A NEW POLYPOROID GENUS. 



BY N. J. McGiNTY. 



Our literature is enriched by a wonderful boletoid genus discovered 

 by the late Dr. Hennings, which has a volva at the base. He called it 

 Volvoboletus, and reconstructed a picture from Persoon's old work to 

 illustrate it. It grew in France, that is, it was said to grow in France 

 about a hundred years ago, but it is remarkable how elusive these things 



Fig. 255 

 Volvopolyporus peronatus. 



are, for none of the present generation of French mycologists have 

 ever found it, and some of them are unkind enough to surmise that 

 it exists only in imagination. I trust they will not be so skeptical as 

 to the new genus that I propose herewith, as I present a figure that 

 can not be questioned, the type illustration, and also proof that 

 cinches it, a Latin (pidgin) diagnosis in keeping with the " rules." 



VOIvVOPOLYPORUS, N. G., McGINTY. Tubuli in stratum porosum, facile 

 ab hymenophoro separabile. Stipite centrali. Totus fungus primitis quidem 

 in volva inclusus. Volva persistentis, cum basi stipitis connata. 



But one species of Volvopolyporus is known (viz.: Volvopolyporus 

 peronatus (Schulz) McGinty), like the celebrated genus Dictybole 

 that is only known from a drawing. It was said to grow in the 

 beech woods in Hungary. 



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