SECTION PELLOPORUS 36. 



We have a collection from Prof. A. Yasucla (No. 12), Semlai, Japan, which is 

 unknown to us and we believe unnamed. It seems to have an abortive ami probably 

 fictitious stipe. The color context and pores is ferrugineus. Setae none >i,.,r. - 

 globose 4-5 white (or perhaps very pale color). We would prefer not to name! it 

 until we learn more as to its normal stipe characters. 



SECTION PELLOPORUS 37C. 

 Context thin. Hymenium with Setae. 



HAMATUS. Mesopode, subcoriaceus, infundibuliform. Con- 

 text thin (not spongy). Setae slender curved. Spores colored, 

 elliptical, smooth, 5-6 x 8-9. 



I know this only from Romell's excellent description and figure 

 based on material from Brazil. It differs from all others of tin- sec- 

 tion Pelloporus in having setae. In the nature of the setae (rur\rd> 

 it is close to Polyporus circinatus (p. 159) in the section Spongiosus. 



SECTION OYINUS 39. 



We have an unnamed specimen from Prof. Petch, Ceylon, that we would refer 

 to this section, although it is thinner and not so fleshy as others in this section. 

 It might be included in Lentus, although as it grows in the ground in its habits it 

 is more allied to Ovinus. Prof. Petch tells me it is quite rare in Ceylon and grows 

 in circles. 



SECTION MELANOPORUS 44. 



HARTMANNI. The only collections are two at Kew and one recently re- 

 ceived by me from Miss Margaret Flockton, Australia. The spores are 5x12, 

 hyaline, smooth. The species is badly figured in the Handbook, as it is cvidtmlv 

 not red as shown, but brown. 



SECTION LENTUS 45 (d MICROPORl S). 



INCOMPTUS. This was given in my Synopsis as a synonym for Hal 1- 

 liformis, my view being based on a specimen named by Fries, which has a lateral 

 stipe. In the sense of the figure given in Reliquiae Af/elianae it has a meeopodial 

 stipe and is the same (and for me the correct name now) as what was called in my 

 pamphlet Polystictus Holstii. Fries evidently did not attach any value to t 1 

 mesopodial and pleuropodial characters in this section. 



SECTION LENTUS 46A. 

 He records 



PARTITUS (cfr. p. 175). Romell records and figures this plant fron 

 -ecords the spores as elliptical, "hyaline-luteolae" 7 x 11-12. 



SECTION MELANOPORUS 54. 



GUILFOYLEI AND WARBURGI ANUS. These two species arc not as rl..M- 

 as might be inferred from our figures. Guilfoylei is a pale colored plant and \\.ir 

 burgianus is almost black. Murrill refers Guilfoylei as a synonym for elegans. 

 is almost as bad a reference as his determination of scopulosus, hr>i u a 

 as Warburgianus. The five species Guilfoylei and elegans, anebus KOpul. 

 Warburgianus, which he has muddled have no resemblance and little r-la 

 to the other. 



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