Polyporus scruposus. I did not find the type, but I believe, as generally 

 held, that scruposus is a (marked) form of gilvus. 



Polyporus Berkeleyi. I found no type, but there is no question as to the 

 species. The co-type (under the name of Polyporus Anax) is found in Berkeley's 

 herbarium. 



Polyporus Ravenelii. I found no type. 



Polyporus barbatulus. I find no type, but a specimen from Lenormand 

 labeled " Polyporus barbatulus Fr. (non-Hexagona sericea) ad Juniper, Caroline- 

 de-Sud." It is our well known plant on cedar in the southern states. I think 

 it is " Hexagona sericea," and I do not know (except habitat) the difference be- 

 tween it and the common Polystictus pinsitus of the tropics. 



Trametes lactea. I did not find the type, but I think it is well known 

 under many forms and many names. 



Trametes zebrina. No type found. 



PHALLOIDS IN THE MUSEUM AT UPSALA. 



In alcohol. There is a very abundant collection made by E. Nyman in Java 

 a number of years ago, but mostly unlabeled. The phalloids of Java are well 

 known now, due to the work of Penzig and Dr. Bernard. The following species 

 are at Upsala : 



Phallus indusiatus, twelve collections, ten of the usual form with broad 

 pilei and two with slender pilei. 



Phallus irpicoides (or Phallus merulinus, a better name for it), two collec- 

 tions. This is a frequent species in Java. 



Simblum periphragmoides, five collections. I have heretofore held that the 

 species so frequent in the East Indies which was called Simblum gracile was 

 distinct in its much more slender form than the original specimen of Simblum 

 periphragmoides from Mauritius. These specimens at Upsala, however, are 



some of them obese, and so evidently the same as the original specimen at Kew 

 that I will have to recede from my former view, and as Professor Fischer does, 

 consider them one species. 



Mutinus bambusinus, one collection. 



Clathrus Treubei, three collections, two old, with the arms broken apart, as 

 shown in Myc. Notes, p. 382, fig. 212. 



Jansia rugosa, one collection. 



There is also at Upsala in alcohol, a specimen of Aseroe rubra from New 

 Zealand, collected by G. von Scheele; Clathrus cancellatus from Montpellier, 

 France, and ten collections of Phallus impudicus by various collectors in 

 Sweden. 



Dried specimens. Aseroe rubra from New Zealand, Berggren, and a draw- 

 ing from the fresh specimens; Clathrus cancellatus, Tirol, Bresadola ; Clathrus 

 pusillus, " New Holland, ex. Berk.;" Mutinus elegans from Curtis, and labeled 

 " Corynites brevis ; which was a manuscript name for it ; Clathrus cibarius, 

 New Zealand, Berggren ; Lysurus Gardneri, co-types, ex. Berkeley ; Macowan- 

 ites agaricinus, co-type from Kalchbrenner. (Not usually classed' in the phal- 

 loids, but to my mind closely related); Mutinus caninus, ex. Quelet, France ; 

 Mutinus (unnamed) Guadeloupe, L/Herminier. (Something curious but un- 

 named, and I think this specimen unnamable); Phallus impudicus Fautrey, 

 France; Clathrus guttatus, no specimen but the type drawing from Orsted on 

 which the species was based. 



A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Monsieur Patouillard a public depuis 

 longtemps et il me 1'a d'ailleurs encore confirme personnellement 1'annee der- 

 niers que le Polyporus lucidus a des spores verruqueuses. Atkinson pretend 

 qu'il est victim d'une erreur d'optique et que les spores de ce champignon sont 

 lisses. Je pense que Monsieur Patouillard sera heureux d'apprendre ce qu'At- 

 kinson pense de sou opinion sur ce point d' observation microscopique. 



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