O'CONNOR, CHARLES, Mauritius, (No. 11): 



Fomes pachyphloeus. This species has very peculiar, microscopic 

 structure, from which it can not be recognized. Superficially r 

 Fomes fasciatus for which I at first mistook it without examining it 



FELIPPONE, DR. FLORENTINO, Uruguay, (No. 447): 



Fomes (unnamed). Context rhei color. Spores colored, sulurlo- 

 bose, 6-7 mic. Setae not found. The above are the leading features of Uu- 

 species. It is close to Fomes Eberhartii of the United States, which, how- 

 ever, has abundant setae. It may have been named by Spegazzini, but in 

 Europe there is no way of knowing what he has named. 



LUJA, EDOUARD, Congo Beige: 



Polyporus vinosus, much thicker than the type from the West 

 Indies, but on comparison I think it is the same. The peculiar, dark, 

 vinous color of the pores is quite characteristic, and the plant is well named. 

 Bresadola (cfr. Rev. Myc. 1890, p. 31) gives also the following synoi 

 badius, Jungh. Zoll. Plant. Java No. 10; Mollerinus, Saccardo, vol. 9, p 

 and tristis as Trametes by Leveille. These specimens are quite dimidiate, 

 but it is said to vary, sometimes stipitate. 



USSHER, C. B., Straits Settlements, (No. 12): 



Fomes mirabilis (as Mr. Ussher will call it). A unique sp- 

 not approximating any ether known. Pileus hard, woody, with a hard, 

 rugulose, zoned, smooth crust which is brown when wet, pale when dry. 

 Context yellowish when wet but pale when dry, hard, woody with hyaline 

 hyphae. Pores minute, hard, woody, pale brownish context with stuffed, 

 bright yellow mouths. Spores globose, 7-8, light brown color, smooth. This 

 plant is strongly marked, the only Fomes known with such strongly yello 

 pore mouths. As to spores it is an Amaurodermus (section), as to 

 pore color, and general appearance it is a Ganodermus (section), and it i 

 neither. 



JAR VIS, EDMUND, Australia: 



Fomes pomaceus (form). This Australian form has 

 microscopic characters as the common plant of Europe but the con 

 is brighter (rhei), and the pore mouths are soft to the touch. 

 tralian has these features as a usual character, it should have a m 

 variety. 



LUJA, EDOUARD, Congo Beige: 



Fomes unknown to me. In its external characters, tl 

 margin, purplish, velutinate hymenium, it is like torulosus, but t 

 are pale colored, globose 3^-4. 



= Daedalea moUis, tart. Bresado... I 8 hou.d 



never have so referred it. 



