CEYLON POLYPOm. 
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“ Tantum forma gracilior Polypori melanopodis Sw.” 
It was collected at Peradeniya by von Höhnel, and 
recorded by Bresadola {loc. cit.). 
442. Polyporus picipes Fr. (403). 
Herb. Peradeniya contains part of one specimen of 
Thwaites 403 in sections, and much damaged by insects 
Herb. Kew contains part of the same Thwaites’ 
collection. One specimen in Herb. Kew, marked 
‘‘ Pol. picipes Fr. var., Ceylon, Gardner,” appears 
to be a young P. rugosus. The other specimens are 
P. dictyopus Mont. 
443. Polyporus sanguineus Fr. (381 ; Gardnei 111). 
Herb. Peradeniya contains four specimens of 
Thwaites 381, thin, attached along one edge or by a 
definite disc. In Herb. Kew, sub Polystictus san~ 
guineus are a Ceylon specimen, ex Herb. Hooker, 
labelled P. cinnaharinus by Berkeley, with the name 
changed by Berkeley (in pencil) to P. sanguineus ; 
six other Ceylon specimens, two of them white, col- 
lected by Thwaites in 1850 ; another collected by 
Thwaites in 1851 ; and a specimen from Thwaites 381. 
In Hooker’s London Journal of Botany, VI., pp. 
479-514, Berkeley recorded, for Ceylon, P. sanguineus 
Fr., Gardner 111, and P. cinnaharinus Fr., Gardner, 
without number. The latter was not enumerated in 
Fungi of Ceylon, Jour. Linn. Soc., XIV., pp. 1-140. 
Under P. cinnaharinus^ in Herb. Kew, are a specimen 
from Ceylon without number or collector’s name, and 
another “ Talagalla, Ceylon, Gardner,” neither of 
which differ from the specimen with name changed suh 
P. sanguineus ; and another marked P. cinnaharinus* 
Ceylon 111. The last-mentioned is a thin specimen, 
and was published as P. sanguineus in the 1847 list. 
All the specimens from Ceylon are the same species, 
viz., P. sanguineus. It would seem possible that 
specimens recorded from the tropics as Trameies 
cinnaharina are merely thicker examples of P. sangui- 
neus. Trametes forms of the latter, growing on the 
