MYCOLOGICAL HOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1100 
York, we feel chagrined as we think of the way dear, old Professor 
Peck was used. All during his life it was a constant struggle for 
him to get his plates published in an acceptable manner and it is no 
secret that his plates of agarics are not what they should have been’. 
Had Professor Peck been a better politician and a poorer mycologist, 
perhaps the results would have been different. One time when I visit- 
ed him a number of years ago, I found him crowded out in a little 
hallway with his specimens stored about in boxes, and he told me 
many of them never survived the experience. It will always be a re¬ 
proach to the great state of Hew York that the ''powers that be" were 
so niggardly with Professor Peck and did not appreciate the merits of 
the man. Surely "a prophet is not without honor save in his own 
country. u 
HOTS 1048 - POLYPORUS AMYGDALIHUS ADD POLYPORUS AUSTRALIEHSIS.- 
COLOR CHANGES. On our last visit to Hew York we noticed a specimen 
from Dr. Burke, Alabama, with white context and pore tissue when 
broken. It impressed us for we remembered a specimen that Dr. Burke 
had sent us with salmon context and white pore tissue and we had com¬ 
mented on it (Letter 60, Hote 331). When we compare our specimen now 
from Dr. Burke we find both context and pore tissue pink. It has 
surely changed since we received it. We received the same plant from 
J. Umemura, Japan, and wrote (Letter 63, Hote 495 and Letter 67, 
Hote 690) concerning the color. Mr, Umemura advised me his plant when 
young is "beautifully orange". Wh.en I received it the color of the 
pores and context was pale pink and as I vie?/ it now it is white with 
faintly pink cast. We have noted several times a remarkable plant 
received from Australia.Polypor us australiensis. (Cfr, Letter 58, 
Hote 270, Letter 66, Hote 609). This has the same general (and 
unusual) nature as Polyporus amygdalinus. The soft spongy flesh is 
orange and fades out to white on the cut surface. The pores are 
dark and on my specimens have not become light. The plant is large, 
obes§, several inches thick. While these two species are not the 
same they are intimately related, much more closely than had occurred 
to me before. Polyporus persicinus, principally remembered from the 
bulls that Berkeley and Mnrrill made in connection with it, is prob¬ 
ably the same as amygdalinus. 
HOTE 1049 - AHTHROCOPHLOUS RHIZOPQGOHOIDESWe are in 
receipt of a long article from Professor Mattirolo concerning the above 
plant, and we would gladly publish it if it did not take up so much 
space. In substance it is a mild protest against the change of name 
of this plant which C. W. Dodge found so labeled in our museum and 
published with a different specific name as a Rhizopogon. While this 
was a breach of ethics on the part of Mr. Dodge, I am perhaps to 
blame for it. I well remember a conversation I had with Mr. Dodge 
with reference to Rhizopogons that I had named in manuscript in my 
collection. I told him to pay no attention to them as I did not 
know enough of the subject to give my mss, names any claim to recogni¬ 
tion, and I did not care anything about it anyway. However, I was not 
speaking for Professor Mattirolo, but I had no intimatjon that Mr. 
Dodge expected to publish on the foreign species which he had so little 
opportunity of knowing. 
Mr. C. W. Dodge and Mr. S. M. Zeller who were associated in 
the article in question, are young men, graduates under Professor Burt, 
