POLYPORACEAE FROM JAPAN 



William A. Murrill 



The following interesting collection of Japanese polypores, 

 seventy-one packets in all, was recently received for determina- 

 tion from Professors S. Kusano and S. Nohara, of the Agricul- 

 tural College, Tokyo Imperial University. The Garden her- 

 barium has formerly contained very little material in this group 

 from Japan, and little has been known of the distribution of the 

 species there, except through the published papers of Professor 

 Hennings, of the Berlin Botanic Garden, who has reported the 

 majority of the fifty or more species known to occur in Japan. 



These specimens were collected in Tokyo (including Komaba), 

 Iwaki, Shinano, Shimoosa, Konodai, Mt. Takao, Yoyogi, Nikko, 

 Yumoto in Nikko, Oki Province, Formosa and Karafuto. The 

 chief collectors were S. Kusano and S. Nohara, but the following 

 names also appear : K. Miyake, Ch. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, T. Tanaka, 

 Onuma, Yagi and Nakahara. The collector last mentioned ob- 

 tained most of the specimens sent from Formosa and Karafuto. 



Professors Kusano and Nohara are now planning to collect 

 fungi in various parts of Japan on a larger scale, which seems 

 highly desirable, as the mycological flora of Japan is apparently 

 largely unknown at the present time. 



Tribe POLYPOREAE 



Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) Karst. Medd. Soc. Faun. Fl. 

 Fenn. 5 : 38. 1879. 



Yoyogi, on dead trunk of Celtis sinensis, Nohara, 48. Tokyo, 

 on some dead tree, Kusano & Nohara, 70. 



Bjerkandera fumosa (Pers.) Karst. Medd. Soc. Faun. Fl. Fenn. 

 5:38. 1879. 



Tokyo, on dead trunk of Populus nigra pyramidalis, Kusano & 

 Nohara, 20; on Populus nigra pyramidalis, Onuma, 65. 

 Coltricia cinnamomea (Jacq.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 



343. 1904. 



Tokyo, on the ground, Nohara, 57. 



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