mycological notes 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1017 
NOTE 954 - POLYPORUS BRUNEOLUS PROM E. D. MERRILL, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: We take this name in the sense of our Note 572, Letter 65, 
but it is in this sense only a color form of Polyporus rubidus. It 
is only partially historically correct, for the original in the 
British Museum is the same as Polystictus murinus according to des¬ 
cription and our notes. But we have always had an impression, gained 
at Kew, that Polyporus bruneolus was close to Polyporus rubidus as 
considered m our Stipitate Polyporoids which was written at Kew. 
And while it has been several years since we have seen them and they' 
are very old collections we are confident that this is the Berkeley 
sense of Polyporus bruneolus at Kew. Polyporus rubidus, as it 
frequently occurs, not only in the Philippines but Java, Ceylon, 
Malay, Japan, is a unicolorous plant of a beautiful old rose color 
(jasper pink, Ridgway ) if varying in color the surface is lighter. 
Polyporus bruneolus in the sense we take it is Polyporus rubidus 
exactly the same context color, but with the surface Mikado brown to 
my eye. It is only a color form and probably does not merit a 
separate name, 
NOTE 955 - POLYPORUS COCHLEARIFORMIS FROM S. D. MERRILL, 
PHILIPPINES: This species (Cfr. Stip, Polyporoids, p. 139) was 
hitherto only known from one collection from Malay. Two collections 
have been made in the Philippines. Ramos 7589 and Ramos 32123. 
NOTE 956 - POLYPORUS 0B0YATUS FROM E. D, MERRILL, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: A question we puzzled over in the old collections in the 
museums of Europe was - Is obovatus of the East and mutabilis of 
American tropics the same or not? We know both now from recent 
collections and on comparison we think they are practically the same. 
Murrill had a glimpse of the truth but he lost it when he messed it 
up by referring it to Polyporus dealbatus which has no suggestion or 
resemblance to either. 
NOTE 957 - POLYPORUS VIRGATUS FROM E. D. MERRILL, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: This was named from Cuba and at the time our pamphlet was 
published we had. not recognized it otherwise. But it develops that 
it occurs in the Eastern tropics and this is the second we have from 
the Philippines, The other (10063) was misreferred to Polyporus 
versiformis. Polyporus virgatus has a black stem (which is not always 
evident;), ,aatL should be moved from Section 45 to Section 49. Poly¬ 
porus subvirgatus and Polyporus rubro-castaneus of our pamphlet we 
believe now are both the same plant. We have specimens from Cuba, 
Brazil, Malay, India, Philippines, Java and Australia. 
NOTE 958 - PORONIA PILE1F0RMIS FROM E, D, MERRILL, PHILIP¬ 
PINES: This is the first collection that has been mad3 of this species 
since it was originally collected in the Philippines by Cumings, 
eighty years ago. We considered and figured it Myc. Notes p. 938, 
fig, 1721. To the eye it is the same as Poronia macrorhiza, but the 
spores 4X8 are much smaller. We are glad of the specimen from the 
"type locality" and to be able to confirm Currey's record of the 
spores. We wrote to Miss Wakefield for a confirmation of the original 
spore measurement at Kew, but she was not able to find spores in the 
type. As Poronia pileiformis and Poronia macrohiza are the same ex¬ 
cepting the spores, we are glad to have the difference established. 
