LETTER No. 39. 



February, 1912. 



Report of specimens received since the publication of our last letter. 

 We beg to thank our correspondents for continuing to send us specimens 

 for study. There are accumulating in the museum more specimens of fungi 

 than have ever been gotten together in one collection and we are still want- 

 ing more. It is only by constant handling that anything of value can be 

 learned regarding species of fungi. One collection does not make a species 

 and it is unfortunately true that the greater part of "literature" is devoted 

 to this kind of "new species." We are not half as much interested in "new 

 species" as we are in the old species, their characters, distribution, and 

 variation, and it is only by abundant collections that the truth can be 

 learned. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS. 



Heretofore, we have had our foreign correspondence and specimens sent 

 to Paris, No. 63 Rue Buffon, and the specimens sent there would reach me 

 with some delay. Those correspondents living in countries having parcels 

 post arrangements with the United States can send them more quickly if 

 sent direct by parcel post, but specimens should not be sent in the open mail 

 to the United States as many of them are lost in the mails. The English 

 postal service is more satisfactory and specimens sent even in the open mails 

 to our English address will reach us with very little delay. We have 

 arranged with Mr. Skan to forward to us promptly such specimens as come 

 to our address in his care. We will therefore ask our correspondents re- 

 siding in counti'ies where there is no parcel post with the United States 

 to send their specimens c/o Mr. Skan. But few countries have parcels post 

 arrangements direct with the United States. 



Please use this address for all This address for specimens sent 



specimens not sent by parcel post: by parcel post only: 



C. G. LLOYD, C. G. LLOYD, 



c/o Mr. S. A. Skan, 224 W. Gourt St., 



No. 37 Holmes Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 



Twickenham, England. U. S. A. 



Specimens received since last report are as follows: 



AMES, FRANK H., New York: 



Polystictus biformis Polyporus rufescens. This is rather a rare 

 species in the United States in its perfect form. The abortive form (Poly- 

 porus distortus) is far more common. Stereum tuberculosum although this 

 has a reflexed pileus, and tuberculosum is given as a resupinate species. The 



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