MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 943 
color of this is about what Ridgway calls fuscous- and it does not 
approximate any other species* Unfortunately the specimen slipped 
out of its envelope so I cair. not cite its number.. 
POLYPORUS (AMAUR. ) AURISOALPIUM, 
This 
is the second time 
this South American species has reached me from. Africa ( Cfr. Letter 
69, Note 773). It is exactly the same to the eye as Polyporus 
trull if ormis. (Letter 42) and only differs in spores. Auriscalpiurm 
lias pale colored, smooth spores, globose, 3-10. Trullifonnig. has 
oval, rough, colored spores, 12 X 13. Our figure 174E which is the 
type of trulliformia could be taken for either. 
POLYPORUS (AM AT JR. ) LOMOTILS PROM .JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA 
(Pig.1742).- Seventy-five years ago LeveilXa. found in the museumi 
at Paris a collection made in French Guiana,, South America, which 
he named as above.. This specimen from. Mr, Gossweiler (tropical .‘I 
Africa) is the second collection ever made that agrees exactly with 
the type. The species has a peculiarity which Leveille did not 
known The spores (Pig. 1743 )'have narrow, raised, wing-like bands 
that run parallel* This was not known as to any other species 
until recently when I got a plant from the Philippines with this 
same peculiar spore but a much larger plant and different in other 
respects. It was named Polyporus costatus (Let. 56y Note 256), 
Assuming-that Polyporus sostatus is different, is it not strange 
that Mr. Gossweiler is the first to collect this plant in Africa 
seventy-five years after it was named from South America? 
POLYPORUS BIQGILTOSL FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Pig. 1744). 
Pileus effuso-reflexed, yellowish brown with dull surface. Context 
concolorous, soft, easily indented with the finger nail. Pores 
c one o lor Qua with slightly darker mouths. Spores (abundant;-) hyaline^ 
smooth, elliptical, 4 X 6-. Setae none. 
To the eye this is Polyporus gilvus. but differs in context, 
absence of setae and spores, 
gilvus crowd in 96. 
It goes in Section 91 instead of the 
POLYPORUS LUTE0-OLIVA.CEUS FROM PROP. T. PF rrr 
, CEYLOir (Fig; 
Usually a thin plant, 2-4 mm, thick and 
the reference of this thick specimen 
1745 ).- Triquetrous form, 
several inches in diameter 
would appear dubious, but for me with the same surface, context- 
color, texture, pores and 
spores 
, 4 - 
(4 X 12) it is the same species. 
This thick form we would enter in Section 94. The context color 
is nearer Isabella than "olive-yellow 11 of Ridgway , Mr. Petch also 
sends a collection (6037 ) that for me is a thick form of Poly stictus 
aratus which for me is a dank form of Poly stictus luteo-olivaceus. 
The context color approximates brownish olive 
of 
Ridgway. 
POMES DURISSIMUS PROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig. 1746),- 
Pileus hard, heavy, applanate, usually thin -with hard, narrowly sul- 
cate, black crust. Context Argus brown to my eye with indistinct 
pore layers. Setae none. Spores globose, 4 mic., deeply colored, 
A common plant/ in both Eastern and American, tropics, easily 
known by its very hea.yy weight and texture. While I have known the 
plant for years I have had my doubts as to a valid name for it. In 
my Pomes pamphlet I referred a Madagascar collection to Pomes 
