POLYSTICTUS MEMMINGERI. I have not seen and do not know this: 

 It seems from the description to be a very obese obesus. 



POLYSTICTUS CUTICULARIS (Fig. 205). Pileus plane, smooth, bright 

 cinnamon color, strongly zonate. Context thin, less than 5 mm., 15 concolorous. 

 Pores large, 1-2 mm. wide, 3 mm. long. Paler than the pileus. Stipe rather obese, 

 concolorous, minutely velutinate (2 cm. long, i cm. thick in this specimen.) 

 Spores 6 x 12-14 mic., pale colored, smooth, lateral apiculate with a large gutta. 



Based on a single specimen collected at Wayland, Mass, by Geo. E. Morris. 

 It is quite different from related plants in this country in its very thin context, 

 in proportion to the pores, and the spores (lateral apiculate) are different in shape 

 from all others. Not knowing what it is, I give it a new name in keeping with 

 custom in such cases. It may be a new species and it may not. I hope some 

 day to be in a position to say. 



POLYSTICTUS DECURRENS (Fig. 206). Pileus depressed, zonate, 

 smooth, pale cinnamon color, thin. Stipe slender. Pores long, decurrent, small 

 regular. Spores elliptical, 4x8 mic., hyaline, smooth, guttate. 



Fig. 206. 

 Polystictus decurrens. 



This species is only " known from the type locality." It was collected by 

 Geo. E. Morris, at Ellis, Mass. It differs from all others in its long decurrent 

 pores. It is closest to cinuamomeus, but pileus is smoother, not bright color, 

 more rigid. As to the naming of the preceding plant, the same remarks apply 

 to this. 16 



POLYSTICTUS DEPENDENS. If this is not an anomaly of some kind it 

 is a very curious thing. It grows pendant, hanging on the under side of pine 

 branches and logs and the pores (of course) on the under side of it. It might well 

 be compared to a wasp's nest. In its surface, context, color, pores and general 

 appearance it is almost the same as Polystictus cinnamomeus excepting in its 

 manner of growth. It is a small plant about one half inch in diameter and 

 very rare, being found originally by Curtis in South Carolina and later by Ellis 

 in New Jersey, who sent his plants to Cooke to be named. At Kew there is also 

 in the same cover what appears to be the same plant from Africa. 



I* Hence the name, for the thin flesh is little more than a cuticle. 



16 AS a matter of truth, Jacquin's figure of Polystictus cinnamomeus agrees with Mr. 

 r and shape better than it does with the plant to which the name is 



Morris' plant both in colo: 



now applied. At the same time no such plant a 



now in Europe. 



