Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

(subresupinate). Polyporus trabeus. Polystictus versicolor. Stereum sanguinolentum.
Stereum Chailletii. Irpex pachydon.
Polyporus benzoinus. The identity of this plant with our common plant
in America (called resinosus) has long been a disputed question. On comparison,
the European plant is decidedly more ligneous and the context not
nearly as soft as in our plant.
Polyporus
aneirina.
elegans. Polyporus Hohnelii. Polyporus albus. Poria
Hydnum Schiedermayeri. This species, which is not unusual, both in
Europe and America, and peculiar in always growing on an apple-tree trunk
(not known from any other host), appears in Fries under the above (outlandish)
name. Recently it has been referred, in this country, to croceum
of Schweinitz, and in Europe to setosum of Persoon, both on the celebrated
principle of "priority." The first is only a guess and probably a bad one,
as no evidence exists and there is nothing in Schweinitz' short "description"
to give any clue even to its identity. As to the second I do not know, but I
suspect it is wrong, as Persoon would hardly have described it as "white"
unless he had been color blind.
Corticium expallens. Corticium filicinum (Cotype). Eichleriella leu-
cophoea. Eichleriella Kmetii.
BRACE, L. J. K., Bahamas:
Fomes leucophaeus. Stipitate form. Geaster saccatus. Pluteus (sp.).
Simblum sphaerocephalum. Formalin material. Color deep red. The
net is broken in fragments and such material (I have been recently told by
Mr. Long) was submitted to Atkinson, on which he made the wonderful
discovery of his imaginary "Dictybole" (cfr. Myc. Notes, pp. 130 and
-363). The statement on page 363 that the genus was based on some abnormally
developed eggs is an error, I am told by Mr. Long, due to a
wrong impression on my part, but the true story of this wonderful discovery
only makes it worse for the author.
Laternea triscapa. Formalin material. Agreeing exactly with the
old figure as to size, but the first specimen known. The columns are fluted
exactly as those of Laternea columnata, and Laternea triscapa is surely only
a depauperate specimen (or form) of Laternea columnata.
Mr. Brace sends me also a sketch of a Laternea with two columns only
< shown), which appears to be a two-columned form of Laternea columnata.
The plant is orange above and the lower portion of the columns
white. If these are constant characters of the phalloid, it is a "new
species," but the probabilities are it is only a sport of Laternea columnata.
Polystictus albidus. Name attributed to Quelet and seems to correspond
to a specimen so named I have from Italy. I think a good "form"
but, except color, has all characters of versicolor.
BREDA DE HAAN, DR. J. VAN, Java (e):
Polyporus. Color gray, sordid, with a rough surface. Pores minute,
sordid. Spores 4x8, hyaline. This is not known to me surely, although it
seems to answer my photograph of the type of Polyporus ostreiformis at
Kew. It does not all agree with the description, however, but that does not
count for much. It should be compared with the type. It is quite close to
our plant in United States, Polyporus Spraguei.
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