MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
Polystictus aculeifer. 
G. G. LLOYD 
Pago 998 
POLYSTICTUS ACULEIFER FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig. 1805). 
I can not say surely For no pores are developed but I believe on com¬ 
parison it is a young specimen. If so, it is the first time it has 
been collected outside the American tropics. At first it appears to 
be a Hydnum but I am confident if its development is watched it will 
be found to develop pores. An account and poor figure was given in 
Myc. Notes, No.61, P.877, Fig.1498. We present in our Fig. 1804 an 
enlargement of Polystictus aculeifep showing its large, flaccid pores 
and peculiar conidial bearing hairs. This enlargement was made from 
a specimen from Rev, Rich, Brazil, Polystictus aculeifer is not 
surely known excepting in the American tropics but we believe we have 
young specimens from Malay and from the Philippines, 
POLYSTICTUS HYPOTHEJUS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig.1806) 
This, named from Australia, is quite close, practically the same as 
Polystictus expansus, and both are too close to P, pinsitus of the 
American tropics. Polystictus hypothejus differs from P. expansus 
(Cfr, Myc. Notes p. 941, fig. 1738) a thicker plant, the pores reddish 
as shown in Kalchbrenner’s figure. We have refused to use the name 
before, but we need a name for this collection. 
TRAMETES TRICOLOR FROM PROFESSOR A. YASUDA, JAPAN (Fig,1807 ).- 
For me the trametoid form of Lenzites tricolor but the first col¬ 
lection I have seen. Same texture, thickness and color. In this con¬ 
nection, it is curious that Lenzites tricolor of Europe occurs in 
Japan, but not as far as known in the United States. The name does 
not impress us as having much application for the dried plant at least 
is quite uniform in color, deep reddish brown. 
POLYSTICTUS ACULEANS FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig. 1808 ).- 
One may hunt the museums of Europe over and find but one collection 
of this most peculiar species which came from Brazil ( Spruce ) and was 
named by Berkeley in 1856. It can not be mistaken from our figure 
which was made from the type at Kew. Saccardo referred here a plant 
as a variety, from Malay, which I have not seen but from the descrip¬ 
tion in my opinion can not even be a variety of this. 
Polystictus aculeans has a peculiar surface, zonate and 
covered with appressed, coarse fibrils, not well designated originally 
as "aculei 1 '. The context is deep brown. Pores minute with concolor— 
ous tissue but white mouths. Spores I do not find. It is quite 
close to Polystictus caperatus. Is it not strange, illustrating the 
sporadic occurrence of fungus species, this plant which was found in 
Brazil sixty-five years ago was re-collected for the first time by Mr, 
Chipp in Malay only last year. 
POLYPORUS ANEBUS FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE.- This species, 
frequent in the Eastern tropics, varies as to thickness and color of 
context from yellow to brown, according to age of specimens it appears 
to me. The collection notes are "upper surface chestnut-brown. Pores 
smoky grey." A very thin, proliferous form (Fig.1809) was among the 
first foreign fungi named by Persoon and figured (1826) in Gaudichaud's 
Voyage. The type is still preserved at Paris, Persoon called it 
Polyporus serpens, which as Fries did not compile neither did Saccardo 
