(subresupinate). Polyporus trabeus. Polystictus versicolor. Stereum san- 

 guinolentum. Stereum Chailletii. Irpex pachydon. 



Polyporus benzoinus. The identity of this plant with our common plant 

 in America (called resinosus) has long been a disputed question. On com- 

 parison, the European plant is decidedly more ligneous and the context not 

 nearly as soft as in our plant. 



Polyporus elegans. Polyporus Hohnelii. Polyporus albus. Poria 

 aneirina. 



Hydnum Schiedermayeri. This species, which is not unusual, both in 

 Europe and America, and peculiar in always growing on an apple-tree trunk 

 (not known from any other host), appears in Fries under the above (out- 

 landish) name. Recently it has been referred, in this country, to croceum 

 of Schweinitz, and in Europe to setosum of Persoon, both on the celebrated 

 principle of "priority." The first is only a guess and probably a bad one, 

 as no evidence exists and there is nothing in Schweinitz' short "description" 

 to give any clue even to its identity. As to the second I do not know, but I 

 suspect it is wrong, as Persoon would hardly have described it as "white" 

 unless he had been color blind. 



Corticium expallens. Corticium filicinum (Cotype). Eichleriella leu- 

 cophoea. Eichleriella Kmetii. 



BRACE, L. J. K., Bahamas: 



Fomes leucophaeus. Stipitate form. Geaster saccatus. Pluteus (sp.). 



Simblum sphaerocephalum. Formalin material. Color deep red. The 

 net is broken in fragments and such material (I have been recently told by 

 Mr. Long) was submitted to Atkinson, on which he made the wonder- 

 ful discovery of his imaginary "Dictybole" (cfr. Myc. Notes, pp. 130 and 

 -363). The statement on page 363 that the genus was based on some ab- 

 normally developed eggs is an error, I am told by Mr. Long, due to a 

 wrong impression on my part, but the true story of this wonderful discovery 

 only makes it worse for the author. 



Laternea triscapa. Formalin material. Agreeing exactly with the 

 old figure as to size, but the first specimen known. The columns are fluted 

 exactly as those of Laternea columnata, and Laternea triscapa is surely only 

 a depauperate specimen (or form) of Laternea columnata. 



Mr. Brace sends me also a sketch of a Laternea with two columns only 

 < shown), which appears to be a two-columned form of Laternea col- 

 umnata. The plant is orange above and the lower portion of the columns 

 white. If these are constant characters of the phalloid, it is a "new 

 species," but the probabilities are it is only a sport of Laternea columnata. 



Polystictus albidus. Name attributed to Quelet and seems to corre- 

 spond to a specimen so named I have from Italy. I think a good "form" 

 but, except color, has all characters of versicolor. 



BREDA DE HAAN, DR. J. VAN, Java (e): 



Polyporus. Color gray, sordid, with a rough surface. Pores minute, 

 sordid. Spores 4x8, hyaline. This is not known to me surely, although it 

 seems to answer my photograph of the type of Polyporus ostreiformis at 

 Kew. It does not all agree with the description, however, but that does not 

 count for much. It should be compared with the type. It is quite close to 

 our plant in United States, Polyporus Spraguei. 



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