WILDER, MRS. H. E., California: 



Polyporus Schweinitzii, dimidiate, imbricate. Lycoperdon gemmatum. 

 Lycoperdon fuscum. 



YASUDA, PROF. A., Japan: 



Polystictus iodinus. Rhizopogon rubescens. Fomes connatus, young. 

 Thelephora spiculosa. Rhizina undulata. Cantharellus floccosus. An Amer- 

 ican species. Lenzites striata. Lenzites subferruginea. Irpex. Unnamed 

 I believe. Stereum Burtianium. (See Note 91.) 



Trametes comfragosa, unnamed form. Compare Note 55 in Letter No. 

 44. We do not have this form in America. Daldinia concentrica, form 

 tending towards vernicosa. Trogia crispa. 



ZENKER, DR. G., Africa: 



Polystictus incomptus. Quite frequent in Africa. 

 Stereum affinis. (See Note 92.) 



THE LENTINI OF OUR MUSEUM. 



(By C. G. Lloyd, written at Kew, April, 1913.) 



Recently, while at Kew we studied the species of Lentinus which we 

 have received from foreign collectors in comparison with -the abundant 

 collections and historical material preserved at Kew. We have since worked 

 over the specimens, at Leiden, Berlin, and Paris, which include about all 

 the historical specimens except a few in Fries' herbarium at Upsala. 



We shall not trouble to define what distinction should be made between 

 Lentinus and Panus, for we do not know. The original definition of Lentinus 

 included the dry, persistent Agarics with equal gills, or if unequal, serrate. 

 In Fries' Epicrisis, he restricted this definition to species with "dentate or 

 lacerate" gills, but this definition only applies to a few of the species that he 

 lists in the genus. We accept Lentinus in the meaning that it has acquired 

 by use, viz., Agarics of a dry, persistent nature, reviving when moist, and 

 having the gills mostly subequal, or if unequal, serrate. The line is not 

 sharply drawn between Lentinus and Panus, though in theory Panus should 

 have unequal gills with entire edges. We find we have received the follow- 

 ing species of Lentinus from correspondents. 



LENTINUS VILLOSUS (Type at Kew). This species, originally from 

 Mauritius, is widespread in the tropics and very common in American 

 tropics. When young it has long, cirrose hairs on the margin, but when 

 old these hairs are to an extent detersive, and rarely specimens become 

 bald with age. Usually, however, these long hairs are a marked feature 

 of the plant. The stem is scaly when young with a tendency to become 

 smooth and dark. (For Fries it is then Lentinus nigripes.) The color is 

 brown. The plant reached Berkeley abundantly from the American tropics 

 and he referred it usually to villosus. He named it also Swartzii, crassipes, 

 siparius, Wrightii, subcervinus, rigidulus, and Schomburgkii, and also de- 

 termined it as being crinitus and tener. Leveille named it fumigatus 

 according to his type at Paris. There are at Kew a few specimens from 

 India and a few from Africa. 



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