MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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POLYSTICTUS 3YRSINUS FROM JOHN G0SSWE1LBR, AFRICA ( Fig.1816).- 
We prepared a cut of .the plant, thinking at first we would be under 
the necessity of naming it. We have never noted it before excepting 
in the American tropics, but on comparison we find the African plant 
exactly the same. The features of the species are the light, puffed 
context and the very minute, punctate pores. Our figure 1816 will 
give a good idea of the plant and Fig. 1817 of the pores enlarged 
sixf old., 
LENTINOID FAVOLUS BRASILIENSIS FROM S. RAPP, FLORIDA (Fig. 
1819 ).— Our first impression when we saw this collection was that 
it was a Lentinus, but we have no smooth, white Lentinus. When I came 
to consider it closely it is certainly only a lentinoid form of our 
southern white Favolus Erasiliensis. If you will compare with the 
normal form our figure given in Pol. Issue, p. 20, the identity will 
be evident. Beginners might have trouble to realize the identity of 
such hymenial variations but familiarity with species brings one to 
recognize these unusual forms. We present, Fig. 1818 the normal form 
and in contrast Fig. 181S the lentinoid form from Mr. Rapp. Favolus 
is intermediate between the Polypores and the agarics, but it is rare 
that specimens take these decided agaric forms. 
SARCOXYLON ATJRANTIA CUM FROM PROF. T. FETCH, CEYLON (Fig. 1820) 
While we know this only by what was published, we do not doubt it 
but think it was not happily named. The color of the dried specimen 
is reddish brown (auburn, Ridgway ) and to our eye it is not orange 
at all. However, it was described as aurantiacus, red, orange or 
ochraceous and from the description had as many shades of color as a 
chameleon. When soaked up it is about the color of Polyporus lucidus. 
Prof. Fetch advises me this is the plant on which Berkeley's record 
of Sarcoxylon compunctum was based. It is surely a very different 
plant from our idea of Sarcoxylon compunctum (Cfr, Lge, Pyrenomycetes 
p. 28, fig. 1453, ) The "genera" Sarcoxylon, Claziella, Penzigia, are 
in a bad mess and until the originals are hunted up and learned the 
least said about them the better for they are apt to be wrong. The 
context is fleshy orange yellow when soaked but it dries hard. The 
surface of the dried slant is convolute, lobed, but when soaked is 
more even as shown in our photograph. None of these specimens are 
"hollow" as orgginaily figured, although the flesh splits in drying. 
This is the third species of Sarcoxylon to reach us and we are net 
at all sure that we have their history straight., 
POLYSTICTUS LUTEO-AFFINIS FROM JOHN GOSSWEILER, AFRICA (Fig. 
1821 ).- Intermediate plants of the section Microporus are hard to 
name and this is just between luteus and affinis. It has the thick, 
pale pileus and short stem of luteus but the stem is black as in 
affinis. In addition to the yellow stem luteus is usually a thicker 
plant than affinis. 
POLYSTICTUS BICOLOR FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig. 1322 ).- 
Small, about a cm., growing broadly, attached to the host and develop¬ 
ing a little, conehate pileus. Texture soft. Context white. Surface 
smooth, brown, contrasting with the white context. Pores small, de¬ 
current, pale yellowish. Cystidia none. Spores minute, globose, 2 
mic. but may be only conidial spores. 
