with doubt (cfr. Note 297, Letter 59) to Femes scutellatus, an American species, with which 

 it exactly accords to the eye. We have since found that the spores of Femes scuteliatus are 

 entirely different, hence must rename the Australian plant. It goes in Section 57 of our 

 Femes Synopsis. Type (No. 52) from Dr. J. B. Cleland, Australia. 



NOTE 357. Trametes heteromorpha, from Mrs. A. M. Hadley, Vermont. Named by Fries 

 as Lenzites, but takes Trametes forms also in Europe. The identity of our American plant 

 with the European is not fully established, but I believe it to be the same. 



NOTE 358. Polystictus planus, from Mrs. A. M. Hadley, Vermont, This is a rare plant 

 and this is the best specimen I have ever gotten. It was named as above by Peck. It occurs 

 in Europe, but is very rare. My collections from Europe are all very scanty. Bresadola, who 

 tried to substitute the name Trametes stereoides for Trametes mollis of Fries, or, as I call it, 

 Daedalea cervina of Persopn, considered this a small-pored variety which he named var. Kmetii. 

 I do not consider it a variety of Daedalea mollis. Romell takes it as the true Polyporus stere- 

 oides of Fries, basing his opinion on a specimen in Fries' herbarium, so labeled by his son 

 Robert Fries, although there is a specimen of Daedalea cervina labeled by Fries himself in the 

 herbarium as Polyporus stereoides. Fries describes the pores as "majusculus," so shows them 

 in his Icones and states the plant grows on Abies and has white pores. The pores are always 

 minute, cinereous, and it does not agree with Fries' Icones and is never known to grow on 

 Abies. I therefore cannot agree with my friend Romell. I think Polyporus stereoides of Fries 

 is only a synonym for Daedalea mollis and has nothing to do with this plant, even as a form. 

 Fries, in my opinion, called the pileate form of Daedalea cervina as Polyporus stereoides, and 

 the resupinate form Trametes mollis. Polystictus planus has the coloration of Daedalea cer- 

 vina, but otherwise with its minute pores is entirely different. The spores are 4x10, cylin- 

 drical, straight. 



NOTE 359. Sistotrema confluens, from C. C. Hanmer, Maine. I collected the plant 

 once in Sweden, but these are the third specimens I have from this country. It is rare. 

 It is an amb'guous plant as to classification between Hydnaceae and Polyporaceae, but 

 should be included in the latter in my opinion. Bulliard called it Hydnum and Persoon 

 and Fries both included it in Hydnaceous plants. The plant has pores which are sinuate, 

 daedaloid, with walls prolonged into teeth-like projections. When fresh as you look 

 directly at the face of the hynienium, the walls of the pores are continuous and there is 

 no question about it having pores. It is only a side view that gives it an Irpex appearance. 



The old genus Sistotrema of Persoon, which was based on sinuate pores prolonged 

 into teeth, would not have been a bad genus, but the Friesian treatment of restricting it 

 (mainly) to this one species and splitting off the genus Irpex is not so good. Banker's 

 recent proposal to include it with species having definite, awl-shaped teeth is about as 

 absurd a proposition as any one could make who knew anything about the classification. 



NOTE 360. Hydnum Peckii, from Miss A. Hibbard, Massachusetts. I name this only from 

 the description and, of course, it is doubtful. It is a rare plant, and this is the first time I have 

 received it. It belongs to the section with hard, subwoody context, but the pale color distin- 

 guishes it from all others known to me in this section. Spores are irregular, light colored, 

 tubercular. 



NOTE 361. Polystictus pubescens, from Burtt Leeper, Ohio. Fine, typical thick speci- 

 mens. Polystictus pubeseens and Polystictus velutinus are the same species. If it is thick, 

 it is Polystictus pubescens ; if it is thin it is Polystictus velutinus. Dried specimens are always 

 yellowish, but when fresh, as I have collected them in Sweden, they are white, acquiring a yel- 

 lowish tinge in drying. Polystictus Greyii is also close, but differs in more glabrous pileus. We 

 do not know it in Europe, but with us it is abundant on beech late in the fall, and white when 

 growing, turning yellowish in drying. It is thin and has been called a smooth form of P. 

 velutinus, but for me it is a good species. 



NOTE 362. Polyporus trabeus. Recently on a trip to the mountains of West Virginia 

 we found Polyporus trabeus a number of times, and have also received a fresh specimen from 

 Burtt Leeper, Salem, Ohio. When fresh and wet it is grey with zonate, grey flesh. When dry, 

 pure white in all parts. The surface is minutely pubescent and the flesh soft and spongy. The 

 word "crumbly" in our previous description refers to the dried flesh. When fresh it is just the 

 opposite from "crumbly." 



NOTE 363. Lenzites subferruginea, from John E. A. Lewis, Japan. This is frequent in 

 Japan and replaces Lenzites saepiaria and has the same bright context. I have over twenty 

 collections of it, mostly from Japan. There are bright forms and pale forms. The latter are 

 the most common. The bright forms are same color as Lenzites saepiaria, but are smooth in- 

 stead of hirsute. The gills are more distant. I have sorted the specimens into four lots, but 

 I do not pretend to say that they are species. 



No. 1, The usual form in Japan with bright context but pale or dull surface. 



No. 2, Bright smooth surface and context. Thick form \vith broad gills. 



No. 3, Bright smooth surface and context. Thin form with narrow gills. 



No. 4, Bright form with pubescent surface. It cannot be told from Lenzites saepiaria and 

 I have so labeled the two collections I have from Japan. 



Forms 2, 3 and 4 are perhaps nearer Lenzites saepiaria than Lenzites subferruginea. 



NOTE 364. Lenzites murina, from John E. A. Lewis, Japan. These are the first I have 

 received of this species, which for me is a good species (cfr. Letter 36, page 3). It has been 

 referred (in error, I think) as a variety of Lenzites betulina, 



NOTE 365. Stercnm Galeottii, from Rev. Louis Mille, Ecuador. This is only the smoothish 

 form of the common Stereum lobatum of the tropics. These plants are almost glabrous. I have 



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