surface color, hence not exactly the same, but too close for a new 

 name I believe. There was a "Daedalea tenuis" named by Berkeley 

 from the East, which is really a Lenzites, and as it is yellow, and same 

 as Lenzites flavida (and about forty other names) it should not 

 embarrass the use of Leveille's name for this white species. Lenzites 

 tenuis is a rare plant in the West Indies, and I have heretofore only 

 known it from the two "type localities." 



TRAMETES SENSITIVA, FROM PROF. A. YASUDA, 

 JAPAN (Fig. 1062). Resupinate, irregular, thick, rigid, probably 

 pileate when well developed. Surface and the crust reddish brown. 

 Context and pores pure white, unchangeable in drying. Pores minute, 

 rigid, round. Cystidia none. Spores not found. 



Fig. 1062. 



Trametes sensitiva. 



This reminds me so much of Trametes incondita (of South 

 Africa, Cfr. Myc. Notes, page 551, Fig. 756) that until I compared 

 them I thought it was probably the same. It has the same irregular, 

 indefinite habits of growth. It is the second polyporoid, known to 

 me, with a marked chemical test. (The other is Polyporus rutilans.) 

 When Trametes sensitiva is touched with an alkali, it changes at 

 once to red, which color shortly disappears. 



DUCTIFERA MILLEII, FROM REV. LOUIS MILLE, 

 ECUADOR. The genera of Tremellaceae are not all defined. 

 Since the microscope came into use, they are based on the basidia. 

 These were first clearly pointed out by Tulasne, but as he was a stu- 

 dent and not an inventor of names, it was left for subsequent savants 

 to propose names based on the features that Tulasne demonstrated. 

 Brefeld went into the basidia and structure of tremellaceous plants in 

 the greatest of detail. We have in the United States and South 

 America, and no doubt other countries, tremellaceous plants with 

 structural features not known as to European species. The most 



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