which Tulasne described on haw berries from England, and probably is the same species. 

 Processor Beardslee thinks the fruit on which he finds it is that of the dogwood (Cornus 



norida), 



NOTE 122. Thelephora cuticularis, fvcm H. C. Beardslee, Asheville, N. C We 

 take this m the sense of Morgan, for we know no other name for it, though it is not 

 the same as type of Berkeley at Kew, which is Thelephora albido-brunnea. We think 

 they are difterent species, though we are not sure. 



NOTE 123. Hydnum fuligineo-violaceum, sent by H. C. Beardslee, Asheville, N C 

 Judging from the figures (Kalchbrenner 32, 2, Bresadola Ib9 and Karsten 11, 59) and 

 from the description, Hyndum fuligineo-violaceum and Hydnum fennicum are very much 

 the same species. It is characterized by the bluish tinge at base of stipe. The surface 

 of Kalchbrenner's figure is smooth, of the other two with small scales, but the descrip- 

 tions ail indicate that the surface is sometimes smooth, somatimes broken into scales. 

 Tr.e spores are not like Karsten shows, but for that matter I do not believe there are 

 any species with colored, spinulose spores. They all have (in this section) irregular, tu- 

 bercular spores. 



NOTE 124. Hydnum putidum, from H. C. Beardslee, Asheville, N. C. This is the 

 first specimen I have received. It is a good species as far as America goes, and occurs 

 in the South, not in the East. It has been referred to violascens in Europe, but I can not 

 reconcile it to the illustration of Europe. It does seem to me to be same as violaceum, 

 as illustrated and described by Quclet, which, he claims, is different from violascens. In 

 the recent "critical" account of this "genus" in America and Europe the silence on the 

 subject is quite profound. 



NOTE 125. Polystictns elongatus, sent by Mr. G. H. Cave, Darjeeling, British India. 

 This, which is merely the tropical form of the common Polystictus pergamenus of tem- 

 perate America, takes in the East two forms, one with the pileus more silky than the 

 other. The plants that Mr. Cave sends are the silky form. 



NOTE 126. Stereum princeps, from Mr. G. H. Cave, Darjeeling, British India. 

 This is the largest Stereum that grows, and is common in the East. At Leiden I saw 

 thick specimens a foot in diameter. It is thick, hard, rigid, and perennial, with stratose 

 hymenium. The emergencies are pale-colored, and with short spines. They would prob- 

 ably be called dendrophytes. 



Stereum princeps is the analogue of Stereum subpileatuin of the Southern United 

 States, and practically a large edition of same plant. Both have same "structure," and 

 both redden when the hymenium is bruised. 



Berkeley re-named Stereum princeps Stereum scytale, and usually so determined it. 

 He also called it Stereum contrarium. 



NOTE 127. Trametes Carter!, from Mr. G. H. Cave, Darjeeling, British India. The 

 first collection I have received, and named from my photographs of the type, which was 

 from India. Except as to pores, Trametes Carteri reminds me of -rigid Daedalea unicolor, 

 and might be characterized, in short, as rigid, trametoid Daedalea unicolor. 



NOTE 128. Polyporus abruptus, sent by Mr. Walter W. Frogatt, Sydney, Australia. 

 I collected this plant in Samoa, and my Samoan collection has been compared with 

 the type at Kew. Mr. Frcgatt is the first of my correspondents who has sent it in. 

 We have a very similar but slightly different species in the American tropics Polyporus 

 submurinus (named by Murrill as Trametes). The pileus of Polyporus abruptus when 

 fresh has a delicate, rosy, smoky color. The color of our American plant is "mouse" 

 gray, and it has slightly larger pores. In other features the plants are the same. 



NOTE 129. "Xylaria" cinnabarina, received from Mr. Frogatt. This was so named 

 by Cooke. When the genera of these large Pyrenomycetes are worked out, I doubt if it 

 will be included in the genus "Xylaria." On its perithecia character alone it belongs to 

 Physacria, as Patouillard calls it; but when the large Pyrenomycetes are finally referred 

 to genera, I doubt if the perithecia character alone will characterize a genus. 



NOTE 130. Femes martius, also from Mr. Frogatt, Australia. This is a thin, ap- 

 planate specimen and very close to Fomes hornodermus. The context is somewhat "punky" 

 in this specimen, very hard and compact in hornodermus. It is also a thinner species than 

 hornodermus. When received in America, I referred the specimen to Fomes ligneus, but 

 on comparing at Kew I find it the same as Fomes martius from Brazil. 



NOTE 131. Fomes marmoratus. In our Note 33, Letter 43, my apologies are tendered 

 to Mr. Swartz. I thought I had located all of Swartz' types at the British Museum, 

 and never questioned the plant from Jamaica, which passed as the type of Fomes fasciatus. 

 That it is the same as Fomes marmoratus there is no question ; but since Mr. Romell has 

 raised it, there is a question as to it being Swartz' type. I carefully noted the label on my 

 last visit to the museum, and there is nothing to connect it with Swartz. It is a very 

 old specimen from Jamaica, collected by a Mr. Poore. 



We have heretofore called the plant Fomes fasciatus on the strength of this specimen, 

 but since a type in Thunberg's herbarium is not the same (cfr. Note 33), we must abandon 

 the name for this species and take Berkeley's more recent, but more certain name, Fomes 

 marmoratus. 



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