Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

ADDENDUM.
Further information regarding the following two species has
come to hand since the preceding was in type.
POLYPORUS FUMIDICEPS. I have received a specimen from
Mr. L. Romell, Stockholm, having come to him from Schenectady,
N. Y., and it was the first specimen I have gotten of the species. It
is exactly the same as Polyporus tephroleucus to the eye, but differs
in having ovate, transparent, guttulate spores, 3> x 5. The spores of
tephroleucus are allantoid, I>2x5. As the plants are so similar, I
have gone over the spores of all my collection labeled Pol. tephroleucus
and did not find any that were not correctly determined. All
have allantoid spores. One must be on their guard, however, to dis-
tinguish fumidiceps from tephroleucus, for it is only a slight spore
difference.
POLYPORUS AMYGDALINUS is one of the rare Southern
species, known only from the old, discolored types at Kew. I was
therefore particularly glad to receive a specimen which agrees with
the original account, from R. P. Burke, Montgomery, Ala. We have
more pleasure in getting an old species straight than we have in pro-
posing a thousand so-called "new species."
Polyporus amygdalinus we would describe as follows: Surface
soft, dull, pale yellowish (or brownish now) with darker innate fibrils.
Context soft, spongy, punky, light, pale yellow (Salmon buff). Pores
and pore tissue white. Mouths small, round or irregular, white.
Spores not found except small, globose, conidial spores.
of this book as little could be
This species is not in the body
told from the old, effete type at Kew. I would enter it in Section 87.
The contrast of the white pore tissue and yellow flesh is a feature
unknown to me in other species. Ravenel states it has an odor of
bitter almonds when fresh, hence the name.
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