anum. Polyporus unknown to me, probably unnamed. I have looked 

 through my notes and photographs from Europe and find nothing at all 

 like it. It is close to Polyporus Spraguei, of the United States. Same 

 color, surface, and pores, but more scrupose and spores (3x5, piriform) 

 different. Scleroderma Sp. (very immature). Scleroderma flavidum. 



Clavaria rubroflava. The only truly "yellow" puff ball we have. I 

 have noted that it is "domestic" in its habits, usually found in gardens 

 and cultivated ground in the United States where it is not common. Mr. 

 Froggatt finds it in a garden at Croyden, Aus. It has previously been 

 collected in Australia by J. L. Boorman (cfr. Letter No. 23). 



PECKHOLT, GUSTAVO, Brazil: 

 Hexagona variegata. 



PERKIER DE LA BATHE, HENRI, Madagascar (d): 



We have received from Monsieur Perrier de la Bathe another very in- 

 teresting shipment (cfr. Letter No. 39). These specimens all came from 

 the Eastern section of Madagascar. 



Polyporus (Ganodermus, stipitate) dubiocochlear. Pileus with a dull, 

 brown, smooth, not laccate crust. Context dark umber, ferruginous. 

 Stipe short, dorsally adnate (or lateral), similar in color and crust to the 

 pileus, tubercular, as if abortively branched. Spores 6 x 10, smooth, trun- 

 cate at base. Pores minute, hard, compact. I rather suspect that this will 

 prove to be the same as the original Polyporus cochlear from Java, if the 

 type is ever found. It is not the same as cochlear in our pamphlet (Stipi- 

 tate Polyporoids), but as we there stated, we doubted its literal correct- 

 ness at the time. As to crust, color, context color, and spores, this plant 

 agrees with the common Fomes applanatus of Europe, but the pores are 

 smaller, harder, and similar to those of Polyporus fornicatus and mastoporus. 

 Besides, applanatus in Europe never has a stipe. The species belongs to 

 Section 2 of our Stipitate Polyporoids, and is the only species in this 

 section (excepting Africanus) which does not have a laccate crust. 



Polyporus (Amaurodermus) Bathei. Pileus unilateral (large speci- 

 mens an inch thick, 1% inches wide), with a smooth, dull, rugulose, sub- 

 zonate crust (not laccate). Stipe (5-8 mm. thick, 3-4 inches long), with a 

 long, rooting base, as long as the stipe, dorsally adnate. Surface smooth, 

 dull. Context scanty, umber in old specimens. Pores very minute, cinna- 

 mon, with concolorous mouths. Spores globose, colored, smooth, 10-12 mic. 

 in diameter. In surface, shape and stipe attachment (and these charac- 

 ters are of more value in this class of plants than is usually conceded) 

 there is but one other similar species to my knowledge, viz.: Polyporus 

 Alluandi, and it hasi entirely different spores. The plant is quite close to 

 Polyporus Auriscalpium of South America, and belongs in same section 

 (5 of Stipitate Polyporoids). 



Fomes sculpturatus (cfr. Letter 39). Two specimens, both prolonged 

 into a false stipe-like attachment behind. Spores are elliptical, 12 x 20, 

 brown, sculptured, but I am not so sure that they are conidial, as I had 

 supposed. Lentinus cirrhosus. Polystictus affinis. Cladoderris elegans, 

 only a form of spongiosus of Africa without the thick, spongy surface. 

 Lycoperdon gehimatum. Hypomyces (Sp.) parasitic on Hirneola (?). 



