and comprehensive is this Z. Cooke, of which scarcely 
more than a two-line description was given, that not only does 
it exhibit all the essential characters of the five species named, 
but its hymenium, utterly regardless of the generic limitations 
of the books, assumes the hymenial characters of four genera 
éven, viz. : Lenzites, Dedalea, ‘Trametes and Polyporus. A 
Species So comprehensive in its characters certainly deserves a 
more extended notice than any yet given to it. 
It generally grows singly and stemless, but in rare instances 
I have seen it clustered and with a stem-like base. When 
growing upon large trunks, the pileus is nearly semiorbicular ; 
