a synonym for this species. Recently Bresadola, in working over 

 the Java fungi at Leiden, referred to Ganodermus Cochlear, a plant 

 that seems to be common in Java and which we have received from 

 Dr. Konigsberger (cfr. Stip. Polyporoids, page 103). We accepted the 

 name Cochlear for this species, although we do not believe it is the 

 same as Nees illustrated particularly as to the stipe. 



The other species that Nees named Polyporus gibbosus, Fries 

 (from the picture) considered a valid species, and it therefore passed 

 into our literature and is compiled in Saccardo (Vol. 6, p. 156). I can 

 not see any marked difference between Nees' figure of Cochlear and 

 gibbosus, and I believe it will develop that both are the same plant. 

 I have received a plant from C. B. Ussher, Java (Fig. 627) that appears 

 to me to be exactly the same as Nees illustrated under these names, 

 and I have also young specimens from Dr. Konigsberger. I shall 

 use the name Ganodermus gibbosus for this plant and in this sense 

 quite different from the plant Ganodermus Cochlear in the sense of 

 Bresadola. 



Ganodermus gibbosus in this sense has a very peculiar lateral, 

 gibbose stipe (see Fig. 627) as characteristically shown in Nees' 

 figure. With the exception of the stipe, however, and the fact that 

 the pores, are not stratose, in all its "structural" characters, viz., 

 surface, color, crust, context color, pores and pore mouths, it cor- 

 responds to Fomes leucophaeus. The spores (in this specimen) are 

 smaller (not over 8 mic. long) than those of the American Fomes 

 leucophaeus, but I do not attach much importance to the exact 

 size of spores. It could be considered, of course, an annual, stipitate 

 form of Fomes leucophaeus, but in the United States, where Fomes 

 leucophaeus is the most common species we have, it never takes a 

 normal stipitate form. Sometimes Fomes leucophaeus takes a false 

 stipe when growing under abnormal conditions, but I believe that 

 the stipe of Polyporus gibbosus is a normal feature of the plant. 

 The specimens I have are Polyporus, but it may be a Fomes when 

 it gets older. It is quite close to Fomes testaceus of the Synopsis 

 Fomes which, however, has always a peculiar brown surface color, 

 and a regular stipe. 



