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mi™, N ° TE 986 ~ POLYPORUS ( GANODERMUS ) DUROPORUS PROM H. H. HU, 
c?.* A* Pileus and stipe intensely black, shiny, strongly lac cate. 
jl P e mesopodal. Pores minute, hard, conpe.ct, purplish. Spores 
8 X 10-12, strongly rough. 
Excepting its mesopodal stipe this to the eye is much like 
Polyporus mastoporus, having the same minute, hard purplish pores by 
which these plants differ from those of the lucidus group. We would 
consider it a mesopodal stipe form of Polyporus mastoporus but the 
strongly rough spores place it in a different section (3). 
NOTE 986 - POMES GIBBOSUS WITH HAZEL CONTEXT, FROM H.H. HU., 
CHINA.- If there is one feature that seemed constant in the whole 
Femes applanatus group it is the context color. Several hundred 
collections are in our museum from every country probably and I do 
not believe there is one in the lot that does not have this color. 
We called it bay in our pamphlet but as we compare it now burnt umber 
would be better. This specimen has context corresponding to hazel, 
much lighter than any we ever saw before. We call it Pomes gibbosus 
but of course this is only a name for a.stalked form of Pomes 
leucophaeus. 
HUBERT, ERNEST E., WISCONSIN: Odontia fimbriata - Polystictus 
pargamenus - Daldinia concentrica - Polyporus volvatus - De.edalea 
confragosa - Polyporus adustus - Polystictus hirsutus - Xylaria. 
polymorpha - Polyporus albellus - Xylaria Hypoxylon, 
JENKINS, DR. ELIZABETH, DAYTON, OHIO; BOVISTA NIGRESCENS 
(PROM SYRIA). 
NOTE 987 - BOVISTA NIGRESCENS PROM DR. ELIZABETH JENKINS.- 
This was sent "from the mountains of Syria and brought in by shepherds 
The ball is filled with a brown powder which is used for healing cuts 
and is wonderfully efficacious." 
The species occurs throughout Europe and we have an analogous 
species Bovista pila. None of our puff balls are employed in med¬ 
icine nowadays, but in the times of the old herbalists the gleba.of 
Calvatis gigantea ( Lycoperdon giganteum of former days ) was used and 
had a reputation for stopping the flow of blood, and was called 
"Bovista". How the name became transposed to the genus of small puff 
balls to which it is now applied I have not tried to trace back. 
An amusing instance came to my notice in looking up "Bovista" in the 
Century dictionary. The article is illustrated by a cut of Bovista 
ammophila (now Bovistella ) copied (though not. so stated) from 
Leveille. It was based on a single specimen found in Southern Prance 
in 1848. The original is preserved in the museum at Paris and to 
this day not another specimen of this species has ever been found. 
Of what practical use it is to employ it as a popular illustration 
is not patent on the face. 
KAUFPMAN, DR. C. H., MICHIGAN: Exidia glandulosa - Calocera 
corticalis - Tremella foliacea - Dacryomyces aurantia - Guepinia 
alpina (?) - Exidia Candida. 
KAWAMURA, SEIICHI, JAPAN: CORDYCEPE SOBOLIPERA. 
