MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1098 
Tremella ferruginea, English Botany t. 1452 an excellent figures and 
the name that should be applied to it. Probably Bulliard 272 (on 
which the name Tremella fimbriate, of the books is based ) but no speci¬ 
men of this aspect known although the color is suggestive. 
ZENKER, DR. GEORGE., AFRICA.- As noted in previous shipments, 
Dr, Zenker is a,most liberal collector and when we get a. species from 
him it is then abundantly represented in the museums. 
Lycogala Epidendrum - Geaster mirabilis - AURICULARIA DELICATA - 
Trametes Meyenii - Xylaria anisooleura - Stereum Bolleanum - XYLARIA 
COMPOSITA. 
NOTE 1044 - AURICULARIA DELICA&A FROM DR. GEO. ZENKER, AFRICA.- 
Dr. Zenker notes "essbar". It is close to the Jew's ear, which is 
eaten largely by the Chinese. All species of Auricularia,. are similar 
and are collected and shipped in quantities from New Zealand, Pacific 
Islands to China.and are important commercial products, 
&ESUPINAIES 
The situation is this. Several hundred foreign collections 
have been named as Poria, Corticium, etc., and not one can be de¬ 
termined from an anything published. The only way to ever learn them 
would be to study them in the museums where these! ''types’' are pre¬ 
served and no one has ever done this as to foreign species, and prob¬ 
ably no one ever will as it would require several years to do it right. 
About all the past work that has been done on the subject is pure 
bluff and much that is being done at present. Men pose as having 
sufficient knowledge of the subject to decide what are "new species" 
when as a matter of fact they do not knew the identity of one out of 
fifty that are named in the museums. Such work impresses me and 
always has impressed me as being of little value. A man will make 
enough mistakes if he has really studied his subject. If he has not 
studied it intelligently then his new species and old species too are 
purely guess work and of no value whatever. Take the publication of 
any real student, such as Lister on the Myxomycetes, Burt on the 
Thelephoraceae, men who have done honest and thorough work on special 
subjects, and note the details of the blundering and superficial work 
that was done before them, mostly by men who proposed "new species" 
without knowing the old ones that grow, in their own back yards. 
We get many specimens of Poria, resupinate Thelephoraceae, foreign 
Hypoxylons, Hypocreaa, Pezjzas, etc. that we do not know and can not 
name and we so advise our correspondents. We are glad to get them 
even if we can not name them. They will all be preserved and if we 
never find time to intelligently study these aections, perhaps some 
day someone else may. But I take no stock whatever in any one who 
claims now to be able to decide on a "new species" of Poria, foreign 
resupinate Thelephoraceae, resupinate Hydnaeeae, foreign Pezizas, the 
great world of Hyphomycetes and the equally great world cf foreign, 
small Pyrenomycetes, etc. Any one who claims to be able to know 
them to the extent that he knows five percent of the old species or 
what are "new.species" is making a fraudulent claim on the face of it. 
HyphomyceteAny good collector, especially in the tropics, 
will find many Hyphomycetes or Fungi Imperfecti as those have called 
them who do not know much about them. 
