mutabilis ? Polyporus dictyopus. Thelephora radicans. Polyporus 

 licnoides. Polyporus valenzuelianus. Polyporus scruposus. Grammothele 

 lineata? Stereum Beyrichii. Polyporus (Amaurodermus) rudis. (See Note 

 286.) Lycoperdon fuligineum. Fomes Ohiensis. (See Note 287.) Poly- 

 stictus rigens. Polystictus elongatus. Lentinus villosus. Solenia Candida. 

 Lentinus strigosus. Stereum (Lloydiella) percome. Polyporus Guyan- 

 ensis ? Hirneola aurif ormis. 



(From various countries.) From South Africa. Polyporus sulphureus. 

 Polyporus vallatus. From Australia. Lycoperdon cepaeforme. From 

 Island Timor. Polyporus rubidus. From India (Madure). Matula poroniae- 

 f ormis. (See Note 288.) 



WEIR, JAMES R., Montana: 



Tremella frondosa? Hydnum zonatum (very ?) Merulius Corium. 

 resupinate. Trametes hispida. Exidia recisa. Panus salicinus. Poly- 

 porus fumosus. Tremella indecorata. Scleroderma Cepa. Polyporus 

 leporinus. Fomes annosus. Polyporus dichrous. Trametes variiformis. 

 Polyporus semisupinus. Fomes Everhartii. Polyporus cuticularis. Poly- 

 porus Sartwelii. (See Note 289.) Polyporus stipticus. (See Note 290.) 

 Irpex farinaceus. From Indiana. Trametes sepium. From District of 

 Columbia. Trametes cervinus. Exidia recisa. Fomes (unnamed.) From 

 British Columbia. Scleroderma Cepa. 



WESTGATE, J. M., Hawaii: 



Fomes (Ganodermus) fascia tus. Trametes Persoonii. Hirneola 

 polytricha. 



NOTE 261. Chlamydopus Meyerianus from W. A. Archer, New Mexico. A fine speci- 

 men and a particularly rare species. This is the third collection known from the United 

 States. Many years ago a specimen from New Mexico reached Berkeley, and Prof. C. V. 

 Piper in 1902 sent me a fine collection from Pasco, Washington and an interesting 

 account of its habits. (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 134). The species came originally from Peru 

 and a single collection now at Kew is known from Australia and one from North Africa. 

 Spegazzini records it from South America, and these are all the records or specimens 

 known. 



NOTE 262. Gyrophragmium Texense, from W. A. Archer, New Mexico. Same as 

 Gyrophragmium decipiens from California and both are too close to Gyrophragmium Delilei 

 of Mediterranean regions. (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 196). 



NOTE 263. Platygloea Miedzyrzecensis (with apologies for the name), from Rev. H. 

 Bourdot, Allier, France. The genus Platygloea was proposed by Schroeter (Pilz. Schles. p. 

 384) and defined as having basidia divided by partitions into four compartments. He lists 

 three species, nigricans on Tilia, cushion shape, white ; fimicola on manure, disciform 

 flesh colored ; and effusa on a stump, resupinate bluish or yellowish white. All were soft, 

 waxy-gelatinous texture. He did not give any figure of the basidia. 



This work came out in parts. I think this part was issued August, 1887. The next 

 year Brefeld brought out his Part 7 and what was evidently the first species of Schroeter 

 was characterized, figured and called Tachaphantium Tiliae and the basidia here first 

 shown. Saccardo in compiling it evidently thought it the same as Schroeter's species (as 

 it evidently is) for he cross referenced them but did not consolidate them. 



I was glad to get this material from Rev. H. Bourdot as it is the first time I have 

 been able to make out basidia of this type. In these specimens they are easily seen. They 

 are simply the swollen ends of the hyphae, which are curved, first filled with granular 

 matter, then divided by septa (3 to 5) and send out just below each septum a sterigma 

 bearing the spore. The various figures given of these basidia all impress me as more 

 diagrammatic than natural. The septa so strongly shown are usually indistinct. The 

 basidia are curved, not straight as usually shown. The figure in Patouillard's Essai page 13 

 (of Helicogloea which is the "new genus" that Patouillard discovered it to be) is the 

 most natural but in this the septations are inaccurate in relation to the sterigmata. Every 

 time they find a little, gelatinous plant with these basidia, it is a new species and ten 

 have accumulated in Europe. We do not seem to have them in the United States, at least 

 we have no one who has hunted for them, or observed them, or who would have known them 

 had he found them. 



