HIGHER BASIDIOMYCETES FROM THE PHILIPPINES 
AND THEIR HOSTS, I 
By 0. A. Reinking 
Plant Pathologist of the College of Agriculture and of the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Los Banos, P. I. 
An attempt has been made to collect the higher Basidiomycetes 
of the Philippine Islands from known hosts. Few collections 
of the fleshy and woody fungi in the Philippines or in other 
countries have been made with a view to determining the trees 
attacked. Miscellaneous collections of such fungi are currently 
made by dumping them into a sack and later separating them 
and sending them away for determination. While it is absolutely 
impossible to give the hosts in each instance, because of their 
decayed condition, determination of a large number of species 
was accomplished by examination of wood sections. I am in- 
debted to the Bureau of Forestry for the majority of the wood 
determinations. In a study of forest-tree- and timber-destroying 
fungi, it is of the utmost importance first to become acquainted 
with the flora in the forest and then to know whether or not a 
particular fungus is confined to a definite plant. A survey of 
these fungi has shown that the vast majority found on dead 
wood are not confined to specific plants. Most of the species 
will grow equally well on a large number of woods. The pa- 
rasitic ones apparently are more apt to be confined to definite 
hosts. 
The species of this list are grouped, in so far as possible, 
according to the classification of Engler and Prantl with the 
host and the collector under each class of fungus. The num- 
bers refer to the College of Agriculture fungus herbarium. 
The collections have been made on Mount Maquiling and in the 
vicinity of Los Banos, Laguna Province, Luzon, in Mindanao, 
and in Sulu, either by me or by my students under my direc- 
tion as indicated in the text. The identifications of the fungi 
in this list were made by N. Patouillard, of Neuilly sur Seine, 
France. 
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