iiycoloctIcal notes 
C. G. LLOYD 
Pago 085 
t n. 
hat group. It reached Professor Fetch from Mauritius. 
Iz. 1 j.oyi the collector. 
I do not 
STEREUH DURUM. PROM 1. HUNTER, USSY AFRICA (Fig.l52S).~ 
..ileus formed of several evidently co ales cent specimens, out the 
lines of coalescence not marled. Surface glabrous, ru.gu.lose, pale 
cervine color, with a thin crust, distinguishable from the context. 
Context thick (1 j2, cm.) rigid, hard, 
meidum fuliginous. Cystidia none« Basidia c 
sale layer, apparently with but two sterigmaia each, 
hyaline, 4 mic. He know no other species to compere. It is entire¬ 
ly different from stereum princeps which is the common, thick, woody 
stereum of the East. 
woody, pa.'e almost white« 
T Th • . 
ii.y 
o.iored, forming a paai- 
Spores globose 
POLYPORUS TEPHROLEUOUS VAR. S0RUP03US, FROM JAB. R. HEIR, 
MO TIT AHA (Fig.1527).- This has the same color, texture, pores, 
spores and every feature of the usual form excepting the rugulcse 
surface as shown in our figure. Mr. Heir found it on Picea Canaden¬ 
sis, while the usual plant generally grows on frondose wood. 
all that are known. 
He saw at New York 
from u St. Jan" which we presume 
IS SAN JAN 11 (Pig. 1528),- The island of San Jan is a 
little speck in the Hest Indies, so small that it does not appear in 
the Century Atlas. It is known, however, in mycoiogical records 
for in the early days a Hexagona was collected there and sent to 
Fries and named Hexagona leprosa. The specimen is at Upsala, and 
pieces of it are at Kew and New York. He have also gotten it from 
Rev, Torrend, Brasil, but these two specimens are 
He figured it in our Hexagona pamphlet, page 20. 
<& specimen referred to Fries’ species from "st 
is the same island. It was collected by Messrs, Britton and Shafer 
m 1915. He knew at once there was something wrong, for the pores 
are only about one-sixth the size, and the context color and tex¬ 
ture are entirely different. In a trip to Cuba (1915) we collect¬ 
ed a single specimen of a Fomes which we thought was unnamed on ac¬ 
count of its large pores. But on our return home we found it had 
exactly the same context color and spores as Fomes badius (Cfr. 
Letter SO, Note 383 ) and we considered it a large pored form of this 
species. A second specimen from San Jan however, exactly the 
same large pores (500 - 600 mic.), about double the size of the 
pores of any other known Fomes, we feel entitles it to a name. On 
the pore size alone it could be called a. Hexagona, but it has in 
Vift *n^T*A size 
great abundance small colorec 
rimesus and Fomes badius 
spores, 
and no true 
j- i 
le same as those of Fomes 
Hexagona has colored spores. 
MITRULA ROSEA, FROM G, H, CAVE, INDIA (Fig. 1529 and en¬ 
larged sixfold).- This is the neatest little fungus that has 
reached me for some time. A colored figure should be used to il¬ 
lustrate it for it is a fine rose color, both stem and head. It v .. 
grew on bare earth and I presume in a wet situation, that being 
the habit of our most frequent species, but we have no red species, 
yellow and brown being the colors of those known. The little heads 
are gyrose, inflated and resemble a Physalaoria, The stem is gla¬ 
brous and slightly paler color than the head. Paraphyses linear, 
