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,'~In_my, printed letter I do not give authorities for namesj believing,'that ,. :;':":".' 

~!;binomial should represent a plant· name, but in ackn~wledging the 

~tlmens to my correspondents; V-give: the tlauthority~'" in".event _they.,.,., 

'_sir~to use the same; 'All spechrensare acknowledged)yp"ers;onal,letter 

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"f' . Hydnum compactum; (see Note 84).-Polystictus versicolor,-Polyporus ,,,:\:}:~::S7. 

cidus.-Hydnum velutinurn.-Stereum bicolor ...:......Thelephoraradiata.-Xy_,'>:/,/':~(;~;;'''-i 

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eniu;';:is sa'·different:·, A very p';lymorphic species ai,o:hymenium,'shape, , '~, 

:Lepiota 'Aliena.:'" Cotype.-"-Cyathus stercoreus,-Stereum'::spadiceum._:::: ."" ;iG; 

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LACKFORD, MRS, E, B,. Massachusetts:"' ... 

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BRACE, L. J. IC., Bahamas: 

Tl'al~etes h~'dnoides, effete. 

BRANDEGEE, T. S., California: 

Tylostoma campest!is. (Sand hills near San Francisco.) 

BROWN, GEORGE, New Zealand: 

Geaster limbatus.-Stephensia bombycina (or close). Determined by 

Miss Wakefield.-Plcurotus (species). 

BROWN, GEORGE, Pitcairn Island: 

Schizqphyllum commune, stalked form.-Claval'ia persimilis.-Clavaria 

I:lizzozeriana (pro:.;::.).. 

The Clavarias determined by A. D. Cotton. 

CAMPBELL, MISS E., New South Wales: 

Polystictus sanguineus.-Polystictus versicolor.-Polystictus hil'sutuS.- 

Stereum hirsutum.-Polysaccum pisocarpium.-Fomes leucophaeus, undeveloped. 

Lentiul1s fasciatus. This species is known only from Australia. It is 

a beautiful plant.-Polystictus liIacino-giIvns.-Trametes lactinea. 

Polystictus-:-Trametes. That I can not place .. The specimens from Miss 

Campbell were nicely sele

DUNCAN, S., New Zealand: 

Daedalea glabrescens.-polystictus iodinus.--Geaster saccatus._Dal_ 

dinia concentrica.-polystictus cinnabarinus.-Calvatia lilacina. Sterile 

Fomes fraxilleu:;;? This is undeveloped; but has the same context as 

fraxineus of Europe.-Fomes australis. 

DUPONT, E., Reunion: 

Daldinia concentrka. A Ia~ge specimen over two inches in diameter. 

DUTHIE, A. V., South Africa: 

PolYPorns Oerstedii. This is the: same as Polyporus lucid us in every 

respect excep~sence of a stipe.-Stereum hirsutum.-Thelephora terrestris 

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Polystictus (Sp.) that I do not know as to species although I have 

received neady the same plattt from Norf!t'U..'{!stCafu.:da (!!) .-Stel'eum }obatum. 

Arachnion album. One of the rarest :lnd most curious of puff balls . 

.(Cfr. Myc. Notes, page 253.)-Scleroderma flavidum.-Merulius laclu"Ymans._ 

Trametes hispida.-Sc!eroderma· verrucosum . 

. Tylostoma cyclophorum. A species originally received from Miss Stone_ 

man, South'Africa .. (Cfr. Monograph, page'25, plate 85). 

Fornes (Ganodennus) applanatus, form with a hard, sulcate crust and 

substipitate. The sorting of these exotic forms of Fomes applanatus is a 

most puzzling pl'oblem.-polyporus·. sulphureus.-Lenzites repanda . 

. Podaxon carcinomalis. This was one of the first species of Podaxon 

.to. reach Europe, having been sent in by one of Linnaeus' students from 

South Africa. It grows often on ant hills, and in olden days had a repu_ 

tation among the natives as a CUTefor, ulcer~. 

FAWCETT, H. S., California: 

.Fomesrobustus, on Eucalyptus. ,;This' species, on Oak in Europe, is 

rare in the United States and is found only in our western States as far 

as I· know.-D'hldinia concentrica._Fomes· app~anatlls. 

GARMAN, H., Kentucky:'- , . 

Peziza 'or other Disconlycetes. Supposed to have· -callsed sickness in a 

'"child,--but pl;"obablJ"an error. 

GARNER, 'V. G., New Zealand: 

Aseroe Hookeri.--Pseudocolus Archeri. (See Note 86.) 

GILLET, REV. J.,S. J.,·Africa: ... 

Epichloe Schumanniana. Determined by-A. D. Cotton. 

HADLEY, ALICE M., Vel'mont: 

Polyporus squammosus. 

-HANMER,C. ~C., :Connecticut: 

Calvatia rubroflava.---:'Geaster rufescens. 

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HARlOT, P., from Henri Perrier de la BaUde, Madagascar: 

Ganodermus mangiferae. This species was not, but should have been, 

included in my Stipitate Polyporoids. It is quite close to mastoporus and 

may be the same thing. The only difference I can note is that the pore 

mouths are pale, while they are always dark in mastopol'US, even when 

young. 

Fames austl'alis with )'rl101.u pore mouths.--Polypol'us pruinatus.-Polystictus 

gallo-pavonius.-Polystictus caperatus.-Daedalea quercina. 

Trametes roseolus. A beautiful spedescompared with the type at 

Paris. It is said to be same as Polypol'uS Afzelius, of which no type exists. 

-Fornes Haskal'lii.-Fomes pectinatus.-Polypol'us (Glaeoporus) can.didus, 

_a white form of conchoides.-Polystictus gallo-ravonius, (pale form);- 

Hexagona tenuis.-'Pomes lignosu:l (annual). 

Polyporus megaloporus. When young it is a Polyporus, when old' 

tends towards Fa\rolu~. Setae are vcry peculiar {dr. Stipitate Polyporaids, 

fig. 441).-Polyporus durus.-F.omes applanatus.-Polyporus mode-stus. 

Compared, and same as the "cotype" of "atypus" at Paris= 

bl'uneolus of Montagne not Bedceley.:"'-Polystictus versatilis. 

Pol~rporus anaebus. Compared with cotypes in Montagne's herbarium. 

It is smoothel' but for me the same species as pl'uinatus.-Fomes pullns. 

Compared with type in Montagne's herbarium.: A unique little species. 

Setae -_none. Spores not f?und, no doubt white. 

ROLDEN, ."\Vl\L, North Carolina: 

Polypol'uS .saligmis?-Ustulina vulgaris; conidial form.-Polyporus arcularius,-Polypol'us 

amorphus.-Poh-'stictus sal1guineus.-Polystictus pergamenus 

..---:-Polyporus gilvus.-Lentinus stl'igosus.-Polystictus hil'sutus.- 

Lenzites betulina.-Polyporus adustus.-Stereum fasciatum.-Tremellodendl~on 

pallida.=---Fomes annosus.-Fomes renifol'mis.-Polyporus giganteus. 

Scleroderma Geaster. A liberal ·collection,. tinopened.--:-Fistulina hepatica.-Polyporus 

Schweinitzii.':-Favolus europaeus.-Polystictus _vel'sicoIQl'.-Bulgaria·. 

inquinans.-Clavaria botrytes.-Folyporlls sulphureus. 

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LEEUWEN, DR. VAN, Java: 

Dichonema sedcel.lm. Named by Monsieur Hal'iot. -;It is in Saccardo 

as a,' Rhipidqnema, hut is a lichen.-Polystictus xanthopus.-Nummularii 

(sp.).-Poly'porus fumosl.ls'? 'Seems a little different from the European 

plant. 

. Fornes (Ganodel·mus). Quite close to Fornes leucophaeus. but I am 

satisfied that it is different. It is heavier, hal'der, more minute pores, and 

has a-'tendency to form a stipe. 'Spores are smaller; 6 x 8.. I have an ample 

collection of same species frQmDr. J. C. Koni?'gsbe~'ger, Java. 

LIND, J,,_ Denmark: 

Daedalea confragosa (form BuUiardi) .-P~lystictus. versicolor. 

MACOUN, JOHN, Canada: 

I-Iymenochaete spreta.-Stereum (Hymenochaete) tabacinum.--Polyporus 

adustus.-Polystictus hirsutlls.-Lenzites saepiaria.-Polystictus versicolor 

tending to zonatus.-Polysti~tus zonatus if different from versicolor.- 

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D~cryomyces aUl'antia.-Crucibulum vulgare Xylai·ia Hypoxylon, (efr. 

Letter 45, Note 66).-Corticum, (cfr. amorphum). 

r _".Also a number of specimens of Poria, Hypoxylon, Corticum, etc., genera 

~fwhich I do not kno\v~Hij'·,species. 

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MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDENS, Australia: 

,\.~..: Polystictus sanguineus . 

. Polyporus (Amaurodermus) rudis. (Compare Stipitate Polyporoids, page 

-'111, fig. 403.) A rather frequent J3pecies in 'Australia and too close to 

'Polyporus rugosus of the East.-G€aster saccatus. This is the form with a 

efi~mer'exoperidium, named Geaster coriaceus by Colenso, from New Zealand. 

',MEMMINGER, ED. R., North Carolin:\: 

-, Myriostoma coliforme.-Geaster pectinatus.-Irpex pachydon.-Polyus 

arcularius; 

Cordyceps capitata. These specimens are not "capitate" as are all 

specimens I have seen in Europe of this species. They are same form as 

Cordyceps ophioglossoides of Europe. The distinction between these two 

;·species is a marked spore difference as shown by Tulasne. There is also 

,:adifference in the method by which they are attached to the host.-Geaster 

::floriformis .. 

:,SMERRILL, E. D., Philippines: 

I- have been favored with an ample collection of Philippine specimens 

through the courtesy of Mr. E. D.l\Ierrill, Botanist of the Bureau 'of Science, 

'_'Manila, Philippines. These specimens wet'e mostly named by Rev. ·Bl'esa.;. 

:'dola, and as I consider Rev. Bresadola the onl'y mrcolcgist in Europe who 

has made a critical and historical 

'are mostly labeled in my museum 

study of foreign fungi, the specimens 

under the names as received. In Borne 

,,_, instances I do not adopt the names, but these are mostly cases of difference 

;;:'ofopinion due to variation. In some cases the difference comes from ques- 

£:tio11sof "pl'iority," for the hapha'zard way in which the same species have 

~':~:~beengiven names by the old botanists leads to -much aoubt about "who saw 

/:.:it first?"- and in some instances' the man "who saw it first" did not know 

;':;:~~ough about it to name it decen,tly. This is particularly true in -the line 

..': of ,the bungling work Of Leveille. A fe"\' cases of discrepancy rest oil the 

,llauthenticity" of "types." Thus there is doubt about most of Leveille's 

:,: 'types at Leiden for they were not labeled, and at Paris, where he did label 

,~j,:i:thespecimens, the tlcotypes" are not always the same species as the IItypes" 

j(;at Leiden, I list the plants as I have labeled them in my museum, and have 

-;.indicated in parenthesis the nan-les under which they were received. The 

nuinbel's indicate the [lUmber of collections. In addition there are about 

,twenty ~ollectiol1s (not listed) which I have not yet found time to work with. 

, Phlebia strigoso-zonata, (2), (retlexa).-Calvatia lilacina, (l).-Daldinia 

concentrica, (l).-Polystictus flavus, (1) (Irpex).-Auricularia meseuterica, 

(2).-Hirneola auricula-Juclaef {l ).-Hirneola polytl'i.cha, (2), 

(ampla).-Polystidus affinisval'. li1elanopilus,J2)f (for me a pale form.)- 

. Polystictus flabelliformis, (2), (flahelliformis, l~teus) .-Polystict1.1S affi.;1is, 

(9), (luteus,pterygodes, nepholodes) .-Polystictl.ls xanthopus, (4) .-Poly- 

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stictus carneo-niger, (3L (micl'oloma, celebicus).-Po!ystictus luteus, (2), 

(cl'enatus, but entirely difl'erent).--Stereul11 involutull1, (1). Very doubtful 

to me. 

Stereum lobatllm, (5), (bicolor evidently error of enclosure, f. concolal', 

ostrea).-Stel'eum tenuissimum, (1), (attenuata) .-Polystictus cichoriaceus, 

(1), (Hexagonu tahacinllm).-Hexagona l'esinosus, (1).---;--Polystictus Persoonii, 

(6), (corrugatus) .-Daedalea confmgosa, (1) .-Trametes gibbosa, 

(2).-Col'ticium caeruleum, (l).-Septobasidium bogol'iense, (l).-Polystictus 

cervino-gilvus, (3), (dermatodes).-Hexagona tenuis, (8), (bivalvis, 

pulchella).-Hexag-ona Deschampsii, (1).-Hexagona apial'ia, (3), 

(Wrightii). 

Lenzites ochroleuca (cfr. Hexagona pamphlet, page 31), (13), (Daedalea 

tenuis, Daed. subconfragoEa, Daed. pruinosa, Daed. lenzites, Dae-d. 

flavida).-Trametes ochl'oleucus, (2). Tl'ametes form of previous. (Hex. 

agona glabra, Daedalea Hobsoni).-Lenzites repanda, (8), (Palisoti, indica). 

Polyporus (Ganodermus) ochrolaccatus, (2). This is a marked and, l'are 

species (cfr. Stip. Polyp., page 105. All specimens [ have noted in the 

various museums of Europe are the original collection from the Philippines 

by Cummings, made many years· ago . 

.Cnntharellus bL~cC'('.inalis,(i.), (partHus).-Lentinus praerigidus, (1), 

(Kunzianus).-Lentinus sajor caju, (3).-Xerotus nigrita, (1), (AnthracophyHumL-Lentirms 

connatu~, (2), (exilis).-Polyporus semilaccatus, (4).- 

Lentinus stl'igosus, (1); (Panus rlldis). 

Fomes aush'alis. The tropical forms of FomE's applanatus have in the 

pa.st been usually referred to Fomes aush'aiis. Numerous specific names 

have· 'been proposed, but 'whether it is practicable to definitely ·separate 

them is a doubtful problem. Some day we hope to make a trial of the many 

specimens ·that have acccumulated" in our museum. In the meanwhile we 

label them aU as above. (9). (subtornatllm, australe, applanatus.) 

Polyporus sulphureus. (2). (One as Po!yporus 'miniatus, dr. ·Stip. 

Polyp., p. 154.)-Polyporus grammocephalus, (2).-Fomes melanoporus~ (4). 

-Fomes pinicola, (4), (ungulatlls).--Fomes Kermes, (1), (Fome·s albomarginatus, 

efr. Letter 36).-Polyporus zonalis, (2).-Lenzites -subferruginea, 

(4).-Lenzites nivea, (2), (platyphylla).-Lenzites betulina, form? 

(l).-':"'Polyi)Ol'USdurus,(2).-.Pol}~stictu~ tabacinlls, (3.L (microcyclus). 

Polystictus benquetensis, (lL very poor specimen. It is quite close 

to circinatlls.-Polystictus occidentalis, (2) .-Polystictus obstinatus, (3), 

(Meyeni) .--Polyporus rubidus, (3). 

Polyporus -Didl'ichsenii, (2). Received as atypus Leveille, no type of 

which exists (efr. Letter -No. 36L and the specimen so labeled by Leveille 

at Paris is not this plant. There is acotype of Polyporus Didrichensii at 

Kew from Fl'ies.-Polystictus abietinus, (l).--Polrstictus elongatus; (1).- 

Polystictus sanguineus, (5).-Geaster hygl'ometricus? (l).-Schizophyllum 

commune,~(4). 

Craterellus diamesa, (1). ("Type locality" as "Thelephora~: (sic). It 

is probably same as Craterellus -canthal'ellus.) 

MORRIS, GEORGE E., Maine: 

Hydnum geogenium, (see Note 87). 

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r' Polyporus arculal'ius.-Polyporus sulphureus.-Favolus eUl'opaeus.- 

~:~"'-Tl'emel1a frondosa.-Exidiopsis alba, (See Note 48, Letter 44).-Polyporus 

~tpicipes.-Trametes sepium.-Hydnum pulcherrimum.-Hirneola auricula- 

Judae.-Fomes 

·'inophilus. 

(Ganodel'ma) reniformis.-Fomes pomaceus.-lI'omes frax- 

Fornes (Ganodermus) l'eniformis, I think. If not it is Fornes applac- 

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Favolus eUf'opaeus.-Urnula cl'aterium. 

RICK, REV. J., Brazil: 

PoIYP91'USFeei.-Lenzites e-rubescens (See Note 89).-Polystictus membl'anaceus.-Daedalea 

stercoides. 

Hydnum spongiosum. Cotype. Au excellent species belonging to a 

section of the gen.us not represented in Europe or United States.-Gano_ 

del'mus Oel'stedii = pachyotis Speg. teste Rick, resinosus Pat. in Europe, 

and s~ssile Murr. in the United States.-Ganodermus renidens, (see Note 

90) .-Polyporus fruticum.-polyporus Blanchetian us.-PoIystictus licnoides, 

very thin fOl'lll.-Hydnum rawakense.-LachnocladiUl11 compl'eSSllm as 

named by Rev. Rick.-LachnocIadium (sP.).--Merulius tl'emellosus. 

SCRULTZE-WEGE, MADAME, Germany: 

Fornes leucophaeus.-Daedalca gibbosa.-Panus tol'ulosus.-Lenzites 

daepiaria.-Stereum hirsutum.-Polystictus versicolor.-Merulius tremel_ 

losus.-Polystictus perennis. 

Sistotl'ema confluens. Sent as pol~rporus rutrosus which is a doubtful 

species only known from Rostkovius' Old figure. (Cir. Stipitate PolYPol'oids, 

p. 130.) Sistotrema confluens has in a general way some resemblance to. 

this old fi~reJ but is much smaller, ancLhas irpicoid pores. Only recently 

one of our American Ilexperts" who apparently does· not know a Polyporus 

from a Hydnum, discovered that Sistotrema confluens belonged to the genus 

Hydnum (sic.).-Helvella crispa .. 

SMITH, THEO. L., Massachusetts: 

Polyporus sulphul'euS.-:M:itrula paludosa. 

STORER, MISS E. D., Georgia: . 

Mel'ulius Corium. Specimen in its prime color and a fine species in this 

stage. These are the first specimens I ever saw of'this species so brightly 

colored.-Stereum fasciatum.-polystictus hirsutus.-Stel'eum albo-baQium. 

-Polystictus vel'sicolor.-Lentinus stl'(g;Osus.-Polyporus CUl'tisii. 

STOWARD, DR. F., Anst1'alia: 

Polysac.cum pisocal'pium . 

.'EPPER,J. G. 0., South Australia: 

Fomes. Probably unnamed, snialI, ungulate, with deep, narrow, sulcate 

rings. Spores globose, 5, mic., coloL·ed. Setae n~ne. Close to rimosus. 

Calvatia l'ubr

WILDER, MRS. H. E:, California: 

Poiypol'uS Schweinitzii, dimidiate, imbric.Q.te.-Lycoperdon gemmatum. 

-Lycoperdon fuscum. 

YASUDA, PROF. A., Japan: 

Polystictus iodinus.-Rhizopogon l'ubescens.-:-Fomes connatus, young._ 

ThelcphOl"a spiculosa.-Rhi:dna undulata.-Canthal'ellus floccosus. An American 

species.-Lenzites stl'iata.-Lenzites subferruginea._Irpex. Unnamed 

I believe.-Stel'eum Burtianium. (See Note 91.) 

Tl'ametes comfl'agosa, unnamed form. Compare Note 55 in Letter No. 

44. W.e do not have this form in America ......:...Daldinia concentrica, form 

tending towards verllicosa.-.Trogia cl'ispa. 

ZENKER, DR. G., Africa: 

Polystictus incomptus. Quite· frequent in Africa. 

StCl'eUlU affinis. (See Note 92.) 

THE LENTINI, OF OUR MUSEUM. 

(By C. G. Lloyd, written at .Kew, April, 1913.) 

. Recently, while at Kew we studied the species of Lentinus which we 

have received from foreign collectors in coinp"al'ison with the abundant 

collections and historical material preserved at Kew. W'e have since worked 

ovei:' the specimens, at Leiden, Berlin, and Paris, which include about all 

the historical specimens except a few in Fries' herbarium at Upsala . 

. We .shall not tro~ble to define what distinction should be made between 

Lentinus and Panus; for we do not know. The original definition of Lentinus 

included the dry, persistent Agarics ~vith equal gills, or if unequal, serrate. 

In Fries'Epicrisis, he restricted this definition to species with "dentate 01' . 

lacerate" gills, but this definition only applies to a few of the species that he 

lists in the genus. We accept Lentinus in the meaning that it has acquired 

by Tlse, viz., Agarics of a dry, persistent nature, reviving when moist, and 

having' the gills mostly subequal,. or if unequal, senate. Thelille is not. 

sharply drawn between Lentinus and Panns, though ill .theory Panus should> 

have unequal gills with entire edges. We find we have received the follow_ 

ing species 'of 'Lentinus from correspOndel'its. ' 

LENTIN.US VILLOSUS (Type at Kew)" This species, originally from 

Mauritius, 'is widespread in the tropics and very commO'n in American 

tropics. When young it has long, cirrose hairs on the margin, but when 

old these hairs are to an extent" detersive,' and rarely specimens become 

bald .with age. UsualI,y, however, these long hairs are a marked feature 

of the plant. The' stem is scaly when young with a tendency to' become 

smooth and dark. (For Fries it is thcn Lentinus nigripes.) The colO'r is 

brown. The plant reached Berkeley abundantly from' the American tropics 

and he refened it usually to villosus. He named it also Swartzii" crassipes, 

siparius, Wrightii, subcervinus, rigidulus, and SChomburgkii, and also determined 

it as being _cril1itus and tener. Leveille named it fumigatus 

according to his type at Paris. The:re are at Kew a few specimens from 

I!idia and a :few from Africa. 

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Specimens from Florida-Mrs. M. A. Noble, C. G. Lloyd; Louisiana_ 

A. B. Langlois; Southern California-To S. Bl'andegee; West Indies-Wm. 

Cradwick, Thos. Langton, H. Miller; Central America-S. Schumo; Brazil- 

G. Peckolt, M. L. Demazio; Africa-Rev. J. Gqlet, J. M. Wood. 

LENTINUS STUPPEUS. From ·the nature of the hairs this is the 

same as villosus but the color is dark, almost black. It is a.pparently an 

African specie:) only. r have ,heretofore referred it to cinosus, which is 

probably s;'une species. r have specimens from Madagascar-Henri Perrier 

de la Bathie (three collections). 

LENTINUS NICOTIANA is for me only a form of Lentinus stuppeus 

with the hairs fasciculate, into scale-like bundles. 

LENTINUS VELUTINUS. Color brown. Stem densely and persistently 

hirsute, velutinate. Pileus with similar covering but On the margin 

he hairs are longer and l'igid. A most common species in tropical America; 

more rare in Africa and the East. I have species from Theodore Stuckert, 

Argentine; Leon Castillon, Argentine; Dr. Anna Brockes, Brazil; Donor 

unknown, India; He:ill'i Perrier de hI. Rathie, Madagascar; S. Hutchings, 

Bengal. 

LENTINUS EGREGIUS of Australia is q~ite close to velutinus but is 

a larger plant with narrow, close gills. It is only known from the type. - 

LENTINUS DICHROUS. There is no material at Kew, but my collection 

from Samoa has been so deter~ine(l. • It has the same velutinate 

stipe as velutinus,' but hairs on the pileus are more reduced and scabrous. 

It is also a smaller and more slender species. Lentinus dichrous was based 

on an old Zollinger collection which I have not located, but I know no other 

name for the Samoa collection. 

LENTINUS BLEPHARODES. This species of the American tropics 

has been confused both with velutiuus and with similis of th'e East. It is 

intermediate, different from velutinus in having a usually striate pileus, 

.also yellowish, more d£stant gills. It is frequent in the American tropics, 

and was ~riginally from Cuba. I have a specimen from the East determined 

as Lentinus braccatus which is probably the same thing. Specimen 

from Gustavo Peckolt, Brazil, and Bo~anical Gurden, Saharanpur, India. 

LENTINUS SIMILIS. This species is vel'Y similar to blepharodes as 

,0 the pileus. It occurs only in the East, not in the American tropics, but 

the Ce~rlon specimens were mostly misl'eferred by Berkeley to ~entinus 

blepharodes. It differs from ..blepharodes in the covering of the stipe not 

being'velutimi.te but has a spongy, matted covel'jng, as first pointed out 

by. Petch. Berkeley also misreferred one Ceylon collectio.n to' Lentinus 

badius, a glabrous species of 'the Philippines. I have a collection (old and 

effete) froIU'M~ A~_D. Machardo, Perak. I have also one specimen -that I 

collected in Samoa, 

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LENTINUS FULVUS. Color dark brown. Stipe strongly hirsute, 

velutinate. Pileus hispid, hirsute. This species, known at Kew 'only, from 

Australia, could be regarded as an exaggerated velutinus, same general 

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type of plant but much stronger, more hispid,.pileus. I have no specimen 

":·"of this .. 

LENTINUS F ASCIATUS. As to hairs same exactly as Lentinus 

fulvus, but the color is light tawny, and it seems so different in this respect, 

that on the color alone it may be rllaintained as different. Only known 

from Australia, and called also by Berkele'y Lentinus holopogonius. I have 

a fine collection from an unknown correspondent in Australia. 

LENTINUS STRIGOSUS. This is a frequent, American species and 

the ~mly one we have in this hirsute section, excepting Lentinus velutinus' 

and Lentinus villosus, both of the extrerne South. Lentinus· strigosus 

occurs as far North as Canada. In American mycology, although an evident 

mistake, this species passed for years as being ~entinus Lecomtei 

and it is only recently that it has. been called anything else. Years ago 

having decided it could not possibly be Lentinus Lecomtei, I sent it to 

Bl'esadola, who referred it to Panus rudis and this name has been lately 

much used by myself and others in America. It is "Panus rudis H of Western 

Europe, but why, a Panus I can not explain. Surely it is the same 

genus as the preceding species. It is tne only Lentinus (of this hirsute 

section) that grows in EU,rope and it occurs frequently only in the Western 

Europe, particularly Hungary and Austria. That it is Lentinus strigosus 

of Schweinitz there is no' possible doubt. It is a plant of wide distribution. 

I have it from Samoa, also Madagascai' frqm Perrier de la Bathie, and have 

referred here (with doubt) a collection from Albert Green, Australia, and 

. one from A. Yasuda, Japan .. 

LENTINUS PRAERIGIDUS. This isa noteworthy species of ,th~ East, 

quite frequent and very, distinct from any species of the American tropics. 

It has an even, minutely tomentose pileus, sometimes breaking' into' scales 

\.\rhen old, and very cia;·';, rather hroad, and distant gills. Berkeley' called it 

praerigidus, estriatus, and Thwaitesii. Cuney called it Kurzianus and determined 

it also as furfurosus of Fries (which I presume no' one knows). 

Leveille se·nt a specimen to Kew' labeled pqlychrous,. but his specimen at 

Paris is not the same species. I have a specimen' from S. Hutchings, 

Bengal. The very dark color of the gills, which is the most· salie!lt character, 

is assumed in drying. When moistened they are' a much lighter 

brown.' 'Spores (secured in abundance from Mr. Hutchings's specimen when 

received) are hyali~e, cyli?drical, straight, 31,6 x 10 mic. 

LENTINUS SA.JOR CAJU.: Pileus with a veil that often remains as a' 

dng at the base of the gills, hence it belongs to the "genus~' Lent6dium, 

not in the sense of the man who made the genus Lentodium (Morgan) 

for he had no such idea and would have resented b.eing so ·misrepresented, 

but in the perverted s~nse of the writer ,"vho used Morgan's generic name 

as a co'nvenient juggle. Lentinus Sajor Caju is a most abundant'species 

in Africa and in the East, but does not occur in the American tropics. It 

is the only foreign species known to me that has a ring. It is yellow, 

always glabI:ous, with broad, rather distant, yellow gills. 

Rumphius gave a crude but evident figure of it with an indication 

even of the seal' left by the .ring. Fries correctly ~nterpreted Rumphius' 

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crude ,figure and his specimen is evidence at Kew. 'Klotzsch called the 

plant Lentinus exilis and this name was generally used by both Berkeley 

and Cooke, and many collections so labeled are- at Kew. Currey called it 

Lentinus irregular is. Leveille with his -habitual inclination to call everything 

a "new species" that he did not know, and he did not know many, 

named it Lentinus dact~'liophorus, which name has been mostly used at 

Pal'is. Murrill elucidated the subject by referring exilis to an American 

specie$ (though it does not'grow in America), Agaricus hirtus, described 

as having a stipe '11-2 lines" (sic) long (one or two inches would more 

nearly fit it), and surface Usetoso-hirtus." The surface of Lentinus exilis 

is always as smooth as a billard ball. Either Mun'ill made a very bad 

guess or Fries gave a very bad description. I have a dozen 01' more collections 

of this common speci~s from the following correspondents: 

S. Hutchings, Bengal; A. D. Machardo, Perakj Museum Paris, New 

Caledonia; Rev. J. Gillet, Congo; Dr. G. :Zenker, Kamel'un; H. Perrier de 

la Bathie" Madagascar; Dr. K. Braun, German East Ail'ica; Miss A. V. 

Duthie, Transvaa}j J. Medley Wood, Natal; P. Koenig, Mauritius. 

LENTINUS VELLEREUS. Color yellowish (when dry) with dark, 

rather broad gills. Surface vdvciy or fotllwlosc. Specimens from A. A. 

Evelyn, Barbados; sent with the next species, which is alleged to be same 

but the stateme-nt is to me most dubious. ' 

LENTINUS SCLEROPUS. Color yellowish, 'glabrolls, with rather 

broad gills .. This is the same· as the preceding excepting as to surface. 

Statement has been published that it.,is the same species. I much doubt 

it. It appears quite comm.on in the American tropics judging from the 

number of times it has been discovered to be a "new species" (about a 

dozen). Persoon named this plant from Gaudichaud's collection in Brazil, 

and the type is in good condition at Paris. Murrill takes the name Lentinus 

hirtus as the valid' name for· the species, although years subsequent 

to Perso.on's name. Can it be possible that Murrill has joined issues with 

the band· of conspirators at Brussels and excludes pOOl' old Persoon from 

the benefits of "those sacred rights of priority?" Le'ntinus infundibuliiormis· 

the. type (almost destroyed) from· Cerih:al America seems to. be 

same as sclel'opus, but the determination from the East are obviously a 

different species. I have one specimen of scleropus from A. A. Evelyn, 

Barbados.·· , 

LENTINUS REVELATUS. This is much the same as scleropus, of 

the" American tropics, but differs in. very nanow, close gills. I have collections 

made in Samoa. The. types of revelatus have much longer stalks 

and several are more infundibuliform than. my collection, but I, prefer to 

so refer them rather than propose' a·new species . 

. LENTINUS SCLEROTICOLA. The species of Lentinus that are developed 

from a tuber have not been studied in detail by me. The most 

common one, in Africa at least, is Lentil1us Tuber regium supposed to 

have been o'riginally illustrated by Rumphius, but if so, very crudely. I 

collected one in Samoa,· that is surely Lentinus scleroticola as· named by 

Murray, but as tq the relative value ·of the five or six specific names of 

Lentinus from tubel's, I have made no' studies. 

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LENTINUS SUBNUDUS. Pileus usually infundibuliform, smooth, 

white, discoloring when old. Gills close. ,·This seems quite a frequent 

species in the East. r have it from C. B. Ussher, Straits Settlements; 

J. P. Mousset, Java, and have collected it in Samoa. It has probably other 

names as Panus and the following as Lentinus a,l'e in my opinion all the 

same: cl'etaceus, inconspicuus, lobatus,' coa'dullatus, and caespitosus of 

Currey changed to CUl'reyanus. There are other synonyms at Berlin and 

Paris. 

LENTINUS TIGRINUS. A collection from S. N. Ratnagar, India, 

seems to be this species of Europe. 

LENTINUS TORULOSUS. In Fries as Panus, but r can not see how 

it is to be distinguished generically from previously listed plants. I have 

a collection from Dr. J. Dutra, Brazil, which is, more slender but otherwise 

seems to me the same as this species as I know it in Europe. 

LENTINUS CONNATUS. This is quite a distinct species in the Ea'st 

and is f.ound in several museums having been distributed in Zollinger's 

exsiccatae from the Philippines, though Berkeley afterward referred several 

collections to Lentinus infundibuliformis, a quite different plant that he had 

named (several times) from the A,merican tropics. Leveille called it 

Lentinus javanicus and Cesati, Lentinus Beccarianus. r have a specimen 

from the Philippines sent to me while at Kew for comparison.' 

LENTINUS (species)', I have a c~llection' from Joges Ray, India, that 

r did not find named. ' 

LENTINUS (species un-named I believe). This was sEmt to me at 

Kew fOl' comparison. It came from the Philippines, and in the l'ecent 

list of Bresadola appears as Lentinus polychrous, Leveille. No type of 

Lentinus polychl'oUS is 'found (at Leiden) and the specime'ns that- Leveille 

sent to Paris and to Kew are different species, so that I,think the mime 

can not be used ,with certainty. Judging from Leveille's description the 

plant at Kew (which is' the same as Lentinus praerigidus), is the cotype. 

ADVERTISEMENTS. 

, The following personal names can be added to the foregoing plant 

names by those who believe in, this form of advertisement. 

Lentinus blephal'odes Berkeley, connatus Berkeley, dichrous Leveille, 

egregius Berkeley, fasciatus Be'rkeley, fulvus Berkeley, Nic,otiana Berkeley, 

prael'i~ddus Berkeley, revelatus Berkeley, Sajor Caju Fries, scleroticola Mul'''; 

ray, scleropus Pel'soon, similis Bel'kele,y, strigoslls Schweinitz,' stuppeus 

Klotzsch, subnudus Berkeley, tigrinus Bullial'd, torulosus Persoon, villosus 

Klotzsch, vellereus, Berkeley, :relutinus Fries. 

NOTE 84,-Rydnum COlll'[la.ctum, from -Miss Lizzie C, Allen, Newtonville, Mass. This 

specimen, receiv~d fresh, I was very.glad to get., as it is n species I have !level' collected 

'llildit has heen cOllfulled with Hydnuru t\urn.ntiacum and Hydnum cneruleum. It it quite 

different from HydnuiU aUl'autiacum as I kl,ow it w~lI in the woods of Sweden. It is 

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ford. Tht! receipt of fresh l'l, Tld>l h:'l>lJe(l llallkel' r believe to mist:'lke old Sr,•.•dll~~nll of Hrdnum fenligineuill fol' 

Hrullull\ scobj~ulahllll. 

Hrdnum scobiculatnnt is murh thinllel' and :umrUl1 o'nd the "$cobiculationll" al'e llIore 

in the lJafal'o of ahortivo pi]eoli tlll\n the tnl(' "Ilcol)i('uiatiolls" of Hydl1nm f'~l'rtigillellin. 

It was CRllf!d by Ihnkel', H~'dllum COnCl'llKCtlnsJ,lId !1M !Ntll;'l'a1Jy in Amedcall mycolo;y 

heen referred to Hrdm:m :OllaCum, It is a COIlln

not so hnd, althollgh the context is more ligneous than OLe usual Lentinull. His claim 

that it was a ··UC\V species" is uotcworthy onlJ' as ilLdicating his l111fallliliarity with tILe 

"old species." 

NO'l'E 90.-Ganodermus ren!dens, from Rov .. l. Rit'k, Bm7.il. I 1\lli glad to get a 

nice specimcn ot this Jllant from Rev. Rick, !IS i.t is the first specimen I have gotteu, It 

ill rare ill llra:r.il. In my l)am{lhlet on Stipitatc POIY]lOl'Oids! 11l1ttltis species ill AIllalU'O' 

(lormus. It shoulll gcril't.ion t.hts is cor1'ect. Dr. Hennings evidently 

Itamed it for Dr. Zenker, ho\~ever, as heing "Thelephorn cfr. aurantiaca Berk," as 

specimens so named ,\re found in various n,uScUlnS. AH n"'l'keleyne\'t'r 

requested. 

men "ThelellTIOl':J. aUl':llltiac:l.," it would be qtli"te difficult to' make 

named :lllyspeci. 

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it is htLrd to head it oil'. It seems Imrtlly logical to (,'ontinuc calling a plant "001'dYCO}18 

entolllorrhizt\ Dickson" which the most. casual observer should note h:l.s little resemblance 

to Dickson's excellent fig~re. 

NOTE 95.-Stipitate ·Polyporu5 volvatus. I have receivf'll drawings from Prof. S. 

Kawamura, TOkyo, Jf\.pan, illustrating the stipe found all PolYlloru.i voLvatus in Japan. 

Prof. Kawamura advises me that it iR ahundfLnt, growing on .lead trunks of Pinus dens iflora, 

aud the larger llnmlJer of tlwm have stipes, imbedded in the holes made by horing 

insects. It is very r;\rely in Jnp:lII tlH\t sef!site specimens are fOlUld. Tn our countl'y just 

the reverse is the Cc.fie, Of Polyporus volvo.t'.ls, every apcdmell in our museum is sessile, 

not olle ba,ving any ,indication (>f 0. stem. The stipitnlc form W:1!'1collected once in tlLill 

country, as has been noted in my publications, but it is extremely rare!. 

NOTE 96,-Tremella fnsiforre.is, I have made !I. statement somewhere tho.t Tremella 

fusiiormis does not occur in the lTnitt'd &ta1\'s, Recently I s

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