Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

AMES, F. H., New York:
Lenzites betulina. Daldinia concentrica.
ARANZADI, C. de., Spain (a):
Polyporus giganteus. Stereum undulatum. Polyporus rufescens.
Polyporus arcularius. Polyporus lucidus. A fine specimen (from Biscay)
with a stipe a foot long.
Clavariopsis (?) Species probably unnamed. The tendency nowadays
to classify the tremellaceous plants on the basidia characters alone is
quite complicated and embarrassing. This specimen, by all the cid
writers, would have been called a Tremella. It is pure white and in
general appearance is very close to the common plant we have in the
United States usually known (but badly misknown) as "Tremella albida."
The basidia are not imbedded as in Tremella, but form a surface layer as
in an ordinary "homobasidia." Doubtless (from analogy) they are cruciately
divided when mature, though I find none such. They are all simply obovate
bodies, showing no sign of septation or sterigmata, but are probably immature,
as the moistened plant threw down no spores on drying. This
type of basidia is what Holterman has shown in his genus Clavariopsis of
Java, and to this genus I would provisionally refer the plant rather than
make a "new genus." In form, however, the plant is a Tremella, not a
Clavaria. We think no plant with similar characters has ever been noted
from Europe, though if it has been named by any of the old mycologists it
was undoubtedly as a Tremella.
Also three Hydnums not recognized by me, as I have not studied the
foreign species of this genus.
BALDWIN, D. A., Massachusetts:
Geaster hygrometricus.
BALLOU, W. H., Forked River, N. J.:
Polyporus (Sp.)
BARBIER, M. J., France (b):
Hydnum amicum. Hydnum zonatum.
Daedalea confragosa, Trametes form. This is labeled "Lenzites
trametea Quelet." It is the plant usually known in Europe as Trametes
Bulliardi, but it is only the trametoid form of Daedalea confragosa.
Polystictus perennis.
Fomes fraxineus. Well illustrated by Bulliard under this name, and
I think there is no excuse for Quelet's name (incanus). Nor can I agree
with Quelet that it is a synonym for Fomes ulmarius, which is common in
England on elm.
Polyporus Boucheanus (=Forquignoni Quelet). Hydnum caeruleum.
Irpex (Species unknown to me).
Polpyorus stipticus, I believe, in the true sense, a white plant that
turns red when bruised. The white plant (not turning red) often called
stipticus in France, is another species, I think.
BARKER, W. E., New Zealand (c):
Secotium erythrocephalum. A bright red gasteromycete, only known