the same collection- 3 (cfr. our figures 263 the large and small pores made 

 from the same collection). They are always more or less irregular. 24 



HISTORY. The plant first reached Fries from Brazil and was called 

 Polyporous pinsitus. Then he put it in the genus Polystictus, where it is 

 usually found in recent works. Then it was described by Klotszch, from New 

 Orleans, as Polyporous sericeo-hirsutus, which Fries changed to Hexagona 

 sericea. 25 Later Fries described a pale form from Southern United States as 



Fig. 263. 

 Polystictus pinsitus pores, x 6. 



Polystictus barbatulus. Specimens of Hexagona Friesiana, as named by Spegaz- 

 zini, are identically the same. (He has since acknowledged it.) The plant 

 is said to have other synonyms, and it undoubtedly has, but I have not looked 

 them up. Such a frequent plant in the tropics must have been discovered 

 to be a "new species" on many occasions. 26 



POLYPORUS ELLISII (Fig. 264). Pileus when fresh sul- 

 phur-yellow, with large, dense, fasciculate warts. 27 Flesh when fresh 

 white, about half an inch thick. In the dried specimen it is compact, 

 firm, and slightly discolored. Pores when young white, angular, de- 

 current. When old about a third of an inch long, angular, sinuate, 

 or somewhat irpicoid. Color of fresh pores said to be white, changing 

 to greenish when wounded. In the dried plant they are much darker 

 than the pileus. Spores (teste Underwood) oval, 6x9, smooth. 



23 The distinction between "barbatulus" and "sericeo-hirsutus," as pointed out, that the 

 former has larger pores than the latter, has no foundation. 



24 There is no basis for the statement that ' 

 pores than "sericeo-hirsutus" of Southern United 



25 As found in Saccardo, vol. 7, p. 363. 



26 I do not know 



pinsitu;- 

 States. 



jf the tropics 



rregulai 



26 I do not know who started the story, but it is stated in Saccardo that Polyporus der- 

 matodes, as named and illustrated by Leveille in "Gaudichaud's Voyage," is the same. It is 

 an error, for it has little resemblance to it, and belongs to a different section with colored 

 context. 



The first specimen of Polystictus pinsitus that reached Europe was called by Swartz, 

 Boletus villosus, and is found in Saccardo as Polystictus villosus. Years ago Berkeley pub- 

 lished that it was the same, and Swartz's specimen in the British Museum fully confirms it. 

 The date dictionary experts seem to have missed it. 



27 These 



ious plate-like warts 



ind me in a general way of 

 28 



