MYCOLOGICAL NOTES C. G. LLOYD Page 1062 
Polystlctus pavonius in the original sense is one of those phantom 
names that have been floating around without definite meaning for a 
hundred years and it is well we think to give it a definite meaning. 
POLYPORUS RHINOCEROTIS, PROM T, F. CHIPP, COLLECTED BY C. 
BODEN KLOSS IN SUMAREA (Fig,1997 ).- (Cfr, Myc. Notes page 1037 fig. 
1900 ). Polyporus sacre came originally to Fries in the old days 
from Africa, It was a celebrated plant on account of having a 
sclerotium (tuber) and was used by the negroes in some superstitious 
rite. Cooke got a small pored form from Malay and named it Polyporus 
rhinocerotis without the slightest idea of any connection with Poly- 
porus sacre, misdescribed it in three important features so no one 
could recognize it and put it in a different .genus ( sic ) from Poly¬ 
porus sacre. I dug it out at Kew and found it different only in its 
smaller pores. It is a pity it was held as other than a small pored 
form of Polyporus sacre. Only one collection was known (Malay) when 
X was in Europe but since it has reached me from Malay, Ceylon, 
Sumatra (now) and several from the Philippines and every one of them 
have the same minute pores materially smaller than the original 
plant as it grows in Africa. Although we have already figured the 
plant, we give another (Fig. 1997) of this fine specimen from Mr. 
Chipp. 
POLYPORUS ARMADILLUS FROM E, D. MERRILL, PHILIPPINES (Fig. 
1998 ).- Woody. Stipitate. Color isabelline, the pore tissue 
slightly darker. Pileus surface rugulose, zonate, concolorous. 
Context isabelline, woody about 1 cm. thick. Stipe lateral, 1 l/2 
cm, thick, with interior a continuation of pileus context and surface 
smooth, "fuscous" of Ridgway, Pores very minute not visible to the 
eye, with dark, isabelline tissue and fuscous mouths, Qystidia none 
Spores globose. 4 mic. , hyaline, smooth. 
A remarkable species not similar to any other Polyporus I 
ever saw. In the fungus world I hardly know any other with which to 
compare it but the rugulose surface suggests an armadillo. The 
stipe about two inches long is broken off. We enter it in Section 
11 ( Lignosus ) though it is decidedly woody and in former days would 
be a Fomes. Still it is surely not perennial in the sense of having 
stratose pores. But one collection is known, No. 36060, collected 
by H. S, Yates, Isabella Basilan Island. 
Fomes latistipitatus from John E. A. Lewis, Japan (Fig. 1999 
reduced from 15 cm, tall to 10 cm. ).- Pileus with a lateral rooting 
stem, probably attached to buried wood. Surface hard, dark, smooth, 
rugulose. Stem about 3 X 12 cm. hard, woody, with soft, spongy outer 
flesh. Context hard, Argus brown, woody. Pores minute, hard, con¬ 
colorous, Setae with inflated base. Spores scanty (if correctly 
seen) globose, 5 mic. deeply colored. While this has but one pore 
stratum we hold it a true Fomes from its woody nature though true 
Fomes rarely have stems. Sometimes Fomes applanatus (or rather the 
hard crust form) develops a stem (then called Fomes gibbosus ) but it 
is rare with us, more common in the tropics. If this Japanese 
specimen had hyaline spores it would be analogous to Fomes pcmaceus, 
but the scanty spores we note are colored and we know no similar 
species in Section 72 ( sessile ) from which it could be derived. Our 
figure 1999 is reduced to about two thirds the diameter. Since the 
