Related plant. POLYPORUS ORINOCENSIS (Fig. 325). With the 

 same color and other characters except its small pores, we mention Polyporus 



Orinocensis here, for we feel it is a 

 very closely related plant notwithstand- 

 ing its small pores. Professor Patouil- 

 lard now places it in the same section 

 with cucullata. It has small pores and 

 they are paler than those of cucullata. 

 When fresh they were probably white. 

 It would not do to classify such a 

 small-pored plant as a Hexagona and 

 we wish Nature would be more con- 

 F 'o- 325 - sistent and make her species so they 



would fit into the man-made genera. It would be so much simpler. Polyporus 

 Orinocensis is known from but one collection (Fig. 325) in the herbarium of 

 Professor Patouillard. 



Fig. 326 

 Hexagona Miquelii. Type at Paris. 



HEXAGONA MIQUELII (Fig. 326). Pileus orbicular, reni- 

 form. Color deep reddish brown. Surface glabrous, but strongly tes- 

 sellate. Pores orbicular, shallow, colored. 



This, as to coloration, texture, and all characters, is exactly the same as 

 Hexagona cucullata, except that it is strongly marked with a tessellate pileus. 

 It is a very rare plant and but three specimens have ever reached Europe, all 

 of which were discovered to be "new species." First, from Surinam, named 

 Polyporus Miquelii by Montague, a nice specimen (Fig. 326) in the herbarium 

 of Montagne. Then from Java, by Zollinger, named Polyporus pustulosus by 

 Leveille, specimen in the herbarium of Professor Patouillard. The third from 

 St. Domingo, named by Berkeley Favolus induratus. All are exactly the same 

 plant. 35 



HEXAGONA BIPINDIENSIS (Figs. 327 and 328). Pileus thin, 

 orbicular or reniform. Color reddish brown. Surface minutely veluti- 

 nate, strongly tessellate. Pores pale, probably white when fresh, me- 

 dium round, shallow. 



35 In a case of this kind, when Mr. Murrill uses the last name, induratus, his reasons are 

 very puzzling to understand. As he has' made so much fuss about "priority," we do not know 

 whether he does not know it is the same plant or whether he thinks 1852 is prior to 1841. 



