SECTION PETALOIDES 12. 



OSSEUS (Fig. 496, page 188). -We have not included l'ulv,*,r, osaeun -, 

 the stipitate species, although as the pilei taper to short stem- ike I, ,M- 

 be sought in this section. Its general habits of growth are imbricate?^ n a n x 

 sessile species belonging to the section Apus of Fries. \\V know of no ,,i her Bpede. 

 similar in this respect. Polyporus osseus is a rather rare plant in E uro,>, as n i> 

 T '.K St ates. The flesh when growing is firm and m drvm* become* quite 



hard, hence it is not badly named. The European plant i> white ? t.,r as I 1, ve 

 seen specimens, but the American plant is gray. I have known it in America for 

 years without a name for it, for I did not associate it with the white l-nro^-.m 

 species. However, Bresadola so refers my American specimens, and I U-lieve 

 correctly. (See Figure 496, page 188). 



SECTION PETALOIDES 13. 



FRACTIPES. This has a lateral stem and is a white plant. The "t>|K-" 

 specimen of fractipes may have had its stem broken, but the name has no applica- 

 tion to the plant usually, and it seems a pity to have a plant so misnamed on account 

 of an accidental feature of the type. It grows more common in the South, bin lu> 

 been found by Peck and called Polyporus humilis. It also reaches me from Rex 

 Rick, Brazil. 



Polyporus Peckianus is a yellow plant with a central stem. It is xvry rare 

 and I have but two collections (D. B. Griffin, Vermont, and A. S. Bertolet, Canada i. 

 It is given as a synonym for fractipes by Murrill, but differs entirely. He i.ill- 

 the plant "fractipes Berk." and draxvs the description from Peck's specimen. Me 

 puts it in the section Merismus, and neither fractipes nor Peckianus belongs tin-re. 

 One belonging to the section Petaloides with lateral stem, the other to Lent us with 

 a central stem. 



SECTION PETALOIDES 15. 



MODESTUS AND RUBIOUS. The former is frequent in South America, 

 the latter in the East, and I have been very much puzzled to decide if they are the 

 same or different species. Both, I think, are rose-colored when fresh, but the old 

 specimens I have seen are more brown, having lost the fresh color. Romell records 

 both from Brazil (with different spores), but as he compares the color of rubidus 

 with vinosus I judge the determination is doubtful. At Leiden I haxv seen old 

 specimens determined as rubidus which are dimidiate and imbricate, but I do not 

 know if correct or not. 



Modestus is confused in the Kunze exsiccatae, the specimen at Kexv not being 

 the same as the type at Upsala. Berkeley at first had it right, but afterwards 

 misled by the Kunze misdetermination he referred it usually to albo-cervinus, 

 which is a synonym for modestus. 



SECTION PETALOIDES 17. 



MUSASHIENSIS (page 135, fig. 436). This, I think would haxe been better 

 placed in a section of Lignosus than Petaloides. It should go in Section lie, being 

 the only species in the section with setae. In its structure it is allied to \\\u>, etc. 

 My reference of Mr. Kawamura's specimen to Henning's species, on the description 

 only is of course doubtful. The specimen was submitted to Bresadola and was un- 

 known to him, and he probably is acquainted xvith Musashiensis. 



SECTION PETALOIDES 18A. 



PERVERSUS We have so indicated a form of Polyporus grammoccpli.ilii>. 

 xvhich was collected by Copeland (No. 18) in the Philippines and recorded and . 

 tributed to three museums in Europe as being coracmus, as named by .Mr. Alurnl 

 This collection was probably so named by Mr. Murrill, but is quite different i 

 structure in having no cystidia whatever. The original coracmus has xcry pen 

 cystidia I am told by Bresadola, and is the same or close to cinnamomeo-squai 

 osus as illustrated, Fig. 441. I have not seen the original of coracmus, an 

 learned of the mistake I took these Copeland specimens in good faith. 



