ADDENDA. 



NOTES. COMMENTS AND OMISSIONS. 



The following points have come up since this pamphlet has 



been in type. We include here some comments on Romell's article 



on Brazilian fungi, a critical and valuable paper which we did not 



have at Kew, when the main portion of this pamphlet was written. 



MESOPODIAL AND PLKfROPODIAI.. 



These terms which are really coined words, meaning central and exccntric 

 stemmed, are for the most part spelled Mesopodal and Pleuropodal in the body of 

 the work. The correct spelling is probably Mesopodial and Plcuropodial to corre- 

 spond with the word podial as spelled in the Century- Dictionary. 



jnary. 



SECTION GANODERMUS 2. 



LUCIDUS. Several collections received from C. D. Mahaluxmirala shows that 

 this is one of the most puzzling and variable species in the tropics. The tropical 

 form so referred are not as strongly laccate as the European form. The stem is 

 usually shorter, thicker, and often mesopodial. It is usually pleuporodial in temper- 

 ate regions. It varies in the tropics also greatly as to the color. Numerous inter- 

 mediate species connect it with Curtisii. 



SECTION AMAURODERMUS 5. 



AURISCALPIUM. A fine collection has recently been received from C.ustav 

 Peckolt, Brazil. It is evidently quite a common plant in Brazil. The stipe pro- 

 ceeds from a deep rooting rhizome and probably connected with a creeping rhizome, 

 though none of these specimens show it. 



Most of the specimens are "auriscalpium" in shape, though some are meso- 

 podial. I expect in time that Auriscalpium, omphalodes, praetervisus, bolcticeps, 

 and rufobadius will all prove to be one and the same species. 



SECTION AMAURODERMUS 5. 



CHAPERI (Page 112, fig. 406). We have recently received a specimen from 

 (iustav Peckolt, Brazil, which is the second specimen known. The original in the 

 museum at Paris was supposed to come from Cuba. 



It has a character that I have noted in but very few species (Polyporu- vi-rm- 

 cosus p. 182, and Fomes pachyphloeus Myc. Notes Pol. Issue, p. 34). The ligneous, 

 colored, hyphae fibrils of the pore walls are pointed on the ends and project int.. 

 the pores simulating the colored setae of many species, which are called cyvtkfaa, 

 and which are distinct from the subhymenial tissue. 



SECTION AMAURODERMUS 5. 



RUDIS. Specimens received from Australia are much larger than any in the 

 museums of Europe. One specimen had a pileus eight inches in diameter. 



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VARIABILIS (cfr. p. 111). I think this is only known from the original 

 collections of Spruce (No. 57 and 183 part) and Berkeley confused under this name 

 two quite different species. Romell refers here and figures a plant from Brazil 

 that must be different, first in its dark color (atrocastaneus). Variabilis 

 colored Second, in its much more obese habits (cfr. Romell s figure, Tab. 2, I. .61. 

 with our figure 405 of the type). Third, in the spores described as grai 

 and they are smooth as far as I can note in the type. 



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