Porothelium lacerutn, a little fragment labeled originally Boletus Pezizoides. 

 As far as I have been able to learn thus far there is but one species of Poro- 

 thelium in Europe or America which I would call fimbriatutn. 



BERKELEY'S SPECIES. There are a number of American species of 

 Berkeley's naming in the herbarium of Fries, received mostly from Berkeley, 

 Curtis and Lenormand. At first I was very much puzzled to find many Ameri- 

 can plants with a French label, a handwriting unfamiliar to me, mostly speci- 

 mens from " Caroline-de-Sud " and indorsed in Th. Fries' writing " Lenormand 

 misit." I had never heard of any such American collector as " Lenormand." Th. 

 Fries tells me that Lenormand resided at Vire, in Normandy, France, when he 

 (Th. Fries) on one occasion visited him. 5 He was not a mycologist but an algol- 

 ogist, and never collected in America. These specimens, though the labels were 

 written by Lenormand, undoubtedly came from Curtis, and I think must have 

 been received by Fries after the publication of Novae Symbolae. 



Berkeley's own sendingsto Fries from America were mostly from Lea, Ohio, 

 and were of special interest to me as the original specimens collected in my own 

 neighborhood. There is a better representation of Lea's Ohio Plants at Upsala 

 than at Kew, and one specimen at least that is not at Kew. 



Curtis sent Fries many specimens, mostly though those that have been 

 named by Berkeley. In addition there are a few specimens from Sprague and 

 some from Farlow. 



As practically all of Berkeley's American species are known and mostly well 

 represented at Kew and in the Curtis' herbarium at Cambridge, Mass., I will 

 onU note here those I found at Upsala that were novelties to me. 



Polyporus dryophilus I was indeed glad to find a good type specimen at 

 Upsala. There is none at Kew or Paris, and I believe this is the only one in ex- 

 istence. It came originally from Lea. Morgan has attempted to fit plants to 

 Berkeley's determination of Lea's specimens, collected at Cincinnati. Morgan 

 referred a collection to Polyporus dryophilus and this collection is the one on 

 which, in America, we have based our opinions of this species. As I recall 

 Morgan's plant, it is not the same as the type at Upsala. It is needless to say 

 that Fries' (Novae Symbolae) reference of this plant " Raven el, Mexico," is an 

 error. It should be "Lea, Ohio." 



Polyporus Sartwellii. I do not remember seeing this before. It appears to 

 me to be close to a rit 



Daedalea pallido-fulva. I have seen this plant before at Kew. I can not 

 agree with its reference to synonymy as originally referred by Bresadola (and 

 copied by Murrill). It was correctly interpreted by Morgan, I think. I am ac- 

 quainted with the plant in its type locality, and it is a good species, though 

 Berkeley has another name for it. 



Polyporus galactinus. There is a better specimen at Upsala than at Kew, 

 but I have often collected the fresh plant at Cincinnati. Dried specimens of the 

 plant are always poor. Its relations are entirely with the Anodermei Carnosi of 

 Fries, not with the Hispidi as stated by Fries, nor with Spongiosi, as placed by 

 Murrill. 



AMERICAN SPECIES NAMED BY FRIES. These are very few indeed. 

 Most of the American plants that reached Fries had been previously named by 

 Berkeley. The following are all that are given in Novae Symbolae. 



Polyporus spectabilis. There is a good specimen at Upsala. I agree with 

 Cooke. To me it is a mesopodal Polyporus Schweinitzii. 



Polvporus poripes. There is no specimen at Upsala. I had expected to find 

 one, as Mr. Murrill visited Upsala and then came home and announced that 

 flavovirens was a synonym for poripes. I think he got his idea from Raveuel's 

 exsiccata, hardly a just way of arriving at Fries species, particularly as Fries 

 describes poripes as having white pores, and every one knows that the pores of 

 flavovirens are yellow. If I wished to guess at the identity of poripes, as Mr. 

 Murrill evidently has done, I should guess the same plant that Underwood de- 

 scribed to be a ''new species," (Polyporus retipes). 



5 I am told by Monsieur Hariot that the herbarium of Lenormand is now at the Faculte des Sci- 

 :es de Caen, France. 



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