NEWS, NOTES, AND REVIEWS 
“Western Polypores,” by W. A. Murrill, was issued March 
25, 1915- It contains descriptions of the pileate species occur- 
ring in California, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, 
together with descriptive notes and complete keys to the genera 
and species. Polyporus McMurphyi, Polyporus Zelleri, Inonotus 
Leei, Pyropolyporus Abramsianus, and Elfvingia Brownii are 
described as new, while Scutiger hispidellus (Peck) and Pomes 
amarus (Hedgcock) are newly combined. Crytoporus volvatus 
appears in this work as the only representative of a new tribe, 
the Volvatae, characterized by the presence of a volva. The poly- 
poraceous flora of the Pacific coast has been until recently very 
imperfectly known, and much field work still remains to be done 
in many parts of the region. 
A paper on the Polyporaceae of Wisconsin, by J. J. Neuman, 
containing 156 pages of text and 25 plates, has just appeared as 
Bulletin 33 of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History 
Survey. The family is treated in the broadest Friesian sense, 
including Solenia, Porothelium, Merulins, Gloeoporiis, Fistulina, 
and the Boletaceae, in addition to the true polypores. The brief 
descriptions of species are accompanied by quite complete and 
helpful notes on habitat, occurrence, and relationship. Several 
introductory pages are specially devoted to species destructive to 
timber trees in the Wisconsin forests. Of the true polypores, 
over one hundred are recorded for the state. The author pro- 
poses one new variety. Pomes nigricans popnliniis, which might 
better have been based on Pomes igniarius. The plates add to 
the value of the work for purposes of identification, although 
most of them are, unfortunately, rather poor reproductions. 
Russula and Marasmius in North American Flora 
Volume 9, part 4, of North American Flora, by Gertrude S. 
Burlingham, William A. Murrill, and Leigh H. Pennington, ap- 
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