112 OBSERVATIONS ON SOME SPECIES OF NEAPOLITAN FUNGI. 
There we have shown tha the A. strobiloides , Brig, jun., is an 
abnormal form, having a pileus 11 rimoso-tessulato ” of the A. 
Aegirita, Brig., qualified by Fries, who had no opportunity of 
examining fresli samples, with the following words : — “ Species 
admodum singularis” (Hym. Eur., p. 219). Therefore we have 
considered this species as a variety of the A. Aegirita, Brig. 
(Fung. Nap., p. 25, t. vi., f. 1-8). Then also the species of A. 
Briganti, Fr. (Hym. Eur., p. 219 ; Cooke et Quelet, cl.,p. 67, No. 
841), correspondent with the A. strobiloides , Brig, jun., with the 
changed name, ought to be considered as a synonymous name of 
the A. Aegirita , Brig., var. strobiloides. 
6. Lentinus auricolor. Fr. — (Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 473, No. 10; 
Cooke et Quelet, ee. syn., p. 187, No. 4). Fries has ascribed to 
the genus Lentinus the species of Agaric named by Briganti A. 
auricolor (Fasc. I. di funghi litogr. Napoli. 1824, tav. Q. ejusd. 
Hist. fung. Neap., p. 23, tab. 13.), an agaric which, living on several 
plants, and chiefly on the olive tree, in the countries of Southern 
Europe, in summer and in autumn. Yet the subjects we collected 
in the same locality named by Briganti correspond perfectly to the 
description of the A. olearius , DC. If Briganti had examined the 
subjects in the dark, he would have noticed thephosphorescence, as 
we in all cases have observed, and he would not have been induced 
into the error of making another species for an agaric already des- 
cribed. He therefore named this species A. auricolor , from the 
golden colour of the whole fungus. Micheli, in fact, says — 
“ Fungus perniciosus, intense aureus , ex uno pede multiplex, ad 
oleam nascens Fungo olivo, dorato , malefico ; Majo, Sep- 
tembri, at Novembri mensibus per sylvas ad sepes, et in agris, 
praecipue ad oleas.” (N. pl. gen., p. 191). And Fries says — “ A. 
olearius, varius, rufo -aureus” (S. M., I., p. 273). 
There remains, therefore, no doubt as to the identity of the two 
species A. auricolor , Brig., and A. olearius , DC. In consequence 
of which also the Lentinus auricolor , Fr., ought to be retained as 
synonymous of the A. olearius, &c., as we had proposed in our 
publication at p. 17. 
7. Polyporus Ceratonise. — Bisso in Barla Champ Nic., p. 60, t. 
30, f. 1-3; Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 552, No. 109; Cooke et Quelet 
Cl. syn., p. 179, No. 108.) 
The diagnostic phrase of Bisso in l.c., for the definition of this 
species, corresponds substantially with that quoted by Fries for the 
P. sulphureus (S. M., i., p. 357, No. 6) ; and Bisso himself adds 
that the species he described has a great resemblance with the 
Boletus sulphureus , Bull., which he suspects may be a variety of 
this form, from which, however, it differs in the colour of the flesh, 
which is white. We are doubtful in giving too great an impor- 
tance to the colour of the flesh, following the example of Fries, 
who, in Epic. Syst. Myc., p. 450, adds, in speaking of the P. sul- 
phureus, “ carna flavida, dein albicante.” Having had the oppor- 
tunity of examining many fresli samples of the Polyporus that 
