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Xanthoporia Andersoni (Ellis & Ev.) 
Mucronoporus Andersoni Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 6 : 79. 1890. 
Polyporns xanthosporus Underw. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1893 : 61. 
1894. 
This interesting species was first described from specimens col- 
lected by F. W. Anderson under the bark of an oak log at New- 
field, New Jersey, in April, 1890. Owing to its peculiar habitat, 
the plant is rarely found, although the copious yellow spores, 
which sift through cracks in the bark and cover surrounding ob- 
jects, had probably been known for some time. 
In October, 1893, Underwood collected this species in quantity 
beneath the bark of dead poplar logs near Terre Haute, Indiana, 
describing it as Polyporus xanthosporus. The following June 
it was found on an oak trunk near Emma, Missouri ; and in De- 
cember, 1895, C. G. Lloyd collected it on a dead elm or poplar log 
near Cincinnati, Ohio. 
W. A. Murrill. 
Fink’s Ascomycetes of Ohio 
A treatment of the ascomycetes of Ohio is begun in Volume 2, 
No. I, of Ohio Biological Survey . The work has been under- 
taken by Professor Bruce Fink and collaborators, of Miami 
University. 
The first part of this work consists of a preliminary discussion 
of the classification of the ascomycetes. After a rather full dis- 
cussion of the morphology and the various theories relating to 
the origin of the ascomycetes, a tentative scheme is proposed for 
the taxonomic treatment of the ascomycetes of Ohio. While the 
work is undertaken as a local matter, the principal orders and 
families of the ascomycetes are considered so that the scheme 
with some modification will apply equally well in a much broader 
sense to the ascomycetes of North America. 
It is worthy of note that in this scheme Fink has followed the 
modern trend of thought in disposing of the lichens by distrib- 
uting them among the true fungi. In many cases they are simply 
disposed of in large groups, each order or family being placed 
in its proper place among the orders and families of fungi. Some 
