Fig. 886. 



IRPEX CONSORS, FROM J. B. CLELAND, AUSTRALIA 



(Fig. 887). Irpex censors (1877) from Japan, Irpex brevis (1855) 

 from New Zealand, Irpex decurrens 

 (1891) from Japan, and probably 

 Hydnum meruloides (1883) from 

 Australia, are all, I believe, one and 

 the same species. All were named 

 by Berkeley, but Irpex decurrens 

 was only a mss. name for the col- 

 lection that Berkeley published as 

 Irpex censors. Fifteen or twenty 

 years after Berkeley had named it 

 (for the third or fourth time), Cooke 

 dug up the same collection from 

 Japan which he published as Irpex 

 decurrens. Lately I have gotten 

 several collections from Japan (which 

 I referred to Irpex censors), and on 

 comparison I find in all things the 

 same as the Australian plant. It 

 does not occur in the American 

 flora. 



Fig. 887. 



