NOTE 74. Stereum duriusculus, received from Jintaro Umemura, Nagoya, Japan. 

 Compared with the type, at Kew. This is a thick, rigid species, evidently perennial. The 

 hymenium is white and it turns brown on bruising, but does not turn red as does the 

 very closely related Stereum rugosum of Europe. The context color is pale isabelline, 

 and a thin section shows subhyaline hyphae variegated with layers of brown. It was 

 originally from Ceylon, and the type is the only collection at Kew. 



75. Trametes odorata, sent by Jintaro Umemura, Nagoya, Japan. 



NOTE 76. Polyporus Schweinitzii, received from G. Peckolt, Brazil. Though quite 

 different in its manner of growth, with th.e same color, context, pores, spores, and all 

 characters other than manner of growth we must so refer this plant. These specimens 

 consist of numerous pilei that grew imbricate, dimidiate. Polyporus Schweinitzii in 

 Europe and United States is normally stipitate from the ground, though usually attached 

 to buried wood. Sometimes it occurs dimidiate on trunks, but I have never before seen 

 a specimen consisting of .numerous pilei imbricate. From the color of the plant one 

 would hardly suspect it of having white spores, as found abundantly in Dr. Peckolt's 

 specimen. 



NOTE 77. Polyporus ilicicola, from Dr. A. Yasuda, Japan, and which was named 

 from Japan. It is quite close to Polyporus gilvus, same setae and spores, but thinner 

 and softer context. When young it has a bright, yellow color, which it loses with age. 

 Hennings evidently made a bad error in describing the spores as I noted in examining 

 the type at Berlin. They are hyaline, globose, 3-3 * mic. 



NOTE 78. Coprinus radians. It develops, in conversation at Kew, that the plant 

 I figured (page 145) as Coprinus radians is. known in England as Coprinus domesticus. 

 I am glad to learn this, for Coprinus domesticus has always been an unplaced species 

 to me. In looking up the figures, while our plant is surely the plant figured by Gillet, 

 and probably by Cooke as domesticus, it is also surely the plant described and figured 

 excellently by Desmazieres as Coprinus radians. Besides Coprinus domesticus does not 

 have a clear title. PersSon named and cited Bolton t. 26, which was probably the sole 

 source of his information. What Fries means by citing "Persoon not Bolton" is there- 

 fore hard to make out. Besides Persoon saw Desmaziere's plant and approved it as 

 unknown to him, which would indicate at least that it was not his idea of Coprinus 

 domesticus. In addition, the plant belongs where Fries placed it next to Coprinus 

 micaeus, and not in the section "veliformes, " where he places domesticus. 



NOTE 79. Eichleriella deglubens, McGinty. A sad case of priority. There is a 

 quite frequent plant in Europe which was named Radulum Kmetii by Bresadola. It is 

 not rare in Sweden and Fries probably had a name for it, but what it was no one knows. 

 I learned it from Mr. Romell, and he learned it from Bresadola, so that the genealogy 

 is pretty straight. Afterwards Bresadola found that it had cruciately divided basidia 

 and removed it to the genus Eichleriella, which he had based on this character, and it 

 was then stated that the section Hirneolinia of Sebacina was the same. Saccardo takes 

 the section Hirneolinia as the valid, generic name, which is directly contrary to the 

 published view of its author, and it is also contrary to general usage to displace a pub- 

 lished, generic name by one used only as a sectional nam'e. 



Eichleriella deglubens is also quite frequent in England, where it usually poses as 

 Stereum rufum (sic) as endorsed by Miss Wakefield on the sheet. Berkeley made 

 abundant collections and always so referred it (excepting once, unfortunately). In fact, 

 the record of Stereum rufum in England appears to be based only on this plant! In 

 going over the Radulum sheets I noticed that the type of Radulum deglubens (a mere 

 frustule) was evidently same as Radulum Kmetii as I learned it in Sweden. A micro- 

 scopic examination made by Miss Wakefield confirms it. Although Berkeley did not 

 know his own species and usually called it Stereum nifum, as he had named at a prior 

 date a little frustule, Radulum deglubens, I suppose he has established his right to the 

 specific name deglubens according to the sacred rights of priority. At least that is 

 Prof. McGinty 's view, to whom I submitted the question, and who proposes the name 

 Eichleriella deglubens, McGinty. . 



As the name Kmetii is quite well established, it seems to me unfortunate to change 

 it, but since it is the "law" now I presume we shall have to bow to the "sacred right 

 of priority." 



NOTE 80 Tremella australiensis, received from G. H. Adcock, Victoria. Australia. 



A very common species in Australia, which has been received many times in Europe and 

 generally referred to Tremella mesenterica. While it is gelatinous, Tremella australiensis 

 is not as gelatinous as the European species, and in its flesh and consistency, is more 

 like a Peziza. It belongs to the foliaceous section of the genera, rather than the cerebnni 

 section to which the European plant is referred. 



Pileus fleshv-gelatinous, convolute, foliaceous, deep yellow color. Hymenium am- 

 phigenous. Basidia ovate-globose. 14 x 20, deep yellow when young, when old paler and 

 cruciately divided. Spores globose, pale yellow, 7-8 mic smooth 



The Australian plant impresses me as being somewhat different from Tremella mesen- 



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