SECTION MERISMUS. 



SYNONYMS, REJECTED AND UNKNOWN SPECIES. 



acanthoides, Europe, Bulliard. In the sense of Fries a flabelliform speci- 

 men of rufescens. In the sense of Bulliard a poor picture of giganteus. Used 

 as a juggle for giganteus by Quelet. 



alligatus, Europe, Fries. Based on Sowerby, t. 422, but no such species 

 known. The picture probably represents an unusual development of rufescens. 



amygdalinus, United States, Berkeley. The type is very poor, so poor I 

 doubt that it could be recognized on comparison. Said by Ravencl, the collector, 

 to have a strong odor of vanilla or almond. It does not belong in the section 

 Merismus. 



anax, United States, Cooke. Berkeley's manuscript name for the plant 

 that had been named Polyporus Berkeleyi. The species was one of Cooke's 

 posthumous varieties. 



Barrelieri, Europe, Viyiani. Plate 28 cited by the author is a good picture 

 of sulphureus. Plate 36, cited by Fries, is frondosus. 



Beatiei, United States, Peck=Berkeleyi. 



bonariensis, South America, Spegazzini. Unknown. 



botryoides, "incog.," Leveille=Fomes graveolens, which being such an ob- 

 vious fact, was a long time being found out. I dug the type out of a cup- 

 board at Paris and at once recognized it. 



caespitosa, Brazil, Cooke (as Beccariella)=fimbriatus. 



candidus, Europe, Roth. Unknown to me. No illustration. Xo specimens in 

 museums. Bresadola told me that he considers it a good species, but I only 

 know what he told me in conversation. I have never seen the plant. 



casearius, Europe, Fries. Generally admitted to be only a discolored form 

 of sulphureus. 



Ceratoniae, Europe, Risso. Based on Barla's Icon. t. 30, f. 1-3, which is 

 surely only sulphureus. 



Cincinnatus, United States, Morgan=sulphureus, a bright colored form that 

 grows in great abundance at the base of stumps, at Preston, Ohio. 



conglobatus, United States, Berkeley graveolens. 



discolor, Mauritius, Klotzsch=sulphureus. 



eurocephalus, Ceylon, Berkeley. The type is much decayed and full of 

 globose, strongly asperate, hyaline spores. Teste Petch, these are spores of a 

 Hypomyces, and in viewing them in that light I think it is correct, though I 

 had no suspicion of it when I examined it and mistook them for the spores 

 of the plant. 



flabellatus, Europe, Bresadola. From the description I think it is the same 

 plant as has been distributed from Tirol by Toldt as Polyporus imbricatus. In 

 my opinion it is an abnormal development of Polyporus sulphureus. 



Glaziovii, Brazil, Berkeley. This was included in Cooke's Praecursores 

 twice, No. 166 and No. 394, the first as a Polyporus, the second as a "Fomes," 

 and both with the same citation. The second as a "Fomes" is a Polyporus 

 (cfr. page 135) and the first as a Polyporus in section Merismus is an illusion 

 or error of some kind. 



Glaziovii (bis), Brazil, Hennings=Talpae. 



helopus, Exotic, Patouillard. This is based on a single specimen preserved 

 in the museums at Paris. It is probably abnormal and surely adventitious and 

 was found in the Jardin des Plantes. 



imbricatus, Europe, Bulliard. Said by Fries to be rare and local in Sweden 

 and is unknown to any one now. I think it was based on intybaceus that 

 grew horizontal, hence the lobes are more flat The common plant called 

 intybaceus in England is surely frondosus. Most modern books carry both, but 

 I think no one knows two different plants to correspond. 



irregularis, England, Sowerby. The Icones 423 was referred to amorphus 

 by Fries. The color is not right for amorphus. When Berkeley first met 

 Polyporus Wynnei he referred it to this picture and sent specimens to Mon- 

 tagne. It has a general resemblance to Wynnei, but Sowerby's mention of 

 "shallow pores" does not accord. 



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