UYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
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which the genus is now maintained but as he did not belong to 
advertising crowd they do not cite him in connection with it. n 
the custom of writing personal names after plants had any meaning 
were other than a senseless form they would write Schroeter after 
Aleuro discus for it was he who gave the genus the meaning it now 
We refer Mr. Forbes i plant to the species named by Eurt with 
much misgiving. It is ochraceous buff rather than pinkish buff, 
ane shape are tubercular, not echinulate, but Burt states 
his collection ‘'had many of the spores even 1 '. The aculei of 
those shown on the flexuose paraphyses rather 
than on those with u aculeate prongs". There ore In the tropics 
several similar species (so named) supposed to be distinguished by 
minor structure features, principally of the paraphyses and roughness 
or smoothness of the spores. The paraphyses vary much in the same 
mount and the spores according to age, and the fact that Hoehnel’s 
and Burt’s figures of the paraphyses of the same species sometimes 
do not look anything alike only emphasizes the difficulties of micro¬ 
scopic features. 
the paraphyses ore like 
STEREUM PRINOEPS 
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FROM DR. CH. BERNARD, JAVA (Fig.1653 o 
rot 
caused by the fungus).- We present a photograph of a piece 
of wood sent by Dr. Bernard which shows the characteristic rot 
known as "pocket rot" produced by the mycelium of stereum princeps. 
Somewhat similar rots are caused in this country by stereum frustu- 
losum, stereum subpileat urn, Hymenochaete unicolor and Femes putearius 
which are all that are known to me though there may be other species 
that produce this rot. Stereum princeps is the largest Stereum that 
grows and is common in Java and occurs in India, Philippines and 
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was a foot in diameter and a cm. thick, xo 
Junghuhn in 1839. Junghuhn published a number of species and well 
other Eastern countries. I saw a specimen at Leiden from Java that 
It was named from Java by 
illustrated most of them. 
but Berkeley who named many tropical fungi 
did not seem to be In touch with Junghuhn*s work and re-named 
several. This plant he called Stereum scytale and Stereum contrarian. 
We have in our Southern States an analogue of Stereum princeps 
named Stereum subpileatum. It is a much smaller plant and often 
largely resupinate though it develops pilei an. inch wide and the 
name "subpileatum" is not very applicable to the usual collection. 
It is similar in its microscopic features and it produces the same 
peculiar "pocket rot" as Stereum princeps of the East. 
THE GENUS SCHINODOTHIS 
The genera of the Hypocreaceae appear to me to be in much 
confusion. The data is not at hand to strai&ten them out until the 
original specimens are hunted up and studied. In old times the genu3 
Hypoerea embraced about all the large, effused, pulvinate o* 
species. Then they began to base the genera on the spores, 
Hypocreas that had filiform spores were called Hypocrella. 
Atkinson proposed Echinodothis for Hypocrea tuberiformis, a __ 
species on Arundinaria in our Southern States, which has sessile, 
free perithecia. Rev. Rick published his species as Dussiella 
Orchideacearum, but Dussiella if maintained it appears to me should 
be restricted to species with imbedded perithecia. It appeal’s 
originally to have been a very bad genus based on two plants that 
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