WILDER, MRS. CHARLOTTE, California: 



Fomes pinicola. 



Polystictus zonatus. This agrees exactly with the Swedish plant, and 

 in its type color is a rare plant in the United States. 



Fomes applanatus. Boletus. Hydnum auriscalpium. Xylaria hypoxy- 

 lon. Peziza. Tylostoma campestris. Lycoperdon pratense. 



YASUDA, PROF. A., Japan: 



Cudonia circinans. 



Irpex Tanakai. For me only a form of Irpex lacteus, with spines ar- 

 ranged lamelliform. 



Polyporus sulphureus. Mitremyces Ravenelii. Fomes annosus? 

 Aleurodiscus amorphus. Corticium evoivens. 



Stereum Harmandi. These specimens are cut into narrow segments, not 

 entire as the type collection. It is surely a form, however. It was recently 

 described from Japan (cfr. Stipitate Stereums, p. 22). 



Lycoperdon. Polystictus. : Lenzites Earlei. Hydnum aurantiacum. 

 Thelephora palmata. Polyporus lacteus. Aleurina (sp.). Hypoxylon coc- 

 cineum (form). Hydnum zonatum? Hydnum scabrosum? 



NOTE 153. Erik Haglund sends a Hydnum which he has labeled "Hydnum fragrans 

 ad. int." It is new to me and, I think, unpublished. 



NOTE 154. Hydnum mirabile. I am most pleased to get this ir.ost rare species from 

 Erik Haglund, and I believe it is the only Swedish specimen known. Van Post collected 

 it fifty years ago, and Fries named and illustrated it, but did not preserve any specimen 

 in his collection. Mr. Haglund is the first mycologist to find it in recent years. 



We have in the United States (not rare) a curious species that Peck referred to 

 Hydnum mirabile on Fries' figure, and 1 have always had a suspicion that Peck was 

 right. It has since been supposed that it is the same as Quelet called Hydnum acre, and 

 that Atkinson very recently called Hydnum cristatum. My imprest-ion now, after seeing 

 Mr. Haglund's specimen, is that it is not the same, but I shall want to compare them with 

 our American specimens. 



NOTE 155. Stereum spiniferum. Pileus thin, conchoid, with brown, scabrous pu- 

 bescence, often resupinate, with a reflexed margin. Context thin, with colored hyphae. 

 Hymenium purplish brown, glaucous to the eye. Spores not found. Cystidia (Fig. 565) 

 hyaline, with spiny processes, numerous, densely 

 covering the hymenium. 



This is a frequent species- in Australia which 

 I have not found named in the museums. The 

 cystidia are of the type called Dendrophysen by the 

 Germans, hence I suppose it will become a "new 

 genus" in time. It seems to be common in Aus- 

 tralia. It is quite similar to Stereum albobadium 

 of the United States, and Australian collections at 

 Kew were so referred. I have received specimens 

 from Miso E. J. Turner, Re>r. James Wilson, Edmund 

 Jarvis, Albert Green, and J. T. Paul, all from Aus- 

 tralia. 

 Fig 565. 



NOTE 156. Polyporus virgatus, received from 



Rev. J. Rick, Brazil. Compared with the type at Kew. These specimens have an indica- 

 tion of a black stem, and the plant is close to Polyporus varius. It should go in the 

 section Melanoporus instead of Lentus, where it was placed in my Sytopsis. 



NOTE 157. Pseudocolus Archeri. We have from'chas. C. Brittlebank a characteristic 

 figure of this Australian species, that was imperfectly known at the time we wrote our 

 Phalloid pamphlet. We shall reproduce the figure the next time we are publishing Phalloid 

 figures. Mr. Brittlebank's drawing fully carries out our remarks in Note 86. It is evident 

 Berkeley had a misconception of the plant, and that his figure, which we reproduced in our 

 pamphlet (Fig. 48), is inaccurate in its essential features. The arm.s are united at the top, 

 and the plant is a typical Pseudocolus. 



NOTE 158. Cordyceps entomorrhiza. In reference to Note 94, Mr. Ramsbottom has 

 kindly called my attention to my statement that "Tulasne was too keen to confuse 

 Cordyceps entomorrhiza and Cordyceps gracilis," for it seems from his Icones that he 

 did confuse them. His figure 12, which he refers to Cordyceps entomorrhiza (in his 

 sense, which is gracilis for me), is a better figure of Cordyceps entomorrhiza than his 

 figure 11, which is his type figure of Cordyceps cinerea (viz., entomorrhiza true). I am 

 sure Tulasne has the two species well distinguished in his herbarium, but I think he has 

 his figure 12 confused. 



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