MYGOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 881 
LENTINUS BLEPHARODES, FROM T. HUNTER, REST AFRICA (Fig.1511). 
~ This line species of Lentinus is originally from the American 
m.opicS; and it is rare in the East. It is quite close to Lentinus 
velutinus,.often confused with it but is a larger plant, the pilous 
margin striate and the pileus not so velutinate as the stipe * We 
present an underview to show the enlarged stipe where confluent with 
tne gills. This, however, we thinh is not a constant character. We 
o.1sg present a figure (1512) of Lentinus similis, an Eastern species 
only similar’ as to pileus but different entirely as to its stipe 
covering. Berkeley, however, confused his own species and his Cey¬ 
lon determination and records of Lentinus blepharodes were based on 
specimens of Lentinus similis. Our photograph of Lentinus similis 
is made from a dried, pressed Philippine specimen, to show the stipe 
character, but the species is not recorded in the Philippines. It 
is doubtless confused in the “velutinus u records* The spores of 
Lentinus blepharodes are cylindrical, 3 X 6 and the edges of the 
gills which appear even to the eye, have numerous smooth, hyaline 
projecting cystidia under a lens. 
POLYPORUS (AMAURODERMUS ) NIGER, FROM DR. G. ZENKER, ’.TEST 
AFRICA (Fig. 1513).- Entire plant, glabrous, black. Stipe pleuro- 
podial with a dull, black surface, often branching above and bearing 
Pilei thin, glabrous, black with uneven but not 
two pilei. 
;oned 
surface. Context isabelline. Pores very minute and pore tissue r 
black. Spores globose, 6-7 mic., smooth, pale colored. This is the 
only really black Amaurodqrmus known* It should be added to Section 
7b. The spores are smaller than those of most species. Dr. Zenker 
collected it on wood. 
CAHTHARELLUS BUCCINALIS (Fig. 1514).- This was named from 
Ceylon as Trogia infundibuliformis* The tropical Cantharelli which 
are thin have been called Trogia, but this is a perversion of the 
original idea when the name was based on channeled gills., I have 
not seen the type of Trogia infundibuliformis, which was loaned when 
I was at Kew. However, I have but little doubt of its accuracy and 
it tits the description. It seems to occur in the tropics generally 
I found it common in Samoa and the photograph was made from fresh- 
specimens. I have it also from the West Indies. It was previously 
recorded from the Philippines as Cantliarellus partitus, which nay be 
true but if it is the "type 11 is depauperate. It was from New Zealan 
and about the size of your finger nail, with a very short stipe, end 
not much can be told of it. Nor is it parted, hence the name has 
no application if it is correct. In the American tropics it was 
named Cantliarellus buccinalis. Patouillard' s figure has the base 
of the stipe largely exaggerated, and Montague’s figure represents 
a plant too large, thick and fleshy. The species can not be recon¬ 
ciled to either figure. As I found it growing in Samoa it was gre¬ 
garious on logs. At first white, it soon became pale brown and she 
old dried specimens turn very dark. The stipe was very slightly ex¬ 
panded at the base aid had a small, white, mycelial pad. Our figur* 
represents the fresh plant from Samoa, also a dried and a soa,hed 
plant fr on t he ? hi 1 ipp ine s. 
