NOTE 300. Fomes hornodermus, from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. This is a thick, 

 ungulate specimen, but I note an orange stain under the crust which in our Fomes pamphlet 

 we held to be a feature of Fomes martius, as different from Fomes hornodermus. Perhaps 

 Fomes martius is only a thin form of Fomes hornodermus. 



Miss Wakefield, in a letter to me, states that she thinks that the Australian Fomes 

 with the orange tint under the cuticle is Fomes hemitephrus, and not Fomes martius as 

 I have held it in my Fomes Synopsis. 



NOTE 301. Fomes linUtoscaber. from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. To the eye in 

 every feature, surface, color, context color, pores, this is so much like Trametes strigata 

 that I thought it must- be a Fomes form of that species. The pores are stratified and it 

 has setae on the hymenium and belongs to section 70 of the Fomes pamphlet. Trametes 

 strigata has no setae as far as T can find. When I observed the type of Fomes liniato- 

 scaber, which is in the British Museum. I thought it a Fomes form of Trametes strigata, 

 but I find on examination that it agrees with this specimen from Dr. Cleland in having 

 setae on the hymenium. It is a true Fomes with stratified pores, but was omitted from 

 my Fomes Synopsis as I was under the impression then that it was only a Fomes form 

 of Trametes strigata. 



NOTE 302. Trametes rosea, from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. Context punky, dry. 

 pale salmon, (light ochraceous salmon). Pores white, medium, large, ^mm. diameter, 

 indistinctly stratified, forming imperfect layers in the manner of Fomes annosus. Spores 

 3x5 mic. hyaline, smooth. 



The specimen received from Dr. Cleland is imperfectly developed evidently. It is 

 largely resupinate with imperfect pileus. The species belongs in the Trametes section 

 (of 63), considered in our Fomes Synopsis, page 224. It agrees exactly with Trametes 

 roseola as to context color, but differs from all other species in this section in having 

 large pores. Its method of pore development is much like Fomes annosus. 



NOTE 303. Variations of Fomes senex. A fine series of specimens from C. N. 

 Forbes, Hawaii, illustrates variations in form and surface of this common, tropical species. 

 Usually Fomes senex, as described in our Fomes pamphlet, is applanate with long pores 

 almost reaching the crust. We have many collections of this from the East, Africa, Brazil, 

 etc. Most of Mr. Forbes' specimens are ungulate, with several layers of shorter pores. 

 One had uneven surface, due probably to the annual layers overlapping from its position 

 of growth. All have the usual context color, texture, setae, pores, etc., the essentials of a 

 species. The spores of one specimen (1075) were abundant, globose, hyaline, 4-5 mic. 

 guttulate. Rarely we find spores in Fomes senex and sometimes they are deeply colored. 

 We are unable to explain this spore discrepancy and have already commented on it in 

 our Fomes Synopsis, page 259. 



NOTE 304. Arachnion album, from Dr. L. C. C. Krieger, California. A rare puff ball 

 everywhere, and this is the first specimen from the Pacific Coast. I have a few specimens 

 from Ohio, Texas, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Australia, and South Africa. Also one col- 

 lection from Italy, which is the only one known from Europe. 



NOTE 305. Laternea bicolumnata, from Dr. L. C. C. Krieger, California. This is 

 the first Laternea known from the Pacific Coast. It grew in garden soil at Chico, Cal. 

 The species was named from Japan, and this is its first known occurrence in America. 



NOTE 306. Polyporus Berkeley! with sclerotium, from B. Leeper, Ohio. We are very 

 grateful to Mr. Leeper for his aid in solving the problem of the sclerotia of the merismatoid 

 section of Polyporus. Last month he sent us the sclerotiuni of the rare Polyporus umbella- 

 tus. Now we have a sclerotium of the more common Polyporus Berkeleyi, the sclerotium 

 of which was, however, as little known. It is a true sclerotium, about two inches in 

 diameter and five inches long. It resembles a thick rhizome, and is no doubt developed 

 in the same way. The plant apparently develops its fruit each year from the sclerotium, 

 and sends out a new sclerotium from which the fruiting body is developed next year. 

 This is a process similar to the development of rhizomes in flowering plants. In fact the 

 sclerotia of this group of fungi and the rhizomes of flowering plants are analogous bodies. 

 Our best thanks are tendered to Mr. Leeper for the specimens illustrating this feature, 

 and for beautiful photographs. 



NOTE 307. Hexagona aloida, from G. R. Lyman, District of Columbia. Developed 

 on a bamboo flower pot from Manila in a glass house at Washington. This is the only 

 white Hexagona known, and is widely distributed in the tropics. It takes Lenzitoid forms 

 also. (Cfr. my Synopsis of Hexagona, page 29, fig. 314). 



NOTE 308. Polyporus confusus, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. Cfr. Stipitate Poly- 

 poroids, page 177, fig. 476. Heretofore only known from the type specimen at Kew from 

 Louisiana. 



NOTE 309. Kretzschmania clavus, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. I doubt if there 

 is really more than one species of Kretzschmania. Thirty-three (alleged) species have 

 been proposed, but all the specimens I saw and photographed in the various museums of 

 Europe impressed me as being very much the same. They differ some in the size of the 

 heads and prominence of the ostioles, but I think they are all virtually the same. The 

 original species were Kretzschmania caenopus from Cuba and Kretzschmania clavus from 

 Brazil Both were by Fries (as Sphaeria) and the former had smaller heads than the 

 latter.' Both, I think, were the same otherwise. 



NOTE 310. Polystictus flabelliformis, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. From Southern 

 Brazil, legit. Rick. This is the first American specimen that I have seen that agrees 



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