peculiar min-oii- -ei>n<-< ';////< --<nuti< " context. This specimen was sent to me labeled Femes 

 Pappianus but it is quite different from that species (as named for me by the author) in 

 essential characters. 



NOTE 29. Podaxon calyptratus ( ?) from S. N. Ratnagar, Hyderabad, India. The 

 species of Podaxon have never been worked out historically. Several of them reached 

 Europe in very early days and their identity rests on old specimens in out of the way 

 museums. Exactly the same plant that Mr. Ratnagar sends is found at Kew "collected 

 Rawni Pin.dee Aitchison, Aug., 1878. Eaten by the natives," and referred to Podaxon 

 calyptratus Fr. This specimen is cited in Saccardo "Punjab Aitchison." Fries' name 

 was based on Bosc's old figure from Senegal and its identity with this Indian plant is 

 of course doubtful. The type of Podaxon calyptratus if it exists is probably at Padua, 

 Italy, but no one has seen it. Mr. Ratnagar sends the specimen as ''an edible fungus 

 found on the banks of canals and in cultivation." 



NOTE 30. Phellorina inquinans, from S. N. Ratnagar, Hyderabad, India. The genus 

 Phellorina may be considered as a single species. Collections vary as to the length of 

 the stipe and the scaliness of the peridium, but all have the same gleba and spores. 

 The genus is rare in most countries, most common in Mediterranean regions. It affects 

 sandy soil. Aitchison on the Afghanistan Boundary Commission reports it "Fungus pro- 

 fuse everywhere, some being large to a foot in height." His specimens were named 

 "Xylopodium Aitchisoni, " but the specimens at Kew are the same species as Phellorina 

 Delastrei of Algeria and only a more scaly form of the plant Mr. Ratnagar sends. 



NOTE 31. Polystictus semisanguineus as I shall call a specimen received with 

 Polystictus sanguineus from H. N. Ridley, Singapore. Straits Settlements. While it may 

 be a form of the common sanguineus, it is very different from the ordinary form and 

 of the hundreds of specimens of sanguineus I have seen, I never saw one like it before. 

 The color is not deep red, but pale mottled rrd. It is thicker than sanguineus and the 

 strongest difference is the surface is not smooth like sanguineus, but soft, pubescent and 

 feels like chamois skin. I think it worthy of a name. 



NOTE 32. Pterula densissima Berkeley I presume. From Dr. M. S. Whetstone, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. I have heretofore referred our American plant to Pterula multifida 

 Fr. but since becoming acquainted with the European plant in Sweden I think our 

 American plant is distinct. 



NOTE 33. We have received from Mr. E. B. Sterling, Trenton, N. J., very large 

 specimens of Polyporus Berkeleyi. These specimens weigh respectively 19 and 24 Ibs. 

 Polyporus Berkeleyi is the largest species of Polyporus we have in the United States, 

 and attains a greater size than the similar plant, Polyporus giganteus, notwithstanding 

 the name of the latter. 



Owing to its large size it is strange to me that it is not referred by Mr. Murrill 



emblance to Polvporus colos 



NOTE 34. Polyporus auriscalpium (Auiaurodermus). A nice collection has been 

 received from Gustav Peckolt, Rio, Brazil. It agrees exactly with Persoon's original 

 specimen at Paris. It grows from a long straight root-stalk. Most but not all specimens 

 are "Auriscalpium" in shape. Some are almost mesopodial. In fact, it may develop in 

 time that Polyporus omphalodes of Berkeley is the same thing. 



NOTE 35. Polyporus Chaperi (Amauroderrnus). A specimen received from G. Peck- 

 olt is the second specimen known. This is a finer specimen than the type at Paris. 

 The surface is rugulose zoned, but glabrous. Color reddish brown. Stipe mat with 

 sterile branches as in the type. This species has a structure that I did not note when I 

 examined the type. The fibrous tissue of the tubes consists of long, deeply colored, pointed 

 hyphae, the ends often projecting into the tubes and appearing like colored setae of other 

 species. I have noted a similar structure in Fomes pachyphloeus. but if this is a char- 

 acter of the type specimen of Polyporus Chaperi (and it must be if this is correctly 

 named), I did not notice it. Spores are globose, smooth, pale colored, 10-12 mic. 



NOTE 36. Irpex coriaceus is a plant of the American tropics said to have several 

 synonyms. The teeth have a peculiar greenish olive color by which it is known at once. 

 Rev. Rick distributes it as Poria portoricensis. which was named, I think, from the 

 description, as I have never found any type at Upsala. though there may be a cotype at 

 Berlin. Hydnum trachyodon, as guessed in Saccardo. is the same tiling (type at Paris). 

 The plant is best known from Berkeley's naming, from the Southern Uniied Sutcs \\ line it is quilt' 

 frequent. 



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