PILEATE MERULIUS LACRYMANS, FROM JOHN DEAR- 

 NESS, CANADA (Fig. 872). We present photographs of what we 



take to be pileate Meru- 

 lius lacrymans. In all 

 our books and in all 

 specimens we ever saw, 

 Merulius lacrymans is a 

 resupinate plant, and it 

 seems impossible that it 

 could develop a pileate 

 form. At the same time 

 it is no more improbable 

 than that the two speci- 

 mens we photographed, 

 one sessile apus, the 

 other stipitate, should be 

 the same thing, and they 

 grew from the same my- 

 celium and were differ- 

 ent developments of the 

 same plant. We know 

 our reference will be re- 

 ceived with incredulity, 

 but with the same con- 

 text, same tissue, same 

 hymenium, same spores, 

 same habitat, we believe 

 we are correct in so re- 

 ferring them. There are 

 more strange things un- 

 der the sun, Horatio, 

 than are dreamed of in 

 your philosophy. 



Prof. Dearness states 

 that he collected forty 

 pileate specimens, apus, 

 pleuropus, mesopus, all 

 with good pileate de- 

 velopment 



IRPEXOWENSII. 

 FROM J. M. GRANT, 

 , P . , 7 , WASHINGTON 



fig. S/J). In a pamphlet on the genus Radulum, now in type, but 



not printed, we include under the 

 name Radulum Owensii, speci- 

 mens received from C. E. Owens 

 (No. 2028 on Quercus). It was a 

 good "Radulum." In fact, we mis- 

 took it for Radulum hynoideum 



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Fig. 872. 



