that I am more than glad to get, as the only other specimen known is 

 the type at Kew. As to macroscopic characters, the color, the smooth but 

 rugulose surface and crust, the mesopodial, smooth but dull stem, the pale 

 context, it agrees with the type. The spores on the type are colored, globose, 

 and rough, but they impressed me and I believe them to be (as I have pub- 

 lished) conidial spores. The spores of this specimen are normal, basidial 

 spores (sans doubt). They are subglobose (8x10), colored strongly rough, 

 and typically the spores of the section Amaurodermus. This is a most 

 peculiar species, the only one in the section Amaurodermus (or other sections 

 as far as I can recall) that has a white context and colored spores. Many 

 species have colored context and white spores, but the reverse is a rare case. 

 Polystictus occidentalis. Stereum (Hymenochaete) damaecorne. Poly- 

 porus (Amaurodermus) angustus. Polyporus licnoides. Hexagona varie- 

 gata. Polystictus pinsitus. Polyporus Blanchetianus. Trametes hyd- 

 noides. Stereum (Hymenochaete) papyrinum? 



FETCH, PROF. T., Ceylon (r) : 



Fomes Caryophylli. Polyporus (sp.). Lenzites betulina. Stereum 

 ostrea, named by Professor Fetch. 



Hexagona elegans. These specimens are thinner than the type, as I 

 remember it. Also they have a reddish stain, not noticed by me, on the 

 type. The reference is not sure. 



Fomes robustus var. setelatus, resupinate. Fomes (Ganodermus) leu- 

 cophaeus. Polyporus semilaccatus. Polyporus zonalis ? 



Polystictus elongatus. The fresh specimens have pale pores, no 

 violaceous tint, otherwise same as Polystictus pergamenus, so common 

 in America. Fomes pectinatus. Agreeing with type from India, but the 

 records of this plant in Europe are all erroneous. Polyporus gilvus. 

 Trametes (or Polystictus) lutescens. Polystictus pictilis?? Polyporus 

 Blanchetianus. Polyporus arcularius. 



Fomes adamantinus var. setiferus, as I shall call it. This is a most 

 common species throughout the East, same as the type specimen of Fomes 

 adamantinus at Kew, except the common form has setae (not found on the 

 type) =Fomes melanodermus, which is the name Bresadola uses. Murrill 

 has three names for it (all wrong), Fomes lamaensis n. s., Fomes Williamsii 

 n. s., afterwards referred by him to endotheius, with which it has not a 

 character in common. 



Trametes Persoonii, form differing from ordinary in not being colored 

 on top, but this common species does not always have the usual color of 

 pileus top developed. 



Fomes robustus var. setelatus, as I shall call it. Absolutely same as 

 Fomes robustus, of Europe, in every particular except having very abundant 

 inflated setae on the hymenium, which are absent in the European species. 



Polyporus ochroleucus, readily known by its large, truncate, hyaline 

 spores. It turns black when old, and the spores of a black specimen I find 

 to be pale colored. Is Polyporus ochroleucus a Ganodermus ivhen old? 



RAY, JOGES, India: 



Polyporus (Ganodermus) lucidus. Schizophyllum commune. Poly- 

 stictus flavus. Polystictus sanguineus. Daldinia concentrica. Polyporus 



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