NOTE 326. Hydnum fragile, from Miss Lizzie C. Allen, Massachusetts. This we have pre- 

 viously determined as Hydnum reticulatum, an American and inappropriate name. It was 

 referred to the European species by Cooke and on looking up the figures and description we 

 think coirectiy. It is well named, for the dry flesh is very fragile. It is a pine woods species, 

 and departs irom all other known fleshy species in having tubercular, hyaline spores. (Cfr. 

 Letter 54, Note 234.) I have it from' several Eastern correspondents. 



NOTE 327. Polyporus Amesii, from F. H. Ames, New York. Additional specimens con- 

 firm to our mind the validity of the species (cfr. Apus Polyporus, page 309). We think it a 

 marked deviation of Polyporus fumosus. To the eye from the dark adustus pores, it appears 

 a color form of Polyporus adustus, but the spores indicate its relationship to Polyporus fumo- 

 sus, as we classified it. It was collected on oak, at Jamaica, Long Island, November 2, 1909. 



NOTE 328. Polystictus perennis, from Prof. T. de Aranzadi, Spain. The surface of these 

 specimens has a thin, wnite "whitewashed" effect not usuai to the species, but I am satisfied 

 it is not of specific importance. It is what Quelet calls P. fimbriatus, but not what Fries call* 

 P. pictus, which has a very slender stipe. 



NOTE 329. Polyporus intybaceus, from W. H. Ballou, New York. Growing on top of a 

 stump. Whether there is really any difference (excepting habitat) between Polyporus inty- 

 baceus growing on wood and Polyporus frondosus growing in ground attached to buried wood, - 

 is not sure, notwithstanding the conclusions I reached in Note 276, Letter 58. The spore dif- 

 ference there indicated does not hold good as to this specimen. 



Note 330. Bovistella? cuprica, from W. E. Barker, New Zealand. Perrdium globose, 

 1-1% cm. in diameter, glabrous, bright copper color. Sterile base distinct, but scanty. Capil- 

 litium long, intertwined, rigid threads which run out into pointed branches. Spores globose, 

 4 mic., without pedicel, smooth. 



This is characterized by its bright copper color and smooth peridium. If it had an exo- 

 peridium when young, all traces have disappeared, from these specimens. It is an ambiguous 

 Bovistella, strongly tending towards Lycoperdon. The capillitium, I am satisfied, is of '^sep- 

 arate" threads, viz., the Bovista type, but so long and intertwined that the "separate" threads 

 are difficult to make out. The spores are of the Lycoperdon type. 



NOTE 331. Polyporus amygdalinus, from Dr. R. P. Burke, Alabama. This is the first 

 freshly collected specimen that exists now, I believe. The old type at Kew is so poor, little can 

 be told about it. Surface soft, dull, pale yellowish, or brownish now, with darker, innate 

 fibrils. Context soft, spongy, punky, light, pale yellow (salmon buff). Pores and pore tissue 

 white. Mouths small, round or irregular, white. Spores not found, except small, globose, 

 conidial spores. 



This species was not included in our Polyporus Synopsis, as little could be told from the 

 old, effete type at Kew. I would enter it in Section 87. The contrast of the white pore tissue 

 and yellow flesh is a feature unknown to me in other species. Ravenel states it has an odor 

 of bitter almonds when fresh, hence the name. 



NOTE 332. Irpex concrescens, from Dr. R. P. Burke, Alabama. I have received this from 

 several correspondents and it has not been published as far as I know. Resupinate. Subicu- 

 lum thick, white, closely adnate. Teeth white, flattened, 8-12 mic. long, growing together and 

 often forming nodules. Cystidia, none. Spores 3x5, opaque, hyaline. The entire plant re- 

 mains white in drying. This appears not to be rare and, I think, has been generally referred 

 to Irpex obliquus. I have also specimens from ft. Bartholomew, La. (5471), on Cottonwood, 

 J. Dearness from Prof. Macoun (320), on fir stump. 



NOTE 333. Pomes Meliae, from Dr. R. P. Burke, Alabama. This is the first specimen 

 I have received. The types at New York are old and unsatisfactory (cfr. Syn. Fomes, page 

 283), and recent determinations at New York are Fomes connatus. 



Fomes Meliae and Fomes connatus are quite close in general appearance and both have 

 pale context, and pore layers separated by layers of context, a character not known in any 

 other species with pale context. In connatus the pores are ochraceous, darker than the con- 

 text, spores globose, and hymenium with capitate cystidia. In Meliae the pores are grayish, 

 same color as context, spores elliptical, 3x6, and no cystidia. I am glad it proves a good 

 species, as Underwood did a lot of guessing in this line, and he is entitled to stumble over a 

 few that are good. Dr. Burke finds it growing on Melia Azedarach. It is no doubt a species 

 imported from China. 



NOTE 334. Fomes fraxineus, from Dr. R. P. Burke, Alabama. A rare plant with us, and 

 this specimen is more like the European in texture than those I have previously seen. Spores 

 are globose, 6-7 mic. 



NOTE 335. Polyporus ovinus, sent by J. F. Conant, Massachusetts. This is correct, I am 

 satisfied on comparison with my European material. There is a faint reddish cast to the dried 

 specimens, but nothing like as pronounced as it is in Polyporus confluens. These two species 

 are close to each other and have been much confused. I have always claimed that ovinus 

 could be told by having no reddish cast. I will have to withdraw that now. Still it is not the 

 pronounced red of confluens, particularly in very old specimens. Cfr. Note 196. 



NOTE 336. Exidia purpureo-cinerea, from Miss A. V. Duthie, South Africa. We deter- 

 mine this from the description and the fact that it was named from South Africa. The short 

 diagnosis does not tell much, but it is probably correct. We noted at once that it was not a 

 European species, differing in its mode of growth, its paler color, and the dense, minute pa- 

 pillae from Exidia glandulosa, its nearest relative in Europe. It is a true Exidia with globose, 

 cruciate pale colored basidia. 10 mic. in diameter, and typical papillae. Ihe spores also arc 

 typical of the genus, 6 x 16, reniform, subhyaline, with granular contents. To our eye there is 



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