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America, and has figured under several genera since it was first 
described as#a Boletus. Soon after being transferred to Poly¬ 
porus , it was assigned to Daedalea because of its irregular pores, 
then to Polystictus because it seemed nearly allied to P. perennis. 
Quelet, however, overlooked this relationship and classified it 
under Cladomeris with Polyporus frondosus, P. imberbis, etc., 
largely on account of its hyaline spores. The species may be 
easily confused in some of its forms with Polyporus hispidus, 
but its normal form is stipitate, while P. hispidus is always 
dimidiate and the spores of the former are hyaline while those of 
the latter are of a deep golden hue. From the genus Coltricia, 
apparently its nearest ally, it differs in having hyaline spores, a 
more spongy context, differently colored tubes and a very vari¬ 
able stipe.” 
[Basidiomycetae] 
Trichaptum Murrill n. g. Polyporaceae. Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club, 31:6o8. Nov. 1904. 
“Hymenophore annual, epixylous, sessile, dimidiate; con¬ 
text brown, firm and leathery below, very loosely fibrous and 
darker above; tubes short, thin-walled, mouths polygonal, be¬ 
coming labyrinthiform; spores smooth, hyaline. 
‘‘The type of this genus is Polyporus trichomallus Berk. & 
Mont. (Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 11:238. 1849), described from Gui¬ 
ana. It resembles the old-world genus Funalia erected by Pa- 
touillard in 1900 with P. monsveneris Jungh., P. leoninus Kl. 
and P. funalis Fr. as typical species and P. trichomallus Berk. & 
* Mont, in a subsection; but it may be easily distinguished from 
Funalia by its darker context and daedaleoid hymenium. While 
splitting often occurs, rendering the hymenium irpiciform, the 
splitting is not so radical as in Funalia. The name chosen re¬ 
fers to the loosely woven context.” 
[ Deuteromycetes ] 
Amphichaeta McAlpine n. g. Melanconiales. Proceedings 
of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 29:118. 1904. 
“Acervuli beneath the epidermis, often erumpent, disc.- or 
cushion-shaped, black. Sporules elongated, with two or more 
transverse septa, at least partilallv coloured, and with one seta at 
each end; basidia hyaline filiform.” 
[ Deuteromycetes ] 
Ampullaria Annie Lorrain Smith n. g. Nectrioidaceae. 
Journal of Botany, 41 1258. Aug. 1903. 
“Perithecia growing singly, bright-coloured, globose with a 
long ostiole, formed of delicate cells; spores ovate, dark-col¬ 
oured when mature. 
“A. aurea, sp. unica. . . . 
“The fungus corresponds with Sphaeronemclla among the 
hyalinespored Nectrioidaceae. The only genus under Nectrioi- 
daceae-Zythieae-Phaesospora, following Lindau’s arrangement, 
