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Fig. 356. 

 Polysiictus trichor 



17 RareTy have new species promoters clone more careless work than did Leveille with this 

 plant. Ihe type is at Paris in good condition and is labeled "Polyporus (Trametes) Perrot- 

 tetn, Lev., in Leveille's writing and on a printed label "Guyane francaise, M. Poiteau." 

 Leveille named it after Perrottet, who not only did not collect it, but never collected any- 

 thing at all like it. 



That this specimen is the type there is no question. First, it answers Leveille's descrip- 

 tion. Second, Leveille states he saw the plant in the Museum at Paris, and there are no 

 plants collected in Java by Perrottet in the Museum at Paris. Third, no plant that can be 

 confused with it grows in Java. Fourth, it is labeled by Leveille himself. 



Leveille published it in 1844. Mr. Murrill uses a name published in 1849. It seems 



to me this is not giving due respect to the sacred principles of priority nor 

 "rules." 



those celebrated 



18 When I received the plant from tropical America I sent it to a good mycologist in 

 Europe, who named it for me Polystictus funalis, and I have always supposed that this was 

 its name until I studied the subject in the museums of Europe. I have so named it for one 

 or two correspondents. Ellis seems to have had the same misinformation given to him, as he 

 usually so named it. While in America we had no way of knowing the difference, in Europe 

 they should have known better, as there are abundant specimens of both species in all the 

 European museums, and the two species have little resemblance to each other. 



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