seems well to so apply it. This specimen is pleuropodial, with exactly 

 same pores as arcularius, and with little fasciculate squamules on the 

 pileus. It is evidently a rare thing. The spores about 3x6, a 

 little smaller than arcularius. It is a true Favolus for me, and so is 

 arcularius in reality, although classed as Polyporus. 



LENTINUS TUBER-REGIUM, FROM J. B. CLELAND, 

 AUSTRALIA (Fig. 959). We do not adopt Berkeley's name Len- 

 tinus Cyathus for the Australian plant, for, as will be developed 

 later, we doubt if there is more than one species of Lentinus which 

 develops from a sclerotium, and in that case it will take the older 

 and better known name Lentinus Tuber-regium. Our photograph 

 (Fig. 959) tells the whole story, and there is no need to describe it. 

 In the original description Berkeley makes no mention of the sclero- 

 tium, merely referring to the "rooting base," though, if our memory 

 serves us right, the sclerotium is preserved on the same sheet at 

 Kew. There have been six species of Lentinus described that have 

 sclerotia, viz., Lentinus Tuber-regium. Amboy Rumphius (1750); 

 Lentinus Cyathus, Berkeley, Australia (1879) ; Lentinus scleroticola 

 Samoa, Murray, 1886; Lentinus flavidus Africa, Massee, 1901; Len- 

 tinus Woermanni Cohn Africa, 1891; and Lentinus radicosus, New 

 Caledonia, Patouillard, 1902. In our opinion, they are all the same. 

 Ramsbottom (1913) holds that there are three valid species, viz., 

 Tuber-regium, Cyathus and scleroticola, stating that they "are quite 

 distinct from one another," but what the difference is he does not 

 state and we do not know. We have specimens in our museum from 

 Africa, Australia, and Samoa of this plant, and on comparison there 

 is no material difference. There may be some difference in the scle- 

 rotia. We cannot say, as we have only a sclerotium from Samoa, but 

 we doubt it. 



Many years ago (1750) before plants had specific names, Rum- 

 phius published a crude figure from the East Indies showing six 

 agarics growing on what seems a piece of earth, but which Rumphius 

 says is ^a tuber. The plants he calls "Boleti," the tuber "Tuber- 

 regium," as he probably thought they were different, though he states 

 that the "tuber" produces the "boleti." Fries named Rumphius' 

 figure Lentinus Tuber-regium, although Fries never saw a specimen. 

 The plant seems fairly common in Africa, Australia, and Pacific 

 Islands, but no specimen reached Europe for more than a century. 

 Berkeley got it from Australia (1879), together with a tuber, if we 

 mistake not, but if we are correct in our memory, he overlooked the 

 little matter of it having a sclerotium. Hennings got it from Africa, 

 and good specimens are at Berlin. Hennings failed to discover it was 

 a "new species," which is strange but true. I also remember seeing 

 fine collections at Leiden. I have no notes, but I believe they were 

 from Java. The other specimens (mostly) that I have seen, viz., at 

 museum at Paris named by Patouillard, British Museum named by 

 Murray, Kew named by Massee, Germany named by Cohn, I think 

 are all the same, although each author "discovered" something 

 "new" about them, if nothing else a "new" name. 



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