MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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"grey with darker zones ", The color of the dried plant with a faint 
greenish cast was associated by us ’with only two species, Hydnum 
Blackfordae and Hydnum geoginum. It can be neither of these, 
HYDNUM FERKEU3 FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig.1830).- This 
was sent to me in slices and it is of different texture from the 
fleshy Hydnums of temperate regions, 1 thought it would soak up 
gelatinous but it did not. The color of the dried plant and spines 
is that of iron rust, but the collection notes are "yellowish, salmon 
above, dirty cream below." It evidently changed in drying, Pileus 
mesopodial as shown in our fjgure, which however, is of a slice' 
pressed flat. Spores are globose, 4 mic., hyaline and appear minutely 
rough. Easiaia I do not make out. I am satisfied it is not a Euro¬ 
pean species nor does it agree with any of the few foreign species I 
have noted in the museums. It grew on ground in the Garden jungle 
and was collected (183) by Ethel M, Burkill. I hope to receive addi¬ 
tional specimens, not sliced, and notes on its texture when, fresh. 
Also microscopical notes on the fresh basidia would be of interest for 
it may not have clavate basidia. 
HEXAGONA ANGULATA FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig, 1831).- 
Pileus thin, rigid, smooth, unicolorous, buffy brown of Ridgway. Con¬ 
text thin, same color. Pores rigid, shallow, angular, concolorous, 
arranged in lines and with walls prolonged in points, rough to touch. 
Setae none. While this belongs to the section Tenuis, it presents a 
type of pore not known to me in any other species. 
POLYPORUS ATER FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig, 1832 ),- 
Stipitate with a lateral, black stipe. Surface rugulose, dull, black. 
Context pale grey with fuliginous tint. Pores minute, black (when 
dry) but collector's note is - "Pores, surface white." No basidia, 
cystidia or spores found. 
We would enter this in Section 10 (Lignosus). It is the 
first really black Polyporus I ever noted excepting Polyporus Preussii 
which Hennings named from Africa (Cfr. Stip. Polyporoids, page 124). 
Although Polyporus Preussii has a mesopodial stipe the general des¬ 
cription is similar to this, and we would be disposed to so refer it 
but we have a little piece of the original and a comparison shows they 
are not the same. 
POLYPORUS ELEGANS FROM PROF. L. K. PENNINGTON, NEW YORK (Fig, 
1833 ).- The old time mycologists who took themselves seriously and 
thought Nature cast species in molds, are as extinct as the dodo. For 
one of these old fellows this would be a "new species," surely. The 
surface of this collection has thorn-like protuberances but why I do 
not know. I have over a hundred collections that do not have them 
and where the surface is as smooth as a pane of glass. In this 
connection - Is Polyporus elegans detersive-velutinate when young 
and growing?:' I do not know that it is always so but I do know that 
the only time I ever found it young and growing it was velutinate (Fig. 
1834) and when dried it was as glabrous as a billiard ball. We pre¬ 
sent also (Fig. 1835) the usual dried specimen as it comes to me 
generally. Polyporus varius, common in Europe, very rare with us is 
the same plant as Polyporus elegans, excepting size. Size is usually 
