with angular mouths. The spores are globose, hyaline, about 8 mic. 

 in diameter, and distinctly echinulatc. It is the only Polyporus we 

 have, I think, in the United States with echinulatc spores. Our photo- 

 graph presents figure 362, a plant in situ much reduced, and figure 363 

 a small pileolus almost natural size. 



History. The plant first reached Berkeley from Lea, Ohio, and was named 

 on the label Polyporus Anax, but not published. Then Curtis sent it to Berkeley 

 and also to Fries 35 and Fries named it Polyporus Berkeleyi. Berkeley did not 

 seem to have been overwhelmed with the honor for he did not change the name 

 on the label and the next time he received it he discovered it was a "new 

 species" and called it Polyporus subgiganteus. Berkeley knew that the plant 

 he had labeled Polyporus Anax was the same Fries had named Polyporus 

 Berkeleyi, for he endorsed both names on the Curtis Mss. notes, but years later 

 when he summarized the North American fungi in Grevillea he had forgotten 

 it as he included the plant in Grevillea under his own Mss. name, Polyporus 

 Anax. Years later Cooke discovered that "Polyporus Anax'' had not been 

 "described" and supplied the oversight. 



Our American mycologists had almost as much trouble with it. Professor 

 Peck solved it in the usual way by discovering that it was a "new species" 

 on two occasions (Polyporus Beatiei and Polyporus lactifluus). Ellis probably 

 got the name from Cooke as he distributed it as Polyporus Anax (2d series, 

 No. 1595). Morgan 3 " got it right, and I judge it was from Fries' publication 

 that he reached this conclusion. This was all done before I began the study. 

 There has been no confusion concerning Polporyus Berkeleyi since I can re- 

 member. Even Ellis had it right during the latter part of his life. 



EUROPEAN ANALOGUE. 



POLYPORUS MOXTANUS (Fig. 364). The question now to 

 be solved is whether or not Polyporus montanus, as named by Quelet. 

 from the Jura regions of France, is the same as our American species. 

 It is very close and has about the same context and color and the same 

 peculiar spores. It is a smaller plant, and the only specimen I ever 

 received (from E. Woulff. Austria) was more regular and meso- 

 pcclal, if I remember correctly. 37 Quelet figured it as fan-shaped, with 

 a lateral, short stipe. It is a rare plant in Europe and very rare in 

 the museums. All that I know are two collections at Berlin. 3 " Quelet 

 first referred the plant to Polyporus acanthoides, and both the speci- 

 mens in the museum at Berlin were so referred originally. I would 

 net say that Polyporus montanus is exactly the same plant as Berkeleyi, 



M I do not know whether this specimen came to Fries direct from Curtis or through 

 Berkeley. I judge, from the name Fries gave it, it was through Berkeley. 



36 Morgan's error in determination of "Polyporus Anax" has already been explained, and 

 I will not repeat it here. (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 341.) 



37 At this writing I can not find the specimen. 



34 These two collections at Berlin are, one from "Neuchatel. by Morthier," the other 

 "Saxony, Krieger." Both were originally labeled "Polyporus aeanthoides, Bull." 



which 



