Notes and Brief Articles 



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included, 3 of which — A. Gusmanianum, A. picipes, and A. Mos- 

 selmanii — are proposed as new. 



Inonotus perplexus was found at Yama Farms, October 25, 

 192 1, on a small dead trunk of Populus grandidentata. The clus- 

 ter of overlapping pilei extended for ten inches or more up and 

 down the trunk about a yard above the ground. 



Professor F. S. Earle has returned to Porto Rico and is located 

 at Central Aguirre, which is on the dry side of the island and not 

 very good for fungi. He still finds a few specimens, however, 

 which he shares with the Garden. Mrs. Earle is with him. 



Professor A. F. Hutchinson, of the University of British Co- 

 lumbia, located at Vancouver, has sent for determination a box of 

 woody fungi from his region. Among them is a handsome speci- 

 men of Ganoderma oregoncnse, collected on a dead stump of 

 Pseudotsuga taxifolia. 



Dr. H. H. Whetzel, who is this year acting as first agricultural 

 assistant in the Department of Agriculture, Bermuda, has sent to 

 the Garden herbarium his first collections of fungi from that 

 region. Dr. Whetzel will have an unusual opportunity for work- 

 ing up the fungi of Bermuda. 



The sclerotia-forming polypores of Australia are described and 

 figured by Cleland and others in Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 

 43 : 11-22. pi. 1-5. 1919. True sclerotia are said to be caused by 

 Polyporus mylittae and P. minor -mylittae, and false sclerotia by 

 P. tumulosus and P. basilapiloides. 



Several large and handsome photographs of fleshy fungi have 

 recently been presented to the Garden by Mr. A. W. Dreyfoos, of 

 Mount Vernon, New York, who has been interested in the fungi 

 for several years. Among them are group pictures taken in the 

 field of Chanter el floccosus, Clitocybe illudens, and Lepiota 

 procera. 



