New Caledonia Museum at Paris. 



Samoa C. G. Lloyd. 



Southern United States Several. 



SECTION APUS. 



STEREUM LOBATUM. The most common Stereum in the tropics 

 with brown pubescence and frequently zoned with smoother, deeper, brown 

 zones. Stereum fasciatum, essentially the same plant in temperate regions, 

 has gray pubescence, but the color is due I believe to climatic conditions. 



Tropical America A. Hempel, Brazil. 



New Zealand S. Duncan (also form with appressed pubescence). 



Australia J. T. Paul (also form with yellowish hymenium), James 

 Wilson, Donor unknown. 



Africa W. T. Saxton, Ed. Luja, Miss A. V. Duthie, I. B. Pole 

 Evans, Dr. H. Becker. 



Madagascar Henri Perrier de la Bathie. 



Mauritius P. Koenig. 



Ceylon Prof. T. Fetch (sent as S. ostrea). 



Java J. P. Mousset. 



Mexico Dr. Sylvias J. Bonansea. 



India H. Val. Ryan. 



STEREUM LOBATUM, lobed form. Notwithstanding its name, 

 Stereum lobatum is usually entire. I have a strongly lobed form from 

 Henri Perrier de la Bathie, Madagascar. On scraping it this does turn 

 a little red (a tendency towards S. spadiceum) but I find no "lactiferous 

 ducts" in a section, and feel it is at best a form of S. lobatum. 



STEREUM LOBATUM with cinereous hymenium. From Africa (only) 

 I. received a plant which appears in all respects to be same as lobatum 

 (or color closer' to fasciatum) but it has decidedly cinereous hymenium. 

 I have not found it in any museum named as a "species," which is rather 

 strange. 



South Africa I. B. Pole Evans, W. J. Newberry. 



Congo Dr. G. Zenker. 



Mauritius C. A. O'Connor. 



STEREUM FASCIATUM. As previously stated, I can only make it 

 the temperate region form of Stereum lobatum with no real difference. 

 I have been puzzled for years whether it should be called Stereum fas- 

 ciatum as Schweinitz unquestionably named it, or Stereum versicolor as 

 Ellis always determined it, attributed to Swartz. I have looked up the 

 types of the latter in the British Museum in previous years but was not 

 able to convince myself. After working two months at Kew on Stereums, 

 I feel better able to pass on species, and on revisiting the British Museum 

 I find the type of Stereum versicolor to be the same as Stereum radians, 

 (which is authentic at Kew), a species of the tropics quite close, but 

 smoother than Stereum fasciatum. The name Stereum versicolor, so fre- 

 quently misapplied to this common plant in the United States, is due to 

 Ellis, not Berkeley, to whom I formerly attributed it. Berkeley's speci- 

 mens are mostly correctly referred to as Stereum fasciatum. We have 



