is from the specimen in a jar. Dr. Cleland sent his specimens preserved 

 in formalin, and they are exactly the same as the African collection. 

 Illustration, Engler & Prantl, page 185, very good. 



LASCHIA. B \UMANNIANA. Scantily known from the type in alcohol at 

 Berlin It came from Africa, and is recorded as yellow when fresh. It is same shape, 

 but smaller and more slender than Staudtii. The microscopic features are not 

 known. 



LASCHIA CAESPITOSA, FROM DR. J. B CLELAND, 

 AUSTRALIA (Fig. 921). Pileus conical, smooth, pale when dry, 

 white (?) when fresh. Stipe slender, mesopodial, caespitose, and 

 coalescent at base. Pores small, angular, very deep and long. 



This seems to be a frequent species in Ceylon, Australia, New 

 Caledonia, and New Pomerania, but unknown to me from other 



Fig. 921. 



Fig. 922. 



Eastern countries. It is recorded from Philippines, but I have seen 

 no specimens. Berkeley first got it from Ceylon and named it Favolus 

 manipularis. At that time Berkeley's ideas of the genus Favolus was 

 Laschia of the present day. Afterwards Berkeley modified his view of 

 the genus, and when he received the plant some years later from Aus- 

 tralia he called it Laschia caespitosa, a better name for it. In recent 

 years it has been named Laschia gogolensis and Laschia Lauterbackii 

 by Hennings, and Polyporus mycenoides by Patouillard. As it is unique 

 in its long pores, differing in this respect from all other species, it 

 should not have had so many names. It grows caespitose "50 or 

 more" in a clump, it is said, on rotten logs. In general aspect it re- 

 sembles an Omphalia. Our photograph (Fig. 921) is from the type at 

 Kew, and also (Fig. 922) a section through a piieus (somewhat en- 

 larged) of a specimen sent by Dr. Cleland. 



LASCHIA GRACILIS (Fig. 923). Pileus thin, subgelatinous, 

 pale. Pores minute, white, gelatinous. Stipe mesopodial, slender, 

 smooth, reddish when dry. Cystidia none. Spores (P.) globose, 

 5 mic. apiculate, hyaline, smooth. 



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