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DEADALIA Pers.= 
Daedalia elegans Spreiig. Vet. Akacl. liancll. (1820) 51. Daedalia depJanata 
Fr. Limiaea 5 (18.30) 513. Lenzites cvpplanata Fr. Epicr. (1838) 404. 
Luzon, Manila {Loher) fide Massee in Kew Bull. (1899) 170. Negros (TJsteri) 
fide Henn. in Usteri Beitr. (1905) 130. 
Daedalea inconcinna Berk. Bond. .Journ. Bot. 1 (1847) 151. 
Philippines (2021 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 
Daedalia repanda (Fr.) Pers.; 8agra Hist. Pol. Nat. Cuba 9 (1845) 232; 
Pers. opp. cit. 12 (1855) pi. Uh f. 5. Lenzites repanda Fr. Epicr. (1838) 404. 
CuLiON (3574 Merrill) December, 1902, on fallen logs. Negros {Usteri) fide 
Henn. in Usteri Beitr. (1905) 130. Luzon, Province of Tayabas {Warhurg) 
fide Henn. Hedw. 32: 221. 
This species is closely related to Daedalia elegans Spreng., and may be the same. 
Specimens from tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres indicate - 
that both are extremely variable and with many intei'grading forms. 
Daedalea tenuis Berk. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 161. 
Philippines (2137 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. e. 
ELFVINGIA Karst. 
Elfvingia tornata (Pers.) Murr. Bull. To.rr. Bot. Club. 30 (1903) 301. Pohj- 
porus tornatus Pers,; Gaud.-Beaupr. Voy. Freye. (1827) 173. Pohjporus 
australis Fr. Elench. 1 (1828) 108. 
CuLiON (3572 Merrill) December 1902, on fallen logs. Philippines (2041 
Cuming) fide Berk. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3: 188. Negros [Usteri) fide Henn. in 
Usteri Beitr. (1905) 136. 
" The replacing of the genus Deadalia by Agaricus by Dr. W. A. Murrill in 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 32 (1905) 83, will hardly meet the approval of many 
mycologists. Neither is it in accord with the rules promulgated by the Botanical 
Club of the A. A. A. S., in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 31 (1904) 249, 261. Canon 15c 
requires, a citation of nonbinomial literature, but there is no such citation in 
Linn. Gen. PI. ed. 5 (1754), 492 under Agaricus Dill. The crediting of the genus 
Agaricus to Dillenius does not constitute a citation as it is not definite enough. 
It should refer to some work in particular. Besides this Canon 15/ provides 
for the selection of the types of Linnean genera from the most common or officinal 
or European species as suggested by Linnaeus, Phil. Bot. (1751), 197. There 
are but few mycologists who will not agree to accept Agaricus campestris L., as 
the type of the genus Agaricus. 
The next name used for this group of species was, according to Murrill, 
8 triglia Adans. Fain. PI. 2 (1703), 10, based on “Battar. t. 38.” This consists 
of figures A-G and d. The only one of these figures with its accompanying 
description that can be connected with a binomial contemporaneous with or 
earlier than Adanson is fig. d, Agaricus pectunculi forma elegans Batt., under 
which is given as a synonym Agaricus parvus lamellatus pectunculi forma elegans 
Raii. This name is given under Agarico-fungus lamellis bifidis pulvcruleniis 
Hall. Enum. Helv. 1 (1742) 58, which is in turn cited under Agaricus alneus 
Linn. Sp. PI. 2 (1753) 1170. Therefore, the name Striglia Adans., under the 
above-cited rules, must replace the generic name Schizophyllum Fr., unless there 
is still an older valid name, in which case it would become a synonym. 
Under the same rules Daedalia quercina (L. ) Pers., would become the type of 
the genus Dadalia Prs. Syn. ( 1801 ) 499. 
