Kansensis, United States, Ellis. I have seen no material but it is referred 

 as a synonym for Polyporus radicatus by Murrill. I am inclined to doubt the 

 reference, as it grew on logs and and I think radicatus never grows on logs. If 

 the spore measurements given by Ellis are correct, "5 x 6-8," it is surely not 

 a synonym for radicatus for the spores are only about half the size of those 

 of radicatus. This is probably the source from which Murrill got his erroneous 

 spore record of radicatus. 



laeticolor, United States, Murrill. Name being preoccupied has been changed 

 to Polyporus luteoluteus by Professor McGinty. Name from lutum, mud, and 

 luteus, yellow, that being the color of the fresh plant as described. 



Michelii, Europe, Fries, was based on an old, crude figure of Micheli (T. 61, 

 f. 2) which tells nothing whatever except that it had large pores and was said 

 to be white. As no one has met any such plant since the days of Micheli, one 

 hundred and fifty years ago, we might as well forget it. 



Morganii, United States, Peck. Well known for years to have been based 

 on a small specimen of Polyporus radicatus and both Morgan and Peck have so 

 admitted to me. 



myclodes, Australia, Kalchbrenner. See page 79. 



nodipes, India, Berkeley. No type exists. 



Novo-guineensis, New Guinea, Hennings. Although it bears Hennings' ad- 

 vertisement, the only specimen I have found is at Kew. It was evidently a 

 fleshy, mesopodial plant which has turned black in drying. It might be recog- 

 nized on comparison, but I think little can be told of the characters of the fresh 

 plant from this material. See page 87. 



olivaceo-fuscus, Ceylon, Berkeley. Known from two thin sections of a small 

 immature specimen, from which nothing can be told excepting the collector's 

 notes "whole plant dull olive-brown." It is most probably a young Boletus. 



pallidus, Europe, Schulzer. The type drawing found in Fries' collection is 

 surely only a small, scaled form of Polyporus squamosus. Professor Peck's 

 determinations are rather Rostkowii, the scaleless form of the same species. 

 See page 85. 



persicinus, United States, Berkeley. This plant has no relation to the sec- 

 tion Ovinus. Mr. Murrill however puts it in this section and tells a most 

 amusing romance about it. He provided for it a "stem, central, thick, conical, 

 dark-purple, 5 cm. long, 4-8 cm. thick." He might just as well and with as much 

 truth have provided it with a cloven hoof and a forked tail. The plant is sessile 

 and grew flat on the side of a tree and has no stem of any kind. 



poripes, United States, Fries. No type exists and no plant known to me 

 in the United States that corresponds to the description. Fries got it from 

 Curtis and cites Curtis' number 552. It may be found in the Curtis herbarium 

 at Cambridge. There is nothing at Upsala and at Kew I have not noted this 

 number. Berkeley endorsed on the Curtis manuscript a note opposite this number 

 "very near Polyporus pes-caprae," but did not publish it in the synopsis in 

 Grevillea. Ravenel distributed cristatus as "poripes, Fr." but the determination 

 is without value. The same can be said of Murrill's guess that it is a prior name 

 for flavo-virens. 



punctiporus, Europe, Britzelmayr. Not worth the trouble to look it up, 

 as nothing whatever can be told from Britzelmayr's cartoons. 



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