sutus. Stereum bicolor. Polyporus gilvus. Fomes marmoratus. Hirneola 



auricula Judae, "Jew's ear." Daldinia concentrica. Lenzites betulina. 



Pleurotus nidulans. Trametes lactea. Polyporus obtusus. Stereum lo- 

 batum. Stereum bicolor. Polystictus sanguineus. Polystictus Friesii. 

 Fomes leucophaeus Trametes cubensis. Trametes rigida. Stereum 

 ochraceofiavum. Polyporus poculus. 



OVERHOLTS, L. 0., Indiana: 

 Fomes nigricans. 



WOLF, F. A., Alabama: 

 Merulius lacrymans. 



NOTE 224.-Hydnum reticulatum. Sent by Miss A. Hibbard, W. Roxbury, Mass. The 

 first specimen I have received and, according to the records, the second collection known. 

 It is a most peculiar species and entirely reverses the usual ideas of Hydnums and their 

 spores. Many Hydnums have angular, tubercular, colored spores, others even, smooth, or 

 asperate hyaline spores, but this stands alone in having angular, tubercular, hyaline spores. 

 It demonstrates that the old Friesian genus Hydnum, on macroscopic characters, is far less 

 embarrassing and more natural than the new fangled ideas of breaking it up into "genera" 

 on spore characters, to say nothing of the confusion introduced by a jargon of new names. 



Miss Hibbard collected the plant while on a visit to Nova Scotia, and was impressed 

 when she gathered it that it was something unusual in the Hydnum line. The plant now is 

 wood brown, the dried flesh paler isabelline. Miss Hibbard states, "I remember it grew in 

 troops and that there was white on the pileus when fresh, but the pileus was not wholly 

 white." The species is also unusual among Hydnums in having flattened decurrent teeth that 

 in the dried specimens mostly remain pale at the apex. It was named from the teeth being 

 united at the base to form a kind of reticulation, a minor feature, and the author could 

 have given it a much better name had he appreciated its strong peculiarities. 



NOTE 225. Trametes piceina, from H. D. House, State Botanist, Albany, N. Y. Seven 

 collections, including some type material of Peck. This plant has been held by Von Schrenk 

 as same as Trametes Abietis of Europe as a variety of Fomes pini. While very close, our 

 American plant has minute pores and the European plants large, usually daedaloid pores, 

 and this, in my opinion, is a difference sufficient enough to maintain them as distinct. 



NOTE 226. Stereum cuneatum, sent by N. L. T. Nelson, Gainesville, Florida. Pileus 

 cuneate, tapering to the base (2 cm. high), cut into a few fimbriate segments. Surface 

 pale, smooth. Hymenium unilateral, pale yellow (Honey yellow of Ridgway), smooth. 

 Cystidia none. Spores globose, 3 l />-4 mic. hyaline, smooth. The plant grows densely 

 caespitose in the earth, from a common mycelial base. It belongs in Section 7 of my recent 

 pamphlet on Stipitate Stereums, and is the first addition to these plants I have gotten since 

 the pamphlet was written. 



NOTE 227. Poria Weirii. Pores very minute round, perennial, stratified, 5-7 mm. 

 long. Color cinnamon-brown. Subiculum thin, soft, spongy, concolorous, forming a narrow 

 margin. Setae numerous, long, deep colored, imbedded in the tissue of the pore walls, the 

 sharp end.s projecting into the pores 30-40 mic. Spores not found, surely hyaline. 



This is a large brown species, common and forming large patches on Thuja in our 

 Western States. It is loosely adherent to the host. The structure is very peculiar, and the 

 only other native polyporoid with similar structure known is Polyporus glomeratus. The 

 "genus" Oxyuria was based on this structure (cfr. Synopsis Fomes, page 261). This is the 

 only Poria I have ever noted belonging to this section. The original species known belong- 

 ing to this section was Fomes pachyphloeus of the East (cfr. Synopsis Fomes, fig. 600). In 

 that species the large, imbedded setae do not project into the pores as they do in Poria 

 Weirii. 



Naematelia Japonica (Note 220). 



