A LIST OF KNOWN PHILIPPINE FUNGI. 
By P. L. PviCKER. 
{'U . (S’. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. G., U. (S'. A.) 
Ill 1904 the author coiniiieiiced the study of a small collection of 
Philippine fungi made liy Elmer D. IMerrill, mostly during the preceding- 
year, consisting of about GO numbers, of -whicli nearly two-thirds belonged 
to the Polyporales. As a preliminary to the identification of anything 
more than the best known species, a card catalogue of the species already 
described from or credited to the Philippines, and a l)ibliograp]iy of the 
mycological literature of the Islands -was made, ddiiis far fourteen 
articles have been found dealing -wholly or in part with Philippine fungi, 
and from these articles there has been compiled a list of about 150 species 
descrilied or reported from the Philippines. 'The citations for the orig- 
inal puhlications of all ))inomials have been carefully verified and 
corrected, as many of the references in Saccardo’s Sylloge, Strenz’ 
ISlomenclator, and in most of the papers included in the appended bibli- 
ography can not be depended upon and they are especially unreliable in 
the citations for coml)inations. 
This list should iiot he regarded as a critical revision of the species 
already known from the Philippines, but only as an attempt to In-ing 
together all references to species credited to the Archipelago by various 
authors, as a basis for further critical studies.^ I am indebted to Dr. 
W. A. l\Iurrill, of the INew York Botanical Garden, for assistance in the 
identification of some of the more difficult species of the Polyporales. 
^ One paper on Philippine fungi, overlooked by Mr. Ricker, was discovered just 
as the present article was going to press: Berkeley, Contributions to the Botany 
of II. M. S. Challenger, XXXVJII, Enumeration of the Fungi collected during 
the Expedition of li. M. S. Challenger, 1874-75, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 16 
(1878), 38-54. On pages 45 to 48 thirty-flve species and varieties of fungi are 
enumerated under the heading “Camiguin, Malanipa, and Malamon (Philippines).” 
Two of these, Lensites applanata Fr., and Uirneola rufa Berk., are from Little 
Ke Island according to the list, and shoiild have lieen enumerated on page 45 
under Little Ke, this island not being one of the Philippine group. A list of 
the Philippine species enumerated by Berkeley is appended to the present paper 
and the title has been inserted in the bibliography. — E. D. M. 
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