NOTE 344. Polyperus subradiatus, from I. B. Pole Evans, South Africa. (Cfr. Apus 

 Polyporus, page 346.) This was named from Japan, but evidently same species. Had it been 

 named from this collection, it would have been called sublicnoides, for to the eye it is exactly 

 same as Polyporus licnoides, but differs entirely in microscopic details. I do not find spores 

 in this collection, but note on the hymenium a few hyaline, sharp, thin walled, smooth, pro- 

 jecting hyphae (cystidia?). 



NOTE 345. Polyporus (Ganodermus) mollicarnosus, from I. B. Pole Evans, South Africa. 

 Pileus sessile, a foot or more in diameter. Surface not laccate, pale buff color, smooth, soft to 

 touch. Context very soft and spongy, light color, varying from buff to isabelline. Pores small, 

 round, an inch or more long, with concolorous mouths. Spores 8 x 12-14, very pale color, 

 smooth. 



This plant impresses me as exceptional among the Ganodermus section in its very soft 

 flesh and pale spores. I know no other with such flesh excepting Polyporus colossus, which has 

 a differently colored context, snd larger spores. J would class it in Section 102 of my recent 

 Apus Polyporus pamphlet. It is an evident annual and probably of rapid growth. Type 

 No. 58 from I. B. Pole Evans, South Africa. 



NOTE 346. Stereum illudens, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. Miss Wake- 

 field states that Stereum spiniferum (Note 155, Letter 51) was based on young specimens of 

 this species, and I think she is right. It is a frequent species in Australia. Not known 

 elsewhere. 



NOTE 347. Polyporus arcularius, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. The 

 Australian plant is darker in color and not so scaly as our American plant, but surely same 

 species. 



NOTE 348. Polyporus decipiens, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. (Cfr. Apus 

 Polyporus, page 355, figure 390.) Recently this has been listed as Trametes. Properly it should 

 be called Phaeotrametes, as Prof. McGinty proposed. It must be admitted that it is a better 

 Trametes than it is Polyporus or "Hexagona," and it is not very good as either one. It is 



NOTE 349. Polyporus Hartmanni, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. A fine 

 specimen. This species is closely allied to Polyporus radicatus of the United States. It is only 

 known from Australia and Miss Flockton is the only one of my correspondents who sends it. 

 In fact, the only specimens known to me are those in my museum from Miss Flockton and two 

 old collections at Kew. The color of the dried plant is a rich orange brown, about chestnut of 

 Ridgway. Cooke's figure badly shows it. 



NOTE 350. Stereum Leichardtianum, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. The 

 determination is not sure, though probably in same sense as Miss Wakefield has recently used 

 the name. The type at Paris is a single specimen (from Australia), and if this plant, it is a 

 young specimen of it. These are old specimens and show glabrous and pubescent zones. The 

 type has no glabrous zones, but that may be a detail of age. In this sense the plant is quite 

 close to Stereum lobatum. Spores teste Miss Wakefield 3-3 V 2 * 7-9. Owing to the vague 

 character of most of Leveille's naming, there is no certainty that this is correctly named, but 

 the name is as good, or rather as bad, as any for it, and the plant needs a name. 



NOTE 351. Polystictus oblectans, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. As stated 

 in my Stipitate Polyporoids, page 164, this is at best a form of Polystictus cinnamomeus of 

 Europe and United States. I have now six collections from Australia and from them can get 

 a good idea of it. It has the same bright color and only differs in more pronounced, coarser 

 fibrils (sometimes erect) on the pileus. I have also a collection of Polystictus cinnamomeus 

 from Australia, exactly the same as our American plant. 



NOTE 352. Lycoperdon piriforme var. flavunt, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Austra- 

 lia. Remarkable for the bright yellow color of the young gleba, and it has a smoother context 

 than the European plant. I think it is really a species, but too close to piriforme. 



NOTE 353. Hexagona similis, from Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Australia. A fine collec- 

 tion of this Australian species, the first I have gotten. It is quite close to Hexagona rigida, 

 but smaller pores. Both species are close to Hexagona tenuis, but thicker plants with fibrillose 

 surface. This is the best collection of the species I ever saw. 



NOTE 354. Bovista plumbea var. nigrescens, from J. M. Grant, Washington. This is for 

 me a dark form of Bovista plumbea, though it might be held to be Bovista nigrescens of 

 Europe, a small form. I think the former is the correct view, for Bovista nigrescens with same 

 spores, etc., as plumbea in Europe corresponds to Bovista pila with us, in grosser characters. 

 Bovista nigrescens type of Europe has never been found in the United States, although I have 

 it from Mexico. 



NOTE 355. Fomes scutellatus, from D. B. Griffin, Vermont. Every time I get this little 

 species, and it seems fairly common on alder branches in the Eastern States, I hunt for the 

 spores, but I never found them until this specimen. Here they are abundant. They are 

 straight, cylindrical, hyaline, about 3^, x 10-12 mic. 



I referred (with doubt), Letter 59, Note 297, an Australian collection to our American 

 species. As it develops that the Australian plant, though similar to the eye, has entirely 

 different spores, we are forced to give it a new name, as follows: 



NOTE 356. Fomes Clelandii. Pileus sessile, small, 1-2 cm. in diameter. Surface black, 

 rugulose. dull. Context isabelline. Pores minute with white mouths. Cystidia none. Spores 

 elliptical, 6-7 x 7-8 1 /,, subhyaline, opaque, smooth. When this was received it was referred 



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