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383. P. conchifer, Schwein. ! The true species exists in Hook. Herb., and is most 

 beautiful and distinct, differing in character and habit from every thing else. Very 

 fine specimens were gathered by Mr. Lea in Ohio. The Schweinitzian specimens be- 

 fore us seem to be a discolored state of P. virgineus, of which however we have seen 

 no authentic specimens. 



385. P. decipiens, Schwein. ! (marked P. affinis.) This has larger pores than P. 

 versicolor, and is of a yellowish tinge, but still is not a very well marked species. 



386. P. parvulus, Schwein. There is no species of this name in the Herbarium, 

 but the plant mentioned above under 381 (" P. poroides — pinicola") is probably the 

 one intended under the present number. 



387. P. scutellatus, Schwein. ! A very curious species, extremely well described, 

 but not closely allied to any published species except P. compressus, Berk., a Swan 

 River Fungus. 



388. P. sanguineus, Fr. 



389. P. CINNABARINUS, Fr. 



393. P. benzoinus, Fr. Authentic specimens from Fries are totally different from 

 this, which has the colors of such species as P. radiatus, scruposits, &c. It is indeed 

 very closely allied to the former, from which it differs in its larger size and less yellow 

 substance. It can therefore retain the name of P. fusco-gilvus, originally given to it 

 by Schweinitz, and by which it is ticketed in the Herbarium. But our specimens are 

 not sufficiently good to allow of our drawing up a specific character, and possibly it 

 may be identical with P. cuticularis, Fr. 



395. P. nidulans, Fr. 



396. P. cuticularis, Fr. Not the true plant of Fries. It is clearly a form of his 

 P. conchatus. 



397. P. rutilans, Fr.=P. scruposits, Fr. Schweinitz himself says, " an carpi- 

 neus" and it is certainly the same with No. 379. 



398. P. gilvus, Schwein.! (Hook. Herb.) Sir W.J.Hooker's specimens are P. 

 scruposus, Fr., but Fries must have received something very different under this name. 



399. P. marginatus, Fr. 



401. P. annosus, Fr. Certainly not the plant of Fries, but more like P. iyniarius, 

 which perhaps it may be, though our notes and recollection of the specimen are 

 imperfect. 



402. P. dryadeus. Fr. Not the European species, from which it differs evidently 



