LASCHIA INTESTINALIS 



(Or Poroauricula intestinalis, as it may be called.) 



This must be a rare plant as this is the first specimen or record I 



have seen, excepting the type at Kew. It was originally from India, 

 named seventy years ago as Favolus 

 intestinalis and still so found in Saccardo. 

 Certainly it is not a Favolus which does 

 not have gelatinous texture and is not a 

 true Laschia in the present sense. The 

 basidia appear to me to be of the "pluriloc- 

 ular" type and it is related to "Auricu- 

 lariella" section in Saccardo, Vol. 6, page 

 407. This section comprises now three 

 "species" (all of which are the same, 

 "Laschia" delicata) and really a different 

 "genus" from this. In "Laschia" delicata 

 the hymenium is universal over a folded 

 surface. Laschia intestinalis has definite 

 pores like a Hexagona, and the hymenium 

 is on the sides of the pores only. The 

 bottom of the pores is sterile. We do 

 not like to multiply the genera, but McGinty 

 proposed for it Poroauricula. We present 

 a photograph (Fig. 1058) of the type at 

 Kew, the only specimen heretofore seen 

 by us. Specimen from E. D. Merrill, 



Philippines (Luzon, H. S. Yates, 25824). We believe it has not been 



previously collected in the Philippines. 



"Laschia" delicata, a very similar plant, but with folds instead of 



pores, is frequent in tropical countries. It is better called Auricularia 



delicata. 



AN INTERESTING SCLEROTIUM FROM REV. BOUT- 

 LOU, WEST VIRGINIA (Fig. 1059). What is undoubtedly the 

 sclerotium of some fungus was 

 sent me in quantity by Father 

 Boutlou. It grew in manured 

 places, and as shown in our 

 photograph, sometimes reaches 

 a diameter of an inch. The 

 surface is smooth and black and 

 the context hard and white. 



There are in the tropics 

 several species of fungi that are 

 known to be produced by sclero- Fig- 1059 ' 



tia. The best known species are the Lentinus Tuberregium (Cfr. 

 Myc. Notes, page 666), Polyporus sacer in Africa (Cfr. Stipitate 

 Polyporoids, page 122), Polyporus tuberaster in Europe (Cfr. Stipitate 

 Polyporoids, page 166), and several others. We do not, however, 

 as far as known, have in the United States any species of fungus 



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Fig. 1058. 



