MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 963 
GRANT, J. M. , WASHINGTON: Mostly Discomycetes which were 
named by Dr. Seaver. Aleuria aurantia - Lachnea hemisphaerica - 
Creonectria ochroleuca - Pseudopiectaria nigrella - Geopyxis 
cupularis - Trametes carnea - Ustulina vulgaris - Hymenochaete spreta 
- Pomes applanatus - Lycoperdon piriforme - Polystictus abietinus - 
Polyporus croceus - Poria V/eirii - MERULIUS CARBONARIUS - Coniophora 
arida - MUCRONELLA ALBA - TREMELLA SARCOIDES - Tremellodon gelati- 
nosum. 
NOTE 857 - MERULIUS CARBONARIUS PROM J, M. GRANT, WASHING¬ 
TON: Resupinate, 4-5 inches or more over a burnt log. Sub-hymenial 
tissue. Hay's brown when soaked, of a soft, spongy texture, drying 
hard, horny and pale with a slightly reddish tint. On a flat surface 
probably normally 3-4 mm. thick, but in this specimen where it has 
filled up an angle in the host it is in one portion over an inch 
thick. Hymenium drying with permanent, shallow pores which when old 
are somewhat irpicoid. Color orange (Kaiser brown) when moistened. 
Cystidia infrequent, projecting 16-20 mic., thick walled, hyaline. 
Spores hyaline but not seen by me. 
A species distinct from any known to me and I can not 
mention one that suggests it. The coloring matter resides in elonga¬ 
ted cells of the hymenial tissue which is sharply distinct from the 
sub-hymenial. 
GRIPPITHS, DAVID, CALIFORNIA: Lysurus Mokusin. 
GRIFFITHS, DAVID, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Polyporus sulphureus. 
GUILLEMIN, HENRI, FRANCE: Stereum multizonatum. 
HEMMI, TAKEWO, JAPAN: Stereum fasciatum - Lenzites acuta - 
POLYSTICTUS GLEADOWII - Fomes pomaceus - POLYSTICTUS CONCHIFER - 
TRAMETES UNGULAIAl - Stereum (Hymenochaete ) attenuatum - Hydnum 
Copelandii - Hypoxylon multiforme - Trogia crispa - Hydnum ochraceum - 
Lenzites betulina - Polystictus abietinus - IRPEX UNICOLOR. 
NOTE 858 - POLYSTICTUS CONCHIFER FROM TAKEWO HEMMI, JAPAN: 
This is such a frequent species on elm in the States that I have 
often wondered why it did not reach me from some other country. At 
last it has come in from Japan, Polystictus conchifer is a peculiar 
species as illustrated and explained on page 41, Myc, Notes. Poly- 
poroid Issue No.2, Late in the season it usually produces abortive, 
secondary pilei on the upper surface near the, base. These are little 
concave growths similar to a shell, hence the name. 1 think it is 
a case of habitude, the only one known to me. During the winter the 
fertile pileus falls away leaving this sterile growth which persists 
until the next season. This has led to the impression first proposed 
by Morgan that the new plants are derived from these cups, 1 am 
satisfied from many years observation it is a mistake. They never 
produce new growths but finally disappear. Murrill, in his ambition 
to discover new genera bases one on this feature and defines it 
''hymenophore preceded by a cup-shaped sterile body," I think he has 
his cart before his horse. The "sterile body" proceeds from the 
hymenophore. At any rate the finding of this most peculiar species 
in Japan is of much interest. 
