in Montagne's herbarium. On comparing it again, we question it 

 much, and particularly as the whole section Microporus is so rare 

 in American tropics. Polystictus subaffinis differs from Polystictus 



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Fig. 755. 



affinis in its much paler color and absence of stipe. It is close to 

 vernicipes, but much thinner, and from subvernicipes differs in much 

 paler color. We have specimens from Java with short stipe, and a 

 collection from Madagascar that is intermediate between the Java 

 plant and Polyporus vernicipes. 



TRAMETES INCONDITA (Fig. 756), FROM P. VAN DE 

 BIJL, SOUTH AFRICA. There is more rejoicing in heaven over 

 the one lost sheep that returned to the fold than over the ninety and 



Fig. 756. 



Trametes incondita. 



nine that went not astray. There is more pleasure in getting a definite 

 meaning for an old, indefinite name than in proposing a dozen so- 

 called new species. Trametes incondita was named by Fries in 1838, 

 from South African specimens, collected by Afzelius. No specimen 

 is preserved either in Fries' herbarium at Upsala or any other museum 

 of Europe, nor has this plant since been received in any museum. 



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