think, is often confused with Sparassis crispa. I should not be surprised if it turned out 

 that Sparassis spathulata is the same as Sparassis laminosa of Europe. On comparison 

 they seem very close to me. 



NOTE 52. Glischroderma cinctum. Sent by Carleton Rea. Worcester. England. 

 These are the first specimens we have ever seen of this rare little "puff ball.'' Fuekel 

 named it and distributed it in his exsiccatae, but in all the specimens we have- examined 

 there are no fungi, only a' little charred wood. It was well illustrated by Fuekel, and 

 there is no question of Mr. Rea's determination. 



Glischroderma cinctum is about the size of a pea, and resembles Lyeotrala E],iden- 

 drum. The peridium is cartilaginous and surrounded at the base by a white mycelium 

 pad. The gleba is pale, argillaceous. The spores globose, 4 mic., slightly rough, and 

 subhyaline under the microscope, Oapillitium scanty, but peculiar, of hyaline, septate, 

 threads 6-7 mic. thick. Fuekel gave a good description, but erred in describing it as 

 "floccis destitutis." 



NOTE 53. Stereum versicolor. Sent by L. Romell, Sweden. This most abundant 

 species in the United States and the tropical world in general, is strangely rare in 

 Europe, and, curiously enough, is there only known from the extreme northern regions. 

 Pries, who knew it scantily from Finland, called it Stereum arcticum. according to the 



ochroleucum, at least I have seen Swedish species so labeled, but the specimen at 

 Cpsala is now endorsed "=hirsutum." . 



NOTE 54. Auricularia mesenterica ! ! ! Sent by Mr. James R. Weir. Montana. Ex- 

 actly same as European plant and first specimens I have seen from United States. It 

 was recorded from the East years ago by Frost, but must be a very rare plant, for there 



record of the plant in the writings of any recent American, collector. An English 

 myeologist (W. X. Cheeseman) collected it recently in Western Canada. 



NOTE 55. Daedalea confragosa, with red stain. Sent by James R. Weir. Montana. 

 This is the form with a red stain which is rare in the United States, but more frequent in 

 Europe. A monograph might be written regarding the forms that the polymorphic 

 Daedalea confragosa takes. What is called in Europe Lenzites tricolor is very similar 

 to this form with the red stain. 



Daedalea confragosa is the type form and has hymenium that runs from the 

 Trametes form through the Daedalea into the Lenzites form, all in the same collection, 

 and the variation of the hymenium was noted by Persoon and Bulliard over one hundred 

 years ago. This is the common form on willow. Lenzites rubesr-ens is the same thing, 

 fresh, with the delicate, incarnate color the plant loses when old. Trametes Bulliardii is 

 the trametcs form. Lenzites tricolor is the form with a deep, red stain usually found 



Southern United States. " 



In addition, we have received some quite decided but unnamed forms from Japan. 



NOTE 56. Cantharellus clavatus. Sent by Mr. James R. Weir, Montana. In Fries 

 as a Craterellus, but it is a good Cantharellus, as shown in Fries' excellent figure 

 (Sven atl. Svamp t. 91), and why Fries classed it as a Craterellus I do not understand. 

 It is a rare plant in Sweden and I have seen it but once before. I have never known 

 of its previous occurrence in this country. The records in the East (Peck's at least) 

 are based on a form of Clavaria pistillaria, which Fries called Craterellus pistillaria. 



The spores of Craterellus clavatus are said to be ochraceous in Europe. I have 

 no spore notes on my Swedish collection, and have mislaid the specimen so that I 

 can not compare spores, but the spores of Mr. Weir's collection appear to me hyaline 

 under the microscope. 



NOTE 57. A Stipitate Scleroderma. From Dr. Mary S. Whetstone. Minnesota. I 

 presume I have a thousand different collections of Scleroderma from United States and 

 Europe, and this is the first specimen of a Scleroderma with a distinct stipe I have ever 

 seen from these countries. Notwithstanding, I do not consider it a "new species," 

 but a specimen of Scleroderma Cepa with an accidental stipe, quite distinct, however, for 

 it is over an inch long. There are species of Scleroderma with normal stipes in Ceylon 

 and Africa, but none in Europe or America. 



NOTE 58. Fomes roburneus? Sent by Mr. E. Woulff, Russia. Resupinate. Close, 

 but not exactly same as Fomes igniarius. The color is close, but more reddish. Spores 

 hyaline 4x5 are same. It has rare setae, said to occur also on Fomes igniarius (but 

 I have never found them). Fries states that Fomes roburneus is "laccate." and the 

 only type specimen (at Kew) does seem to me to bear this out to a degree. These speci- 

 mens from Mr. Woulff are not "laccate, " but seem to have same color and setae as the 

 little fragment of type at Kew. 



XOTE 59. Polypoms Yasudai. Received from Prof. A. Yasuda, Sendai, Japan. 

 Plant small, fleshy, belonging to the section Lentus. About two inches tall and an inch 

 in diameter. Pileus bluish gray when fresh, reddish brown when dry, viscid, the gluten 

 quite evident even on the dried specimen. Flesh thin 1 mm. white, brittle when dry. 

 Pores small, round, white, decurrent down the stipe. Stipe mesopodial, 1 to 2 inches long. 



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