with fine hairs, sulcate zonate. Gills narrow, close, concolorous, con- 

 centric, usually with cross partitions forming pores near the margin, 

 furnished with abundant colored setae (of the Hymenochaete type). 

 Spores (said to be) colorless, globose. 



This plant was originally from Mauritius, but has since been found 

 abundantly in the East. There are specimens at Kew from Mauritius (abundant) 

 India (Perak), Malay, and Sarawak. It is also recorded from Java, and is 

 evidently a frequent plant through the East. It occurs also in Madagascar. 1 " 

 and the Philippines. The two following, I think, are synonyms : Cyclomyces 

 Beccarianus, from Sarawak, of which I have seen a co-type, identically the same ; 

 Cyclomyces stereoides, of which I know only the description, but do not question 

 it was based on a scutellate specimen. It came from the same region and the 

 "description" was practically the same. 



Fig. 360 



Cyclomyces Greeiiii Specimen from K. B. Sterling . 



CYCLOMYCES GREENII (Fig. 380). This characteristic 

 plant hardly needs any description other than our figure. As there 

 is no other plant in the United States with such a disposition of the 

 gills, it can not possibly be mistaken. The color is ferruginous, the 



16 I have recently seen at the British Museum a specimen in a German exsiccatae from 

 Madagascar. It is absolutely the same as the Mauritian and Indian plant. However, every 



calls it "var. MadagaEcariensis." 



