aphanum (very rare) Thelephora Schweinitzii Geaster hygrometricus 

 Favolus europaeus Stereum fasciatum Irpex lacteus Polystictus per- 

 gamenus Lentodium squamulosum Trametes hispida Stereum spadi- 

 ceum Lenzites betulina Polyporus brumalis Polyporus picipes Poly- 

 stictus perennis Polyporus adustus Lenzites saepiaria Fuligo septica 

 Hydnum adustum, very doubtful. I do not know it. This reference is only 

 put forth as a possible solution. Polyporus induratus not published. 

 Daldinia vernicosa (young). Polyporus unknown to me, white. Spores 

 1 % x 5. Close to albellus but different surface. Polyporus. Unnamed I 

 think. Section Merismus, white, thin, with minute pores. Spores 3x4 

 guttulate. Leotia viscosa. Tremella which has been called Tremella foliacea 

 in American mycology but not the same I think as the European species. 



slender, deep colored. Setae large, curved, deep colored. Hymenial ele 

 Spores hyaline, 4-5 oval, smooth. As we have previously stated, perplexus 

 of Murrill was based on a guess that in the light of the evidence (cfr. Myc. N 

 has no probability even of truth. 



NOTE 25. Polyporus (Ganodermus) Oerstedii. Abundant specimens from D. F. O. 

 Jerruck, Karachi, India, correspond to Polyporus lucidus of Europe, has the same laccate 

 crust, context, context color, annual pores, spores, etc., and I question if a piece of the 

 pileus could be distinguished from a piece of lucidus. It never has a long, laccate stem 

 as the form of lucidus of Europe, although some of the specimens do have a short stem. 

 Nor is the resinous surface so strongly shiny as the typical lucidus of Europe. I do not 

 believe that the type form of lucidus in temperate regions is ever sessile, and the most 

 of these specimens are not only sessile but imbricate dimidiate. Hence while Polyporus 

 Oerstedii might be held as a form of lucidus, I think it is entitled to a distinct name. 

 This (or a similar) sessile form occurs (rarely) in Europe, when it is called Polyporus 

 resinaceus, and in the United States where it has lately been named Ganodermus sessile. 

 Polyporus Oerstedii has lately been published as a synonym for Fomes australis. but 

 that in my opinion is a gross error, for it is not a "Fomes" and has quite a different 

 (laccate) crust. 



NOTE 26. Fomes Pappianus received from D. F. O. Jerruck, Karachi, India, and 

 determined by Bresadola. When I received it I was inclined to refer it to rimosus as 

 it is very similar in all its leading characters. The pores of Pappianus however are 

 longer, the spores slightly larger and the crust smoother than in Fomes rimosus, but in 

 all of its essential characters it is very close to Fomes rimosus in its type form (from 

 Mauritius) (doubtful from Australia). Fomes rimosus is a very common plant on the 

 locust tree in the United States and agrees in every character with the type in Berkeley's 

 herbarium from Mauritius. It has been known, and correctly so, in American mycology 

 always as Fomes rimosus excepting Berkeley's and Schweinitz's early determination, where 

 it was referred to Fomes igniarius. Mr. Murrill (naturally) discovered it as a "new 

 species," calling it Fomes Robiniae, which would have been a good name for our American 

 plant. I find it very rarely in Samoa and the Samoan plant can not be told from the 

 American plant, either by macroscopic or microscopic characters. 



NOTE 27. Polyporus lucidus. These collections from C.-D. Mahaluxmivala, Munici- 

 pal Gardens, Bombay, ten in number, illustrate the difficulties in referring the polyporoid 

 collections to "species." The collector no doubt took them all for different species, and 

 yet for me they are but different conditions and forms of the same thing. While we 

 refer them to Polyporus lucidus of Europe, for all have the same texture spores, context 

 color, and essential characters, they differ in characters that are variable. The surface 

 is laccate to a more or less dgree. Some have the same surface exactly as the European 

 form. Others the color is more- yellow and not so strongly laccate. These correspond to 

 Polyporus Curtisii of our Southern United States. As to stipes none are exactly the 

 same as the European form. All are shorter and more obese. Two of the collections are 

 almost sessile. One could well be referred to Polyporus Oerstedii. What should be 

 done with the tropical forms of Polyporus lucidus is a question. Each specimen could be 

 called a "new species" for each differs from the other in socie respects, and these "pew 

 species" would have just as much value as many that are proposed on single collections 

 or as they say "known only from the type locality." 



NOTE 28. Fomes unknown to me and I presume unnamed, sent in by S. N. Ratnagar, 

 Hyderabad, India. It seems a good species and is unknown to me. It is very close to 

 Fomes robustus of Europe as to context color, bright cinnamon, and the spores hyaline, 

 globose 5-6 mic. It differs in having no crust, the surface being concolorous, also the 



