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have come in since that time, and I have discovered at Kew that 

 another specific name has priority over the one I then used. This 

 is Poria albocincta, described as follows from specimens collected 

 on bark on the Island of St. Vincent : 



" Tota resupinata, atro-cinerea, demum fissurato fatiscens ; 

 margine lato, niveo, pulverulento, tenui ; tubulis circa i mm. 

 longis, poris minutissimis, inconspicuis. Sporis ellipticis, 4x2^." 



The only host mentioned in the new collections is Ilex lucida. 

 Additional collections are : 



Mexico, Murrill 224 ; Porto Rico, Earle 116, Stevenson & 

 Johnston 1482; Guadeloupe, Duss 574, 906. 



2. Tinctoporia graphica (Bres.) comb. nov. 



Poria graphica Bres. Hedwigia 35 282. 1896. 



Collected on dead sticks in Brazil by Moller and described as 

 below. A portion of the type is in the Garden herbarium. 



" Late effusa tenuissima, lilacino-carnea, margine rubello, 

 subiculo nullo; tubulis vix Y\ mm. longis; poris elongatis, sinu- 

 osis, variis, dissepimentibus tenuissimus praeditis ; sporae non 

 visae. Hyphae subhymeniales 3 /x latae." 



3. Tinctoporia Fuligo (Berk. & Br.) comb. nov. 

 Polyporus Fuligo Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 53. 1875. 

 Polyporus Ravenalae Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 53. 1875. 

 Polyporus BiUtneri P. Henn. Verh. Bot. Ver. Proc. Brand. 30 : 

 129. 1888. 



Poria glauca Pat. Jour, de Bot. 5 : 312. 1891. 



Originally described from Peradenya, Ceylon, and several 

 times collected in the Orient. P. glauca was described from Ton- 

 kin and P. Buttneri from Cameroon, Africa. This species is 

 thin, annual, black, with a glaucous bloom in young stages, and 

 does not stain the substratum red. 



W. A. Murrill 



Notes on a Few Papers Read at Chicago 



Among the many interesting papers presented at the twelfth 

 annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society held 



