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Mycologia 



The Tuckahoe, or Pachyma cocos, was illustrated and described 

 at some length in the Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin for June, 

 1 92 1. This fungous sclerotium was not used for food to any 

 great extent, if at all, by the Indians, because it has little nutritive 

 value; the word tuckahoe was simply a general term applied to 

 any edible root. Various medicinal properties have been ascribed 

 to Pachyma cocos, but there seems to be no real foundation for the 

 traditional belief in its curative virtues. 



The following note regarding Krieger's remarks on Amanita 

 panthcrina, recently published in Mycologia, has been sent me by 

 Neuhoff. According to him, A. pantherina DC. is undoubtedly 

 poisonous, and is so considered by practically all mycologists every- 

 where; but in Germany it has been confused by Michael with the 

 non-poisonous species, A. spissa Fries, and this error has been 

 widely disseminated. Several authors are quoted by Neuhoff to 

 support his opinion, among them Ricken, Romell, and Kauffman. 



I have been endeavoring for some time to locate the original 

 collector of Ganoderma orcgoncnse, published in 1908 in North 

 American Flora. The following extract from a letter received 

 from Prof. Kirkwood seems to supply the missing information: 

 " I think that the collection of fungi to which you refer was one 

 that I made in the summer of 1905, along the Tillamook coast. I 

 remember having packed a box which I sent to you along about 

 August of that year, or maybe in September. I kept no record of 

 them, but think there was a Ganoderma in the lot." 



Philippine polypores were discussed by Graff in the Torrey 

 Bulletin for last November. He uses Polyporus Mariannus Pers. 

 for P. anebus Berk. ; P. rhodophoeus Lev. for Pomes semilaccatus 

 Berk.; Ganoderma leptopum (Pers.) Graff for G. umbraculum 

 Pat.; Pomes lineatus (Pers.) Graff for P. fastuosus Lev.; and 

 Fomes roseo-albus (Jungh.) Bres. for P. caliginosus Berk. The 

 following species of Murrill are reduced to synonymy : Ganoderma 

 Curranii equals G. leptopum; Pyropolyporus Williamsii equals 



