﻿74 
  Thirtieth 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Our 
  specimens 
  illustrate 
  this 
  also 
  with 
  the 
  bare 
  exception 
  

   that 
  the 
  pileus 
  is 
  not 
  shining. 
  

  

  Lenzites 
  Cookei 
  Berk, 
  which 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  forms 
  with 
  the 
  

   pileus 
  of 
  a 
  cervine 
  hue 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  trameto-lenzitoid 
  hymenium. 
  

  

  Our 
  specimens 
  of 
  course 
  accord 
  with 
  this 
  since 
  we 
  have 
  those 
  

   from 
  which 
  the 
  types 
  were 
  taken. 
  

  

  Lenzites 
  proxima 
  Berk, 
  should 
  also 
  be 
  added 
  to 
  this 
  list 
  of 
  

   supposed 
  synonyms. 
  I 
  have 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  which 
  accords 
  

   very 
  well 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  that 
  plant, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  really 
  only 
  

   a 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  protean 
  fungus 
  with 
  the 
  thin 
  flattened 
  pileus 
  

   completely 
  overspread 
  by 
  the 
  peculiar 
  tomentum 
  previously 
  

   described. 
  

  

  Also 
  the 
  form 
  with 
  the 
  polyporoid 
  hymenium 
  agrees 
  remark- 
  

   ably 
  well 
  with 
  a 
  specimen 
  received 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Curtis 
  and 
  labeled 
  

   by 
  him 
  " 
  Lenzites 
  Klotzschii 
  Berk." 
  Of 
  this 
  species 
  I 
  have 
  

   seen 
  no 
  description. 
  

  

  The 
  form 
  with 
  the 
  purely 
  lenzitoid 
  hymenium 
  coincides 
  to 
  a 
  

   great 
  extent 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  Lenzites 
  tricolor 
  Fr., 
  but 
  

   the 
  pileus 
  is 
  not 
  "gibbous 
  at 
  the 
  base" 
  nor 
  " 
  scabrous-tomen- 
  

   tose," 
  neither 
  does 
  it 
  agree 
  in 
  color, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  two 
  are 
  perhaps 
  

   distinct, 
  though 
  my 
  Curtisian 
  specimens 
  of 
  L. 
  tricolor 
  are 
  

   clearly 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  protean 
  fungus. 
  

  

  Another 
  remarkable 
  form 
  which 
  corresponds 
  to 
  no 
  descrip- 
  

   tion 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  has 
  the 
  pileus 
  plane 
  or 
  depressed 
  above 
  

   with 
  the 
  hymenium 
  very 
  decurrent 
  and 
  wholly 
  porous. 
  The 
  

   pileus 
  is 
  sometimes 
  so 
  much 
  reduced 
  that 
  the 
  whole 
  plant 
  

   appears 
  like 
  a 
  pulvinate 
  mass 
  of 
  pores. 
  The 
  pores 
  are 
  much 
  

   smaller 
  in 
  this 
  than 
  in 
  any 
  other 
  form 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  seen. 
  The 
  

   whole 
  plant 
  has 
  a 
  singular 
  deformed 
  appearance 
  utterly 
  unlike 
  

   any 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  forms, 
  and 
  yet 
  no 
  one 
  familiar 
  with 
  the 
  various 
  

   aspects 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  would 
  think 
  of 
  separating 
  this 
  from 
  the 
  

   others. 
  

  

  That 
  my 
  views 
  of 
  the 
  synonymy 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  forms 
  of 
  this 
  

   plant 
  will 
  prove 
  to 
  be 
  well 
  founded 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  doubt, 
  and 
  that 
  

   they 
  will 
  in 
  that 
  case 
  render 
  necessary 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  some 
  

   single 
  name 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  and 
  a 
  recasting 
  or 
  modification 
  of 
  

   the 
  present 
  characters 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  Lenzites, 
  Dsedalea 
  and 
  

   Trametes 
  is 
  evident. 
  Doubtless 
  the 
  oldest 
  specific 
  name 
  " 
  con- 
  

   fragosa" 
  should 
  be 
  retained, 
  no 
  matter 
  in 
  what 
  genus 
  the 
  plant 
  

   may 
  ultimately 
  be 
  placed, 
  although 
  some 
  such 
  name 
  as 
  "vari- 
  

   abilis 
  " 
  might 
  be 
  more 
  appropriate 
  and 
  expressive. 
  The 
  other 
  

   specific 
  names 
  might 
  be 
  retained 
  to 
  designate 
  their 
  respective 
  

   forms 
  as 
  varieties. 
  Thus 
  the 
  form 
  known 
  as 
  Trametes 
  rubes- 
  

   cens 
  would 
  become 
  Dwdalea 
  confragosa 
  var. 
  rubescens. 
  

  

  Boletus 
  Clintonianus 
  PJc. 
  

  

  This 
  rare 
  species, 
  heretofore 
  found 
  in 
  one 
  locality 
  only, 
  was 
  

   detected 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  at 
  Center, 
  near 
  Albany, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  

   growing 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  Boletus 
  ampliporus. 
  The 
  recur- 
  

   rence 
  of 
  fungi 
  after 
  long 
  intervals 
  and 
  especially 
  in 
  widely 
  

  

  