Fig. 207. 

 Polysticlus depeudens and the pore surface. Both enlarged 6 diameters. 



Since the pamphlet has been in type we were very much pleased to receive 

 a specimen of Polystictus dependens from G. C. Fisher, Florida. The spores of 

 the plant are of a much deeper color than those of Polystictus ciunamomeus 

 and smaller, 5x7 inic. They are elliptical, guttate, smooth. Mr. Fisher's 



Elants reached me at an opportune time to present a figure (207) which is an en- 

 irgement six diameters of the specimen. 



SETAE NONE. SPORES PURE WHITE. 



POLYPORUS SCHWEINITZII (Fig 208). Pileus dark brown, 

 varying much in size and shape, covered with a strigose, matted brown 

 tomentum. The perfect form is mesopodal. Usually it is pleuropodal 

 and sometimes apodal. Context brown, soft, spongy when fresh. Soft, 

 brittle when dry. Stipe usually short and thick, rarely central, usually 

 excentric, sometimes wanting. Pores decurrent, at first large, meruloid, 

 shallow, when fresh yellowish, spotting brown when bruised or in 

 drying, becoming longer (5 mm.) and when old irregular and lacerate. 17 

 Spores pure white in mass, 18 elliptical, 4x6, hyaline, smooth. 



This is a celebrated plant and has been known (except by a few changers 19 ) 

 as Polyporus Sclnveinitzii ever since Fries nearly ninety years ago so named it. 

 in honor of Schweinitz. 20 It is one of those intermediate plants, between Poly- 

 stictus and Polyporus and has been referred to both. Fries at one time put it in 

 Polystictus but Cooke and Saccardo in Polyporus. It varies in size from two 

 inches to a foot in diameter (or even two feet as Mr. Murrill has collected it). It 



1" I have received the plant from correspondents sent as a Hyduuin. 



IS The English author who states " pale yellow " certainly never collected them. 



19If you examine their work you will be impressed with the wonderful unanimity with 

 which each one of them gets up a different name for it. During the last twenty five years It 

 has had a new juggled name on an average once every five years. 



201 had the pleasure of telling Mr. Romell that it had recently been named in honor of 

 him. It was news to him, and very amusing, and we had a good laugh over it. 



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