Dacryomyces aurantia. Crucibulum vulgare. Xylaria Hypoxylon, (cfr. 

 Letter 45, Note 66). Corticum, (cfr. amorphum). 



Also a number of specimens of Poria, Hypoxylon, Corticum, etc., genera 

 of which I do not know the species. 



MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDENS, Australia: 



Polystictus sanguineus. 



Polyporus (Amaurodermus) rudis. (Compare Stipitate Polyporoids, page 

 111, fig. 403.) A rather frequent species in Australia and too close to 

 Polyporus rugosus of the East. Geaster saccatus. This is the form with a 

 firmer exoperidium, named Geaster coriaceus by Colenso, from New Zealand. 



MEMMINGER, ED. R., North Carolina: 



Myriostoma coliforme. Geaster pectinatus. Irpex pachydon. Poly- 

 porus arcularius. 



Cordyceps capitata. These specimens are not "capitate" as are all 

 specimens I have seen in Europe of this species. They are same form as 

 Cordyceps ophioglossoides of Europe. The distinction between these two 

 species is a marked spore difference as shown by Tulasne. There is also 

 a difference in the method by which they are attached to the host. Geaster 

 floriformis. 



MERRILL, E. D., Philippines: 



I have been favored with an ample collection of Philippine specimens 

 through the courtesy of Mr. E. D. Men-ill, Botanist of the Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, Philippines. These specimens were mostly named by Rev. Bresa- 

 dola, and as I consider Rev. Bresadola the only rnycologist in Europe who 

 has made a critical and historical study of foreign fungi, the specimens 

 are mostly labeled in my museum under the names as received. In some 

 instances I do not adopt the names, but these are mostly cases of difference 

 of opinion due to variation. In some cases the difference comes from ques- 

 tions of "priority," for the haphazard way in which the same species have 

 been given names by the old botanists leads to much doubt about "who saw 

 it first?" and in some instances the man "who saw it first" did not know 

 enough about it to name it decently. This is particularly true in the line 

 of the bungling work of Leveille. A few cases of discrepancy rest on the 

 "authenticity" of "types." Thus there is doubt about most of Leveille's 

 types at Leiden for they were not labeled, and at Paris, where he did label 

 the specimens, the "cotypes" are not always the same species as- the "types" 

 at Leiden. I list the plants as I have labeled them in my museum, and have 

 indicated in parenthesis the names under which they were received. The 

 numbers indicate the number of collections. In addition there are about 

 twenty collections (not listed) which I have not yet found time to work with. 



Phlebia strigoso-zonata, (2), (reflexa). Calvatia lilacina, (1). Dal- 

 dinia concentrica, (1). Polystictus flavus, (1) (Irpex). Auricularia mesen- 

 terica, (2). Hirneola auricula-Judae. (1). Hirneola polytricha, (2), 

 (ampla). Polystictus affinis var. melanopilus, (2), (for me a pale form.) 

 Polystictus flabelliformis, (2), (flabelliformis, luteus). Polystictus affinis, 

 (9), (luteus, pterygodes, nepholocles). Polystictus xanthopus, (4). Poly- 



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