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1096. Poria (Rigidi) subaurantia, Berk. 
Effusa, subrigida, secernibilis, ochracea demum aurantio, maculata- 
margine tenuiore, sterili, poris majusculis, rotundatis, subsequalibus, 
dissepimentis tenuibus, acutis, integris. — Polyporus subaur antius , 
Berk, in Herb. No. 2859. 
Ad cortices. Carolina, U.S. (2500). 
1104. Poria (Rigidi) hyperboraea, Berk. Herb. Keio. 
Ad truncos. British North America (Dr. Richardson). 
This also is a very doubtful species, not apparently described. 
There is but a single specimen, which apparently is the resupinate 
condition of Polystictus, and probably Pi hirsutus or P. velutinus. 
1130. Poria (Retie) Cincinnati, Berk. 
Effusa, ocbraceo-pallida, tenuis, subtomentosa, margine extremo 
elevato, poris magnis, concavis, inaequalibus, rotundato- angulatis, 
dissepimentis brevibus, obtusis, hinc illic suppressis. — Polyporus 
Cincinnati , Berk in Herb. No. 2920. 
Ad cortices. Cincinnati, U.S. (Lea 230). 
1131. Poria (Retie) porotheloides, B. Sp. C. 
Alba, effusa, membranacea, subtus fuscescens, adnata, margine 
sublibero, plerumque sterili, poris brevissimis, hinc illic obsoletis, 
angulatis, inaequalibus, pallidis, dissepimentis venulosis. — Polyporus 
porotheloides , Berk. & Curt, in Herb. Berk. No. 2889. 
Ad cortices, &c. Venezuela. 
Pores in some parts reduced to almost inappreciable depres- 
sions, sterile portions albo-tomentose. 
ENCHIRIDION FUNGORUM.* 
We are glad to meet with our friend, and in one instance 
coadjutor, Dr. Quelet, in type again ; and we congratulate him 
on the production of this work, almost uniform in size and style 
with the “ Clavis Hymenomycetum.” Unfortunately, those con- 
gratulations cannot proceed much further, for, in our opinion, the 
interminable alterations and sweeping revolution that he has made 
throughout cannot claim our sympathy, and must render his labour 
practically useless ; for no one would think of passing through an 
entire course of education in order to comprehend and use it. To 
explain the extent of these alterations is hardly possible ; the 
genera are altered, the sequence is changed, and the whole scheme 
of the Hymenomycetes reduced to a delightful chaos. In the first 
place, the Hymenomycetes become transformed into Gymnobasidii 
and the Agaricini into Polyphyllei. Here we encounter the follow- 
ing genera in succession : Am'inita, Lepiota, Gyrophila (which 
includes Armillaria, Tricholoma , in part, and the other part as 
Gymnoloma , as subgenera), Omphalia (which includes Clitocybe ), 
Collybia , Mycena , Oinphalina (most of the old subgenus Omphalia ), 
Calathinus (which represents part of Pleurotus), and Hygrophorus, 
which completes the Leucospori. Further on in the work, after 
* Enchiridion Fungorum in “ Europa media et praesertim in Gallia 
vigentium, ’’ scripsit, L. Quelet. Lutetia, 1886. 
