MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 942 
which no type exists but it answers the description to the letter. 
It is the Eastern analogue of Poly 3 tictus pinsitua but it^is pure 
white and unzroned. Collections of the plant at Kew from Madagascar 
are referred to pinsitus. It is quite close to Polystictus crypto— 
meniae from Japan (Myc, 
hairs are coarser. 
Notes 53. 758, fig-, 1136) but the pileus 
DENDROCLADIUM PRUTI COLA. FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig, 
1739).- Stems 2-3 cm. tall, with a few lax branches. Color brown. 
Spores colored, subglobose, 8 mic, (and others appear more ellipti¬ 
cal, 6 X 12), Grows on fruit of some kind. 
As stated page 870 we feel the genus Dendrocladiuim is^a con¬ 
venient genus embracing the "Pterulas 1 ' with colored spores. Two 
species of Pterula grow on fruits. We can not explain the two 1orma 
of spores‘we find. Perhaps one is accidental. 
POLYPORUS (SECTION ALIA T JR ODE EMU 3 ) FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA 
The section Amaurodermus- ( Cfr. Stip. Polyporoids, page 110 ) is for 
me the most interesting section of Polyporus. It is tropical only 
and the species are so different and most of them are so rare. Mr. 
Gossweiler finds them more abundantly than any other correspondent 
I have. There are more collections in this one shipment than I 
found in any museum in Europe. 
POLYPORUS (AMAUR, ) SALSBROSUS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA 
(Cfr. Letter 42, p, 14; Myc. Notes 49, 693, fig. 1036; Myc. Notes 56, 
809, fig. 1257 ),- This species appears to be the most frequent one 
in tropical Africa, W r e have it now in five different shipments, a 
dozen collections. It is characterized by the minute, satiny sur¬ 
face which sometimes takes metallic zones. The spores are globose, 
smooth, 10-12 mic., and very faintly colored. The pore tissue is 
somewhat the same color as that of Polyporus vino sub, 
POLYPORUS (AMAUR. ) FASCICULATUS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA,- 
This is a rare species and the third specimen known. (Cfr. Stip. 
Polyporoids, p. 117), Originally named from Congo Beige in 1895, 
we received a second specimen from Edouard Luja in 1912. It has a 
similar surface to Polyporus salebrosus but the context and pore 
tissue (cinnamon) and spores ( 14 X 16 mic., colored, strongly rough) 
are entirely different. This specimen has a very long’ stipe, six¬ 
teen inches tall, and must have been a conspicuous object when grow¬ 
ing. 
POLYPORUS (AMAUR. ) FUSCATUS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA 
(Fig. 1740).- Pileus with a thin, smooth, fuscous crust, separating 
easily from the context and very fragile. Context white, very thin, 
the crust almost resting on the pores. Stipe mesopodial with brown, 
dull surface. Pores pale, almost white, medium in size, about 3 mm. 
deep. Spores in abundance, elliptical, smooth, 8 X 14 mic. and very 
pale color, almost hyaline. 
We have already noticed a specimen of this section with al¬ 
most hyaline spores, Polyporus conjunctus (Myc. Notes 56, 812, fig, 
1266 ) but that has only the spores- similar to this. There is no 
species that approximates it in any way. In this section, Amauro&er- 
mus, Nature seems to take delight in never making two alike. The 
