from New Zealand and Tasmania. It has never been collected in Aus- 

 tralia, (cfr. Lye. Australia, etc., p. 6.) 



Aseroe rubra (small specimen), (cfr. Syn. Phalloids, p. 46.) 

 Also three Clavarias, a genus I do not know as to species. 



BASHAMBER, PROF. D. E., India: 



Polyporus (Ganodermus) Curtisii. Polyporus (Ganodermus) lucidus. 

 Polyporus (Sp.). Stereum (Sp.). Lenzites subferruginosus. 



Polyporus plorans. This species was originally described from 

 North Africa recently. 



BECKER, DR. H., South Africa: 



Fomes rimosus. Exactly same plant we have common on Acacia 

 trees in the United States. 



BERNIN, A., France: 



Daedalea quercina. Polystictus versicolor. Polyporus rufescens. 



BETHEL, E., Colorado: 



Lycoperdon pusillum. Polyporus alboluteus, showing how the species 

 bleaches in winter. Mitremyces Ravenelii (Hot Springs, Ark.). 



BOURDOT, L'ABBE, France (d) : 



Rev. Bourdot sends us an interesting collection of plants, practically 

 all of them rare species. We are particularly glad to get specimens of the 

 genera Sebacina and Eichleriella, as well as the critical collection of Porias. 



Polyporus Soloniensis, as regarded by Bresadola. This species is one of 

 the "lost" species of France, at least I think there is no specimen in any 

 museum nor recent record in French works. It was named by Dubois, 100 

 years ago, who recorded it common around Sologne, France, and stated the 

 inhabitants call it "chavancella" and prepared amadou from it. It is a large 

 plant, this specimen being eight inches thick and about sixteen inches wide. 

 The substance which is white is quite light and spongy. The species was 

 only known to Fries from the description and was compiled in Hym., 

 Europaei, next to Polyporus dryadeus with "context colored," where it does 

 not belong, if this is correctly referred. The spores are hyaline, piriform, 

 5x7. The plant is evidently very closely related to Polyporus sulphureus. 



Trametes gibbosa. Trametes subsinuosa. Polyporus chioneus. Thele- 

 phora spiculosa. Thelephora pallida. Thelephora intybacea (in sense of 

 Quelet, not Fries). Sebacina podlachica. Sebacina strigosa. Sebacina 

 calcea. Poria calcea. Poria fulviseda (An unpublished species of Rev. 

 Bresadola). Poria rhodella. Poria medulla-Panis. Poria sinuosa. Poria 

 gilvescens. Poria Friesiana. Poria obliqua. Poria purpurea. 



Poria aurantiaca. This species I have collected in Sweden and refer it 

 to Poria aurantiaca on Rostk. figure t. 58, which is a good figure of it when 

 fresh. In drying it changes from orange to reddish brown, a marked change. 

 Persoon's figure of Poria cruenta is, I think, the same made from a dried 

 specimen now in his herbarium (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 471). The plant has 

 been called (in error) Poria nitida, which is a quite different species ac- 

 cording to the type in Persoon's herbarium. 



Poria megalapora. Epithela Galzini. Fomes ribis. Fomes pomaceus 

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