Specimen from J. Umemura, Japan, (No. 131) on dead tree. I reproduce Mr. Umemura's 

 collection notes as follows : 



NOTE 218. Thelephora papillosa, irom J. Umemura, Japan. This is the second 

 specimen I have received from Japan. It was named in Letter 54, Note 222 Mr. Umemura. 

 sends a perfect specimen and a photograph (fig. 707) showing its manner of growth. 

 It is imbricate, resetted from a short, centra] stem. In its manner of growth it resembles. 

 Thtlephora vialis of this country. This specimen accords with the type in the permanent 

 papillate hymeniimi. 



NOTE 249. Daedalea gibbosa, from J. Umemura, Japan. Called Trametes in Fries' 

 Hym. Europe but always a good Daedalea, never a Trametes for me. It occurs in Europe, 

 Philippines, Japan, but is absent from the United States. This is the second European 

 species that has ;ome to my notice that occurs in Japan but not in the United States. The 

 other species is Trametes odorata. 



NOTE 250. Cordyceps nutans, from J. Umemura, Japan. We are particularly pleased 

 to get this specimen for we have seen none in any museum in Europe. It was originally 

 well described and figured in Bull. Myc. France, 1887, page 127. It came from Japan, 

 an.l we believe is only heretofore known from the original. It is peculiar in several things, 

 It is the only Cordyceps recorded on a Heteroptera or "True Bug" as entomologists designate 

 them. The insect belongs to the Pentatomidae, I am advised by Prof. Osborn, but does 

 not appear in list of Japanese Hemiptera published by Uhler. Mr. Umemura sends a 

 colored figure (fig. 709) which shows the club erect, not "nodding" as its name would 

 indicate. He sends two specimens and two figures and all four show a branching 

 stem as shown in the figure. Whether this represents another club that has been 

 broken off or a sterile branch I cannot say. The stem is black, but the club and 

 upper portion of the stem is orange rather than "violet" as originally described. As the 

 material is scanty I do not wish to cut the specimen. The secondary spores were described 

 as 1-1 1/> x 10-15 mic. which are unusually long. We hope our Japanese friends who find 

 this will send us more ample material, as we should like to examine it under the microscope, 

 and should also like an explanation of that branching stem. 



NOTE 251, Hydnum, sent by Prof. A. Yasuda, Japan. It is quite close in coloration 

 and texture, also spores to Hydnum aurantiacum of Europe. It is the same as Hydnum 

 conigenum as named by Peck, which was based on a single specimen growing (no doubt 

 accidental) on a pine cone and misnamed in consequence. I think these names based 

 on mistakes should have no validity, and were I publishing the Japanese plant I would 

 give it a suitable name. 



NOTE 252.- Polyporus scaurus, from Prof. A. Yasuda, J&pan. A fine specimen from 

 which we are enabled to draw a better description than from previous sendings. (Cfr. 

 Note 68, Letter 44). Stipe thick, irregular, S-4 cm. thick, with hard, woody., brown context 

 and minutely velutinate surface. Usually pleuropodial, often deformed. Pileus 10-12 cm. 

 with rugolose, zonate, minutely pubescent, brown surface. Context thin, 3-8 mm. dark 

 brown, hard, zonate, Hyphae deep colored. Pores minute, brown, with concolorous mouths. 

 Setae none. Spores elliptical, 3-4 x 5-8 hyaline, smooth. This is the fourth collection 

 we have received from Prof. A. Yasuda. It is close to Polyporus Cummingii and should 

 be entered in Section 36 (Pelloporus). 



NOTE 253. Polyporus Patouillardii in the East. This species came from Brazil and 

 wns only recently named by Rev. Rick. It is beginning to show up in the East. I have 

 specimens from E. Yamada, Japan, and have just gotten it from Philippines under the 

 mss. name Trametes fusco-badius. (Why Trametes, I cannot say.) On comparison I 

 am quitp sure now that the Japanese plant, the Philippine plant and the Brazilian plant 

 are all the same thing. 



NOTE 54. Polyporus Henningsii in Brazil. We received some time ago from Rev. 

 Rick, a One specimen that to the eye looks like Poiyporus lucidus, but growing in the 

 earth, apparently from a rhizome which lucidus does not. It was labeled "formissimus = 

 renidens." I considered it Note 90, Letter 47, as being renidens which I included in 

 section 66 of Amaurodwmus in my Stipitate Polyporoids and suggested that the species should 

 be moved to the section Ganodermus. On my last trip to Berlin I brought home a type frag- 

 ment of Poiyporus renidens, and on examining the spores I find them as described in the 

 pamphlet "globose, 7-3 mic. rough," and I believe now the plant is correctly classed in 

 our Stipitate Polyporoids. The spores of Rev. Rick's plant were essentially different, 

 piriform, with distinct, hyaline apicuff (typical Ganodermus) 10-12 mic. large, and distinctly 

 rough. In looking over the description in Section 3 (Ganodermus) where Rev. Rick's 

 plant belongs, I find it exactly same in all characters as Polyporus Henningsii except that 

 it is pleuropodial and Polyporus Henningsii is mesopodial. On this difference I would not 



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