MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
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Polystictus versicolor is zoned* Otherwise they are practically the 
same. This collection, however, is of a darker color than typical 
zGnatus. 
HILL, H. H., NEWZEALAND: Polystictus oblectans. 
INGHAM, WM., ENGLAND: Lycogala Eoidendrum - Hypholoma fas- 
ciculare ? 
JOHNSTON, I. M., COLORADO: Trametes hispida - Trametes oro- 
tracta - Fomes igniarius - Tubercularia vulgaris - Poria callosa — 
Trametes piceina - Catastoma circumscissum - Calvatia caelata - 
Trametes heteromorpha - Polystictus abietinus - Polystictus subchar- 
taceus - Auricularia auricula-Judae - Dacryomyces aurantia - Polypor- 
us arcularius - Lycoperdon gemmatum - HYDNOFOMES TINCTORIUS - Trametes 
serialis - Fomes roseus (rare). 
JOHNSTON, I. M., WESTERN MOHAVE DESERT: Gyrophragmium 
Deli lei - Chlamydopus Meyenianus - POLYPORUS LEUCOSPONGIA - FOMES 
ARCTOSTAPHYLI. 
NOTE 945 - FOMES ARCTOSTAPHYLI FROM I. M. JOHNSTON, MOHAVE 
DESERT: in structure it is the same in the essentials, context color, 
hyaline, subglobose spores as Fomes igniarius and we take it for a 
diminutive form. Its peculiar habitat, growing on shrubs, and its 
small size entitle it to a name, however. Mr. Long found it on 
Arctostaphylos in Arizona and Mr* Johnston on Adenostoma fasciculata, 
"a common chaparral shrub” of southern California* It is quite close, 
perhaps the same as Fomes pusilla of Japan, but considerably larger. 
NOTE 948 - HYDNOFOMES TINCTORIUS FROM I. M. JOHNSTON, COLO¬ 
RADO: ''Growing on living Abies, always on main trunk, on lower axis 
formed by a dead branch. ” Q,uite common in the northwest Oregon up 
to Alaska but this is the first record I have noted from Colorado, 
It has had a most amusing experience getting named. The original 
collection made in Alaska was sent to Ellis by Mr. Coville of the 
Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Coville told me it was ground and 
used as a paint by the Indians. The teeth were broken off, and Ellis 
evidently sent it to Cooke who referred it to Fomes lateritius, a 
species he had named from the American tropics, and to which the 
plant has as much resemblance as a porcupine has to a honey comb. The 
specimen is in the British Museum (Cfr. Letter No.52. ) Then Ellis 
was not satisfied with this and published it as Fomes tinctorius, a 
"new species.” Neither Ellis nor Cooke paid enough attention to it 
to note the plant did not have pores, though if either had called an 
alligator a serpent without noting it had legs it would not have been 
a worse bull. Next, I received the plant abundantly from C. V. Piper, 
Washington, and sent it to Ellis. He saw the spines on these and 
changed his name from Fomes ( sic ) tinctorius to Echinodontius tine- 
tori urn. Echinodontium means "spiny teeth”, not a very good name for 
teeth that have no spines. It is true there are cystidia but they 
are not spines. Then Hennings got it from Japan, and that collection 
now at Berlin, is the only one known from Japan to this day. Hennings 
was as innocent of any knowledge of its history as a newborn babe and 
he proposed to call it Hydnofomes, a quite appropriate name, con- 
