SYNONYMS, MISTAKES, SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN 

 OR NOT KNOWN AT ALL, ETC. 



acupunctatus, Ceylon, Berkeley. Type is resupinate, fragments said to consist 

 of three species. 



Aegerita, Mexico, Fries. Xo type exists. Described as white with white, 

 floccose context. Description would indicate Fomes Laricis. 



albogriseus, United States, Peck. Based on a young specimen of Fomes 

 Laricis. 



albo-limbatus, Africa, Cooke. Xo type found by me. 



albo-marginatus, Java, Leveille. = Fomes kermes. The "white margin" is 

 "remarquable" for its absence not only from the type at Leiden, but from all the 

 many collections in the museums. It was thus misnamed through pure incompetency, 

 and the maintenance of such a misnomer is, in my opinion, without merit. 



Alni, Asia, Sorokin. Xo specimen seen nor the figure. I presume it was 

 Fomes roseus or Fomes pinicola. Either of them is probably a bad guess. 



angulus, Japan, Lloyd. Pidgin latin for Fomes angularis. 



anisopilus, Java, Leveille. Never was a "Fomes," but a thin Polystictus. 

 (Cfr. Letter 36.) 



apiahynus, Brazil, Spegazzini. Unknown. From the description it is im- 

 possible to tell eVen to what it is related. 



aratus, United States, Saccardo. Change of Ganodermus sulcatus, which 

 would not have been necessary had it been compiled in Vol. 21 instead of Vol. 17. 

 It is a synonym for Fomes zonatus. 



Auberianus, Cuba, Montagne. = Fomes lignosus. In the sense of early 

 American mycology' as determined in Europe for Langlois = Fomes geotropus. 



aulaxinus, Java, Bresadola. There is a cotype at Kew. I cannot note how it 

 can be distinguished from Fomes McGregorii. 



balabacensis, Philippines, Murrill, = Polyporus pediformis. 



bambusinus, China, Patouillard. This, as described, is a Polyporus rather 

 than a Fomes, as compiled in Saccardo. It resembles closely Polyporus licnoides as 

 to pores, color, setae, and spores. It bears colored, conidial spores of a different 

 type from its basidial spores. I would consider it a species of Polyporus, closely 

 related to Polyporus gilvus. 



bistratosus, Brazil, Berkeley. Type a "resupinate" piece, a Poria. 



Bonianus, China, Patouillard. Bresadola has referred this to Fomes pec- 

 tinatus. I think the type in Patouillard's herbarium is not Fomes pectinatus, but 

 Polyporus capucinus. 



Brownii, Europe, Humboldt, = Fomes rufo-flavus, teste Bresadola. 



brunneo-griseus, South America, Patouillard. Xot seen by me. Flesh brown. 

 "Spores hyaline, 5x6." Seems to belong to the fomentarius group. 



Cajanderi, Siberia, Karsten. Unknown. Xothing can be inferred from the 

 description. 



caliginosus, Borneo, Cesati. The cotype at Kew is the same as caliginosus of 

 Berkeley. Henning renamed Cesati's species (or rather Cesati's name) Fomes 

 Cesatianus, which was hardly necessary-. 



canaliculatus, Java, Patouillard. Unknown to me. Compared by author to 

 Fomes rufo-flavus. 



castaneus, Europe, Fries. Unknown, name change of populneus of Pollini. 

 The figure Pollini cited I have not located, but the description seems to be Fomes 

 annosus. 



Cedrelae, Jamaica, Murrill, = Fomes rimosus. 



cereus, Brazil, Rick (Xo. 108 attributed to Berkeley). There is some error, 

 as no such species was published by Berkeley. I would class it as a Trametes, and 

 have labeled the specimen Trametes farcta. Its relations are with Polyporus gilvus. 



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