grows usually at the base of a pine tree and generally takes a pleuropodal form. 

 Rarely forms with central stems are found. Sometimes it grows on the trunks 

 of pine trees and then the stern is lateral or wanting. The forms on trunks have 

 received several names Polyporus tabulaeformis 21 by Berkeley and Polyporus 

 hispidioides by Peck, and both of these authors afterwards corrected their work. 

 Fries named this plant Polyporus spectabilis, according to Cooke's synonym. 



Polyporus Sch 



Fries gives, I think, a very good picture of it ( Icones T. 179) made from a fresh 

 plant, but it bothered me for years because I never saw specimens with the con- 

 trast of colors of the pores and context such as he shows. One must observe the 

 fresh plant to find that, for in drying the pores become very much the same 

 color as the context. The marked manner in which the fresh, yellowish pores 

 turn quickly brown on bruising is a notable character of the fresh plant not 

 mentioned I think in books. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 



Europe, Denmark, Dr. C. Mundt: Germany, Fritz Noack. 



America, Canada, C. G. Lloyd : Massachusetts, J. W. Huntingtou ( who 

 states "very common"): Minnesota, E. P. Ely: Ohio, Captain Win. Holden: 22 

 Michigan, S. G. Milner : Florida, C. G. Lloyd \ Alabama, A. S. Bertolet. 



NOMENCLATURE. "The nomenclature is in accordance with the best 

 judgment of the author." The above quotation from a recent catalogue by Edith 

 M. Farr impresses me as being good common sense. If authors would rely on 

 their own judgment in selecting names instead of being dictated to by some 

 "rules" it would be much better. The man who has to conform to "rules," 

 formulated by those who knew nothing of his subject, is to be pitied. 



21 Incorrectly compiled tubulaeformis in Saccardo, Vol. 6, p. 76. 



22 pine is not indigenous around Cincinnati and the discovery of this species near Cin- 

 cinnati by Captain Holden is of interest, as it is certainly adventitious in this locality. 



