SOME WOOD-DESTROYING FUNGI OF JAVA 
EDWARD ANGUS BURT 
Mycologist and Librarian to the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Professor in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of 
Washington University 
In the summer of 1921, Dr. Carl Hartley sent to me from 
Buitenzorg a package of specimens of the higher fungi, of species 
which he had observed to be destructive to timber of Java. My 
study in the determination of these specimens has shown that 
some of the species have a taxonomic interest in addition to their 
economic importance, the latter falling in the field of Dr. Hartley 
for extended consideration. 
The following species were received :— 
POLYPORACEAE 
Fomes Korthalsii (Lév.) Cooke, as understood by Bresadola, 
Hedwigia 51: 312. 1912. 
Butt rot on living Castanea argentea, West Java, C. Hartley 
(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 59493). 
Common on living Castanea, Tjiboda, West Java, C. Hartley 
(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 59491). 
Fomes pectinatus (Kl.) Cooke. 
Parasitic on Tabernaemontana sph pa, Madjokerto, 
East Java, C. Hartley & В. D. Rands (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
59510). : 
Fomes velutinosus Hutchins in Lloyd, Мус. Writ. 4: Syn. 
Fomes 260. text f. 599. 1915. 
On dead koerea, West Java, C. Hartley (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 59507). 
This species is suggestive of Polyporus gilvus in aspect and 
coloration and presence of setae in the hymenium but has colored 
spores 5 X 4 y and the tubes in two strata. 
Fomes (Ganoderma) applanatus Fr. 
On stump of Acacia decurrens, Buitenzorg, Java, C. Hartley 
(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 59504). 
Polystictus elongatus (Berk.) Fr. 
Issued July 25, 1924. 
Ann. Мо. Bor. Ganp., Vor. 11, 1924 (37) 
