MYCOLOGICAL MOTES 
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G. LLOYD 
Page 1000 
this out I thought it was a diminutive specimen of a diminutive 
species, Polyporus pusillus, as named by Persoon or Polypcrus rhi- 
pidium as always known to Berkeley. "When I sectioned it I found it 
was a true Laschia with homogeneous, gelatinous context. The common 
little Polyporus pusillus was considered in detail in our Polyporoid 
Issue Mo.2, page 22, fig. 260E. It is very similar to this plant but 
a section shows the context (fleshy) of large hyphae, 5-6 mic. in 
diameter, not the slender (1—l'-J-) hyphae of a gelatinous tissue. 
Minute, growing on bark. Stipe lateral, reddish, 1-1-J- mm. long. Sur¬ 
face smooth, reddish. Context white, gelatinous with slender, homo¬ 
geneous hyphae. Pores minute, round. A section shows the hymenium 
darker than the tissue. Spores subglobose, hyaline, smooth, 3-§-4 mic. 
This has neither color glands nor cristated cells found in 
most species of Laschia and is the second that has reached me so 
characterized (Cfr. Laschia Chippii, page 908, fig. 1606). 
LENZITES BECKLERI FROM DR. J. B. CLELAMD, AUSTRALIA (Fig. 
1814 ).- In the last book he published Fries defines Lentinus as 
having "gills membranaceous, lacerate-dentate" and Lenzites with 
"gills coriaceous ’with acute edges", but here we have a Lenzites with 
dentate gills and Dr. Cleland sends another specimen of the same 
collection with even gills. Our definitions and ideas of genera 
must all be elastic and subject to correction as we get more light 
on them. Fries’ last definition of Lentinus, however, does not 
cover the greater part of the tropical species classed as Lentinus, 
including quite a number that were named by himself. 
We are getting different collections of Lenzites Beckleri 
from Australia now until the species is beginning to clear up. The 
essentials are a rough, uneven surface, glabrous but not smooth, 
white context, yellowish, distant gills. The gills are usually even 
as shown in our figure, page 805, but the specimen we now figure has 
dentate gills. 
The early American namers applied a dozen different names 
to Daedalea confragosa but everyone is in accord now that they are 
all one species. The early namers (mostly Berkeley and Leveille ) 
named Daedalea flavida of the East twenty-three different names in 
six different genera, all the same species in my opinion. Lenzites 
Beckleri is not rare in Australia. We can see now that what- we refer¬ 
red to Lenzites ungulaeformis (Myc, Motes Mo.56, p.811, fig, 1265 ) 
is the same thing. Also we suspect that what we recently called 
Lenzites albolutea, from Java (p. 879 fig. 1502) is not specifically 
different, notwithstanding its vast hymenial difference. 
POLYSTICTUS SUB0CCIDEMTALIS FROM S. R. BOSE, INDIA (Fig. 1815 
with no suggestion of Polystictus occidentalism Masses published a 
Polystictus from India as Polystictus albidus which as to description 
is the plant (excepting a few discrepancies. ) I have a note - "no 
tyoe found", also another note - "equals Trametes cingulata" so I 
may have found it. As Polystictus albidus was a duplicate Saccardo 
changed it to Polystictus suboccidentalis which was an unwise thing 
to do on the face of it. Mo plant with white context is any "sub" 
of occidentalis. While the matter is very doubtful, we so labol the 
specimens for the name is as good as many in use and as bad as could 
be suggested. It goes in Section 105. 
