y 



but it is close and unquestionably the European analogue of it. It 

 seems to be a smaller, more regular plant than its American cousin. 



Foreign Related Species. 



Notwithstanding the vast amount of name juggling that is going on in 

 this subject, very little is really known of the foreign polyporoids. As the cuttle 

 fish employs his ink to cloud the water and disguise his whereabouts, so does the 

 name juggler use his art to conceal how little he really knows. 



Fig. 364 



Polyporus montanus. 



Polyporus Berkeleyi is supposed to only occur in the United States. When 

 the truth is learned it will be found in many other countries, or forms that 

 are very close to it. At Kew there are three foreign collections, all having 

 the same general characters and the same peculiar spores as Polyporus Berke- 

 leyi. These are Polyporus Dickinsii from Japan, Polyporus eurocephalus 

 from Ceylon, and Polyporus Zelandicus from Australia. The latter is thinner, 

 tougher, and has the general appearance of Polyporus giganteus, but how the 

 two former differ from Berkeleyi I would not like to state on the evidence 

 of the small fragmentary pileoli by which they are represented. 



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