309.) Mycobonia flava. Polystictus flabelliformis. (See Note 310.) 

 Fomes (Ganodermus) leucophaeus. Pilocratera tricholoma. Polystictus 

 membranaceous ? Ganodermus Oerstedii. Xylaria axifera. (See Note 

 311.) Polyporus sterinus. Polyporus (Ganodermus) polychromus. Hypo- 

 lyssus Montagnei. Exidiopsis alba. Hymenochaete tenuissimum ? Poly- 

 porus subfulvus. Polyporus crispus. Polyporus conchoides. Favolus flac- 

 cidus. Lenzites deplanata. (See Note 312.) Poronia fornicata. Lachno- 

 cladium cervinum. Lachnocladium tubulosum. (See Note 313.) Pterula 

 aurantica. Pterula subsimplex. Tyblidium hysterinum. Hymenochaete 

 Kwangensis? Trametes cubensis. Polyporus altocedronensis. (See Note 

 314.) Polyporus Cayennensis. Hexagona leprosa. Scleroderma tenerum. 

 Phlebia Moelleriana. Trametes pruinata. Polyporus immaculatus. 

 Polyporus supinus? Fomes annosus. Fomes marmoratus. Polyporus 

 fractipes. Polyporus tricholoma. Stereum perlatum. Polystictus byrsi- 

 nus. Stereum Ravenelii. Cordyceps amazonica. Stereum affine. Poly- 

 stictus caperatus. Radulum umbrinum. Trametes malicola. Poly- 

 stictus sterioides. Fomes Caryophylli. Polyporus licnoides. Auricularia 

 mesenterica. Fomes tropicalis. Polyporus modestus. Stereum membra - 

 naceum. Irpex farinaceus. Hexagona tenuis. Hezagona Pobequini. 

 Hexagona Dybowski. Trametes ochroflava. (The last four from Africa.) 



NOTE 295. Thelephora Americana, from W. E. Barker, New Zealand, as I had 

 expected to publish it, should I publish a pamphlet I have now prepared on the genus 

 Thelephora. It is Thelephora intybacea of Prof. Eurt's recent paper, not of Europe, as 

 far as I can learn, and certainly not of Fries. 



NOTE 296. Polystictus fimbriatus, from Dr. R. P. Burke, Alabama. The finest 

 specimens I ever saw and the hymenium well developed and surely a polyporoid. Owing 

 to the varying developments of the hymenium it has been classed in six different genera 

 and discovered eight different times to be a new species. The tropical forms are thinner, 

 more lacerate, and hymenium tends more towards Hydnum. At Berlin the type of "Thele- 

 phora" multifida from Porto Rico has the hymenium but little developed, but there is 

 another specimen from Porto Rico (also at Berlin) which could be classed as a Hydnum. 

 Although it has several times been named as "Hydnum," all the "types" tend more to 

 Polystictus. We would class the various synonyms as follows: 



Polystictus fhnbriatus (type at Upsala), Synonyms, Polyporus Warmingii, Brazil ; 

 Craterellus sparassioides, So. America : Baccariella caespitosa, Brazil. 



The thin, tropical, lacerate form might be called Polystictus multifidus (type at Berlin 

 as Thelephora). Synonyms, Hydnum palmatum, So. America; Boletus pavonius, So. 

 America, (In Saccardo as Polystictus, type preserved at Kew as Hydnum.) Hydnum 

 plumarium, Cuba. 



Of the eight different names under which the plant masquerades in the various 

 museums of Europe, Banker in his recent "exhaustive" investigations found two of them 

 and neither very "prior." 



NOTE 297. Fomes scutellatus, from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. Exactly same 

 macroscopically, but probably not same as to spores, and in that case unnamed. Spores 

 are abundant ; elliptical, 6-7x7-81^ subhyaliue opaque, smooth. The spores of Fomes 

 scutellatus are unknown to me, never being able to find them in dried specimens, which 

 would indicate that it was not same as Australian plant. Fomes scutellatus is not surely 

 known excepting from the United States. 



NOTE 298. Radulum Neilgherrense, from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. I think this 

 is the first record of this species from Australia, although assuming it is the same as 

 Radulum mirabile, which it probably is, it is common in Africa and the East, but absent 

 from American flora. It is no doubt common in Australia. Although there is some 

 difference in the hymen ial configuration, as shown by my photographs of the types, I 

 believe in the end that the following will all be held to be the same species. Radulum 

 mirabile, Ceylon ; R&dulum lirellosuin, Africa ; Radulum Emerici and Radulum Neiljrher- 

 rense, India, and Radulum Javanicum, Java. As the plant has abundant cystidia it 

 was discovered to ba a "new genus" and called Lopharia, also Thwaitesiella. (Cfr. 

 Note 163. Letter 53). 



NOTE 299. Sterenm obscurum, from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. This can be held 

 as a variety of Stereum spadiceum with which it agrees in bleeding hymenium, colored 

 ducts, and all features excepting the surface hairs. They are dark (Mummy) brown, 

 almost black instead of the light brown of the European form. This contrast of color 

 makes the plant appear quite different, but in the essentials they are practically the same. 



