discovered a "new species" which he named Fomes megaloma, but did not leave 

 any evidence excepting Mr. Murrill's imagination as to its identity. The evidence 

 Leveille left was in the specimens labeled Fomes applanatus and Fomes fomen- 

 tarius (sic). The whole history is a fine example of the kind of work done by Le- 

 veille and the evidence on which Mr. Murrill published his opinions of such work. 



melanoporoides, East Indies, Cesati. No specimens found by me in any 

 museum, and it is said that no type exists. Undoubtedly, however, it was Fomes 

 melanoporus. Specimens so determined at Kew are Polyporus durus. 



Meliae, United States, Underwood. Types are old and discolored, but I be- 

 lieve old specimens of Fomes connatus. Recently determined specimens as Meliae 

 I am sure are connatus. 



Memorandus, South America, Spegazzini. Unknown, no specimen in the 

 museums. Description reads much like albo-ater. 



Merrillii, Philippines, Murrill, = Fomes endotheius. 



microporus, Jamaica, Swartz, = Fomes lignosus, and is the earliest name for 

 it. The type at British Museum is scanty and small, and for a long while I was in 

 doubt whether it was Polyporus zonalis or Fomes lignosus. Only recently I have 

 been able to satisfy myself. 



mirus, Siberia, Kalchbrenner. The type material I have noted is only a little 

 bundle of pores, but is the common Fomes fomentarius. Is it any wonder that 

 Kalchbrenner made so many startling discoveries in "science," if he thought the 

 common Fomes fomentarius was "marvellous?" 



mortuosus, Pacific Islands, Fries, = Fomes caliginosus teste Bresadola. 



Xeesii, Europe, Fries. Unknown either from specimen or figure. Fries col- 

 lected it on beech, and why he named it Neesii I do not know. The original descrip- 

 tion, "hardly a line thick," would indicate a Polystictus rather than a Fomes. 



nicaraguensis, Central America. Berkeley. No type exists. 



nigricans, Java, Junghuhn, = Fomes australis testes Fries. 



Novae-Angliae, United States, Berkeley. The type, a single specimen, is a 

 thin, brown Polyporus, closely related to Polyporus rutilans. I do not recognize 

 it as any species I know. The surface is brown, pubescent, context brown, and 

 pores brown. Setae, none. Hyphae pale colored. Spores no doubt white. It is 

 not a Fomes, nor has it the most remote suggestion even of being Fomes igniarius, 

 which Murrill vaguely guesses it to be. 



noveboracensis, United States, Saccardo. Given in Saccardo, Vol. 6, p. 192, 

 as a variety of scutellatus. Author not stated, as Saccardo seems to have followed 

 my plan of omitting advertisements. No such "variety" of scutellatus is known in 

 America. 



nubilus, Africa, Fries. No type exists, but teste Fries it was the same as fer- 

 reus of this pamphlet. In the sense of Patouillard, it is Trametes cingulata. 



ochrocroceus, Java, Hennings, = Fomes kermes. 



odora, Europe, Fries. See page 274. 



officinalis, Europe, Fries. This is Fries' name for Fomes Laricis, and is "legal" 

 now. The plant was known to the oldest authors and medical works as "fungus 

 laricis," etc. Rubel, in Jacquin Misc., Austria, 1778, had an article on the drug, 

 which he called Agaricum officinalis, and the plant was crudely figured (t. 20, 21) 

 and named (page 172) as Boletus Laricis. Gmelin changed it to Boletus purgans, 

 which was followed by Persoon. Fries, of course, could not follow Persoon, so he 

 dug up an old name of Villars, Boletus officinalis, based on the Latin name for the 

 drug instead of the name for the species. 



oleicola, Africa, Hennings. Type not found by me at Berlin. 



orbiformis, Africa, Fries. The type at Upsala is a subresupinate Ganodermus. 

 It is said to be the same plant that I call mastoporus. I hold the type to be inade- 

 quate to decide. 



oxyporus, Europe, Sauter. No specimen known to me. It is said to be Fomes 

 connatus. 



pachydermus, Philippines, Bresadola, = adamantinus, and so corrected by 

 the author. 



Palliser, British America, (Berkeley Mss.) Cooke. This was also named by 

 Berkeley in mss. Trametes arctica, and we adopt the mss. name instead of the 

 published name, as neither the publication, description, or specimen that Cooke 

 published as "Polyporus Palliser Berk." had any reference or resemblance to plant 



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