can be divided into two forms. Hydnum suaveolens, a very fragrant plant with a hard 

 stem not spongy tomentose, and no shade of orange. This can be subdivided into Hydnum 

 suaveolens, the type lorm common in Europe with a colhculose pileus, and Hydnum caeru- 

 leum practically the same thing, but with an even pileus. My specimens of the latter are 

 all from Canada. 



Hydnum compactum, with the flesh turning blue when cut, but with a spongy tomentose 

 pad at the base of the stem, which retains an orange shade in the dried specimens. The 

 European form is compact, as shown in Schaeffer's Icones t. 146, the top even and the odor 

 not so fragrant in fresh specimens. We have collected the type form in Sweden, and also 

 have an American specimen from Miss Lizzie C. Allen, Massachusetts. The usual American 

 collection, however, differs in having a thinner pileus, not "compact," and the tomentose 

 pad at base of stem more pronounced. This American form was called Hydnum cyaneo- 

 tinctum by Peck, and has been, by me and others, confused with Hydnum cearuleum (cfr. 

 Note 69 and Note 84). 



Specimens In My Collection. 



Hydnum suaveolens. Type form Sweden and France, C. G. L. ; North Carolina, H. C. 

 Beardslee ; Massachusetts, Geo. E. Morris. 



Form Hydnum caeruleum. Canada, J. Vroom, Thos. Langton, John Dearness ; France, 

 M. Barbier ; Sweden, Erik Haglund. 



Hydnum compactum. Type torm from Sweden, C. G. L. ; Massachusetts, L. C. Allen ; 

 North Carolina (?), H. C. Beardslee. 



Form cyaneotinctum. Massachusetts, T. L. Smith (3 collections), Mrs. E. B. Black- 

 ford (2 collections), Geo. E. Morris. I have it from no other State. 



NOTE 190. Femes fraxinophilus, from Dr. J. F. Brenckle, Kulm, N. D. On Quercus 

 macrocarpa. I am confident that this is the first collection on Quercus species. It usually 

 occurs on Fraxinus in the East or Shepherdia in the West. 



NOTE 191. Arachnion album, sent by Miss A. V. Duthie, Stellenbosch, S. Africa. 

 Miss Duthie sends an abundant collection and reports them "very common on the Stellen- 

 bosch flats in May and June." A curious case of plant distribution. Here we have a species 

 of rare puff ball in United States, and only known from one collection in Europe, which is 

 found "common" in South Africa. 



NOTE 192. Stereum purpurascens, received from Miss Ann Hibbard, W. Roxbury, 

 Mass. As variety of Stereum cinerescens, Schw. Hymenium dark purplisn. No plant is 

 more common around Cincinnati than Stereum cinerescens, and it always has the hymenium 

 pale with us. When I first looked at Miss Hibbard's specimen I was puzzled. Stereum 

 purpureum is the only species I know with purple hymenium, and this did not appear to 

 me to be this species. A section shows the large metuloids and spores of Stereum cineres- 

 cens, and it is without question a form. Morgan states that Stereum cinerescens "sometimes 

 has a smoky or purplish tinge," but these specimens have a hymenium with more than a 

 "purplish tinge." It is a distinct color, about the dark purple drab of Ridgway. 



NOTE 193. Hydnum graveolens, from Miss Ann Hibbard, W. Roxbury, Mass. The 

 European identity of this plant is not settled to my mind, although undoubted types and 

 cotypes from Delastre are at Upsala, Leiden, and Paris. I thought, when I examined 

 them, that they were possibly Hydnum cyathiforme, an abundant species in Sweden, which 

 develops fragrance in drying, although that fact is not mentioned in Fries' writings. And 

 I have thought that getting the plant from Delastre (under the name fragans) was the 

 reason it was considered by Fries as a species, knowing Hydnum cyathiforme from fresh 

 plants (not fragrant) and graveolens from dried plants (fragrant). But our American 

 plant does not suggest Hydnum cyathiforme to me as much as it does Hydnum amicum. I 

 cannot understand Banker's recent reference of Hydnum graveolens as a synonym for 

 Hydnum pullum, or Hydnum melaleucum as the legal name is now. While there is no doubt 

 about the synonym of Hydnum melaleucum and Hydnum pullum in Europe as given by 

 Fries, it> is close to Hydnum nigrum, and I believe has been given somewhere recently as a- 

 synonym for Hydnum nigrum. Hydnum melaleucum in sense of English mycologists, ac 

 cording to specimens I have, is surely same as our American plant, but Hydnum melaleucum 

 from Swedish collection is an entirely different thing and I think correct, agreeing with 

 Schaeffer's figure, which our plant does not. I doubt also Fries' figure Icon, t. 6, f. 1, be 

 same as Delastre's plant. 



NOTE 194. Phlebia strigoso-zonata, from Miss Ann Hibbard, W. Roxbury, Mass. 

 Working with freshly collected material, I am unable to make out the basidia, but it is 

 certain that they are not of the palisade type like Phlebia radiata. I see no organs that I 

 think are basidia. The section is of fine hyphae and homogeneous, excepting that imbedded 

 in the upper half are "gleocystidia," or probably ducts, that remind me of those one sees 

 in Exidiopsis. They do not reach the surface. These stain dark with iodine. Below the 

 layers, where the tissue is paler, are numerous, small, globose bodies of various sizes, not 

 larger than six mic., which may be the basidia, but appear to me more in the nature 

 conidial spores. They do not stain with iodine. I am sure that the basidia are not as 

 usual, but I think putting it in Auricularia is far fetched. 



NOTE 195. Polystictus Montagnei, from Geo. E. Morris, Waltham, Mass. This is a rare 

 species. I am disposed to think now that the plant Mr. Morris sent me some time ago and 

 which I named Polystictus cuticularis is better referred to this species. 



NOTE 196 Polyporus ovinus, from Geo. E. Morris. Waltham. Mass. Mr. Morris sends 

 also a colored drawing which, together with the specimen, establishes this species in th.s 

 country for the first time. It is quite a freauent species in Sweden, but the American 

 specimens and records that I have noted are doubtful. There are American specimens in the 



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