POLYSTICTUS SINUOSUS, FROM JOHN A. STEVENSON, 

 PORTO RICO (Fie. 888). This is the same plant as Poria smuosa, 

 excepting it develops a narrow, reflexed pileus. Pons smuosa in 

 Europe Ld the Unfed States is always resupmatc It is very close 

 to Polystictus pinsitus, but the sinuate hymemum (Fig 888) is of a 

 differenf type. -If is also quite close to Polystictus Blumei of the 

 East. 



POLYSTICTUS GLABRATUS, FROM PROF. A. YASUDA, 

 IAPAN (Fie 889). Pure white, drying white. Pileus spathulate or 

 cuneiform from a short, stipe-like base. Context thin, white^ Surface 

 uneven, glabrous, very faintly zoned. Pores small, round, fleshy, en- 

 tire. Cystidia, none. Spores allantoid, 1> x 4-5. 



Fig. 889. 



A Polystictus with glabrous surface is rare. We have one in the 

 United States (P. Grayii) which differs in form and texture. The 

 description of Polystictus cuneiformis from the Philippines is the 

 same as to the pileus, but the spores (unless they are in error) are 

 entirely different. Berkeley has a Polystictus sub-pellucidus from 

 Japan which is close. The type at Kew is quite poor and was de- 

 scribed as silky, hirsute. Polystictus elongatus, a common plant in 

 the East, is also close, but differs as to texture, surface and pores. 

 Type, Yasuda, No. 372. 



LENZITES GUINEENSIS, FROM P. VAN DER BIJL, 

 SOUTH AFRICA (Fig. 890). T>is is another of the old Friesian 

 species, originally named from South Africa, of which no type exists, 

 and is determined from the description. Fries gives a figure in Re- 

 liquias Afzelianae which corresponds closely enough. Surely it is 

 only a form of Lenzites betulina (as originally referred by Fries), with 

 the same surface and context color (white), but it is a more rigid form 

 than the European, and has thick, rigid gills. It differs from the 

 description, as the edges of the gills are not "dark, cinereous," but 

 it is not worth while embarrassing the subject with a new name 

 because of a little discrepancy of this kind. We have gotten the 



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