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Polyporus sacer natural size and Fig. 1900 pores of Polyporus rhin- 
ocerotis, natural size. 
POLYPORUS SUPERNIGER PROM E. D. MERRILL PHILIPPINES 
(Pig. 1902).- Dimidiate, effused with reflected pileus an inch broad. 
Surface with a thin, black, glabrous crust, uneven with raised zones. 
Context rigid, firm, brown. Pores minute with brown tissue darker 
than the context. Mouths dark in dried specimens but probably con- 
colorous when fresh. Setae none. Spores small, hyaline, 2 l/2. X 3 
smooth. 
This was collected Basillan Island, 36016, by H. S. Yates. 
It belongs in Section 95, The black crust and brown context suggests 
the section Apus Ganodermus but the spores forbid. 
POLYSTICTUS RADIUS PROM T. P. CKIPP, SINGAPORE.- In the 
Philippines, the "type locality” Trametes badius as named by Berkeley 
varies much in thickness. We get around that by calling the thin 
collection Polystictus badius and the thick ones Trametes badia. 
This collection from Malay is thin and differs from the Philippine 
form in smaller pores. It could be called "var, microporus". 
POLYSTICTUS AL30BADIU3 AS VARIETY OP POLYSTICTUS BADIUS, 
from T. P. Chipp, Singapore (Fig. 1903).- In the main, size, color, 
thickness, surface, this is exactly the same as Polystictus badius 
in its thin, Philippine form, but this has very minute pores not half 
as broad as the type and in addition the pore mouths are white and 
the pore mouths of the usual plant are never white. We have now six¬ 
teen collections of Polystictus badius, and not a specimen among them 
but has brown ( concclorcus ) pore mouths. 
THE LACCATE CRUST OP POLYPORUS LUCIDUS (Pig. 1904).- We 
have never observed Polyporus lucidus as it develops but from spec¬ 
imens we receive it appears that the laccate crust is an exudation, 
perhaps not found on the very young specimens. We present a figure 
of two of the same collection, one of them well lacquered, the other 
with hardly a trace. In this connection Polyporus Curtisii is the- 
same plant as Polyporus lucidus excepting that the thin, laccate 
deposit gives it a different color and appearance. Usually it is 
more or less yellow but we have one collection that is full .grown 
but with no deposit at all and as white as snow when we received it. 
We would deduce that the hot climate retarded the laccate exudation, 
were it not for the fact that forms of Polyporus lucidus and related 
species of the tropics are often more strongly laccate than our tem¬ 
perate region plant. 
CYCLOMYCOID POLYSTICTUS CICHORIACEUS FROM T. P. CHIPP, SING¬ 
APORE, (Pig. 1905 ).- The cyclomycoid arrangement of the pores as 
shown in our enlargement, v Pig, 3906 ) is evidence that the collection 
is intermediate between Polystictus cichoriaceus and Cyclorcyces fuseus. 
All the ppres do not show such a disposition. In nature there is no 
such thing as a species. 
