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Mycologia 



Schisophyllum me.vicanum Pat. Jour, de Bot. i: 171. 1887. 



(Type from Mexico.) 

 Schisophyllum Egelingianum Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 



439. 1895. (Type from Mexico.) 



This species is one of the most common of all fungi, occurring 

 on dead wood of various kinds in all lands. Schizophylhim um- 

 brinum is a small, multifid, tropical form of this species, which 

 appears much the same in all the collections at Paris and Kew, 

 being represented there by specimens from Brazil, Surinam, 

 French Guiana, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Specimens in the Ellis 

 Herbarium from Nicaragua labeled Schizophylhim iniiltifiditm 

 digitatum agree with this form. vS. pavoniinn, from Mexico, 

 in the Kew Herbarium, and 5'. pusilliim, from Australia, at Up- 

 sala, are not distinct from H. alnens, and the description of 5". 

 exiqmim Miq., from Surinam, leads one to believe that this also 

 is a synonym. Schizophyllum flahellare Fries, a name occasion- 

 ally assigned to American material, applies to a large and very 

 distinct oriental species collected by Alfzelius in Guinea. 



Seattle, Washington, Frye; Stanford University, California, 

 Dudley 147, Nohara 65, Miss Patterson 4/; Abrams 14/. 



7. Resupinatus (Nees) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. i: 617. 



1821 



Resupinatus atrocoeruleus (Fries) 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) atrocoeruleus Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 190. 

 1821. 



A cosmopolitan species easily recognized by its hairy surface 

 and peculiar coloring. 

 California, Harper 16. 



8. Geopetalum Pat. Hymen. Eur. 127. 1887 



I. Geopetalum geogenium (DC.) Pat. Hymen. Eur. 127. 1887 

 For a description of this species, see Mycologia for January, 

 1912. 



Seattle, Washington, Murrill 288, 45^, 584, Zeller. 



