on polypores, I do not know what it is unless it is Leveille's or Kalchbrenner's. And 

 Cooke is the author of the only text-book published on Australian fungi, a book that has 

 about as much truth in it as is in Gulliver's Travels. 



Mr. Cheel sends some interesting notes on the fresh specimens. "Pores orange red 

 when fresh. Surface of pileus rich cream color tinged with ochre and orange red." 



This specimen is ungulate, 8 x 12 cm. and 9 cm. thick. All of those at Kew are 

 applanate, not over 2-3 cm. thick. The pores are not "concolorous" but much darker in 

 dried specimens than the surface. Spores (not recorded by Miss Wakefield) are abundant 

 in this specimen, globose, (or appearing in certain views as though collapsed) 3 mic. 

 hyaline, smooth. 



The flesh is pale yellow, soft and punky, and the plant is evidently closely related to 

 Polyporus sulphureus. As it is always sessile though, I would place it in a different section, 

 No. 89 of the Polyporus Synopsis. It approaches Polyporus amarus of California in 

 several features. 



NOTE 271. Pomes badius, from D. Griffiths, Texas. The occurrence of this species 

 in the United States has not heretofore been recorded. It is frequent in the tropics. 

 Mr. Griffiths finds it on Acacia Greggii at Walde, Texas, and sends beautiful specimens. 

 It is close, too close, to the common Femes rimosus on locust, and the only point of 

 difference is the larger pores, about 80 mic. in Fomes rimosus and nearly double in 

 Fomes badius. Both plants are confined as far as known to leguminose trees and the 

 pore difference alone hardly makes them different "species." 



NOTE 272. Bptrytis <sp.), from B. T. Harvey, Colorado. A white mold growing on 

 the larva of Colloides nobilis which is a round head borer in dead roots of scrub white 

 oak. The Botrytis forms a white mold with numerous, minute, globose, hyaline 

 spores 1^2-2 mic. in diameter. On cutting the larva I find the inside a complete sclerotium, 

 and I doubt not that this Botrytis is a preliminary stage of some Cordyceps. As we 

 have no species of Cordyceps recorded from this host, I hope Prof. Harvey will keep a 

 close watch for the Cordyceps form. 



NOTE 273. Trametes variiformis, from Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

 The large pores are white, but the pileus surface colored. I made a mistake in Note 201 

 in referring to variiformis the white plant received from Mr. Ames. The original descrip- 

 tion of Peck, as well as my notes on the type in Peck's herbarium, calls for a plant with 

 large, white pores and colored pileus surface. On referring again to my specimens, I 

 find one lot of specimens I received from Mr. Weir and those I collected in Canada are 

 Trametes variiformis with colored, pileus surface and white pores and one lot from Mr. 

 Weir and from Mr. Ames with similar pores but white pileus surface are not. 



NOTE 274. Polyporus alboluteus, from Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

 A little, resupinate piece but surely the same peculiar thing. Very common in Rocky 

 Mountains, but very rare east of the Mississippi, this being the second collection so known, 

 (cfr. Myc. Notes, page 379). 



NOTE 275. Asterodon ferruginosum, from Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

 A specimen over I 1 ,;, cm. thick, and having seven distinct layers of teeth with context 

 layers interposed after the manner of Fomes pore layers. I never saw it before when it 

 had more than a single layer. I judge these are annual layers and that the plant is 

 perennial. Prof. McGinty will certainly find it to be a "new genus" now. 



NOTE 276. Polyporns intybaceus, from Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

 Growing on a Tamarac stump. Polyporus frondosus and Polyporus intybaceus are two 

 species much confused (cfr. Letter 43, note 37) and this is the first time I have gotten the 

 distinction clear. Polyporus frondosus is the common plant growing from a root stalk 

 at the base of trees usually. It is said to have a sclerotium but that is doubtful. In England 

 called intybaceus and so figured in Stevenson. The pileoli are suberect. Spores 3-3 1 o x 4-5 

 ovate, smooth. 



Polyporus intybaceus is very rare and this specimen from Dr. Kauffman is the first of 

 which I am sure. Fries records it as most rare, found in Halland. It occurs on wood ; never 

 can have a sclerotium. The pileus is very similar in color and flesh, but is broader and 

 grows more horizontal. The spores are markedly narrow, viz. 2-2^2 x 5, cylindrical 

 rather than ovate. 



I am glad to get an idea of the distinction between these two species for it is a 

 subject that has bothered me from the start. 



NOTE 277. Sclerotium of Polyporus umbellatus, from Burt Leeper, Ohio. We have 

 known for some time that this rare species is developed from a sclerotium, but have never 

 seen it before. We are therefore very grateful to Mr. Leeper for the trouble in digging 

 it up and sending it to us and for fine photographs of the plant. It is a true sclerotium, 

 formed of irregular rhizome-like lobes, with a black surface and pale colored context. 

 It reminds me much of the rhizome of Cimicifuga racemosa, known in the drug trade 

 as Black Cohosh. Undoubtedly the sclerotia of this rare species produce fruiting bodies 

 each year, and it is possible that Polyporus frondosus and Polyporus Berkeley! are developed 

 in the same way. We should be glad if any of our correspondents, meeting either of the 

 latter species, would dig for the sclerotia and forward to us. 



NOTE 278. Polyporus Rostkovii, from B. Leeper, Ohio. This is one of the rarer 

 polypores, and has been known in Peck's writings as Polyporus pallidus, which is probably 

 same thing (with small scales). It was also called by Sumstein Polyporus Pennsylvanicus. 

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