Fig. 947. 



Australia, 14; India, 1; Ceylon, 3; West Indies, 3; South America, 



2. We have also a small but typical collection 



from A. Yasuda, Japan (Fig. 947). While the plant 



from Mr. Lewis is different from the usual plant, it 



will probably prove in time to be due to conditions 



of growth. 



POLYPORUS VOLVATUS, FROM J. E. A. 

 LEWIS, JAPAN (Fig. 948). A fine collection. 

 Forty years ago Peck named this unique thing, 

 although it is common now in sections of the United 

 States, and a number are in our museum. It is also 

 found in China and Japan. We have it from Prof. 

 A. Yasuda, Japan. By comparing the photograph of the Japanese 



specimen (Fig. 948), sent by Mr. 



Lewis, with our photographs of the 

 American plant (Myc. Notes, 

 Polyp. Issue, page 25) it will be 

 noted that they are absolutely the 

 same in every respect. It should 

 open the eyes of those who look 

 upon fungi as "local" and mostly 

 "new species" when a species as 

 unique as this occurs in the United 

 States, Japan, and China. Other 

 wise it is not known in any country. 

 A full account of the plant was 

 given in our Polyporoid Issue, No. 

 2, page 25. 



CANTHARELLUS PAL- 

 LI DUS, FROM A. YASUDA, 



JAPAN (Fig. 949). Pleuropodial, fleshy, spathulate, or lobed, thick, 

 with obtuse gills. Color described when fresh, very pale, almost 

 white. Specimens now discolored. Spores 

 4x8 mic., hyaline, smooth. 



Two specimens were received. One 

 was lobed, as shown in our photograph, 

 the other slender, and but little enlarged 

 above, resembling in a general way 

 Clavaria pistillaris. Our figure made 

 from a dried specimen soaked out of 

 course does not give a correct presenta- 

 tion of the plant such as a photograph 

 of a fresh specimen would. 



Pleuropodial Cantharelli are very 

 rare. This is the first we have ever 

 gotten. Eight are listed in Saccardo. 



Fig. 949. 



Three in Europe, all un- 

 known to me except from illustrations, and no possibility of being 

 this plant. Berkeley named a Cantharellus flabellatus from Japan, 

 but as he described it as having narrow gills, and thin, it is prob- 



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