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same color, habits, context, texture, pores, and spores. It is a rare form both in Europe
and the United States.
NOTE 279. Cyathus microsporus, from N. L. T. Nelson, Florida. It is very rarely
that species of Cyathus are received from the United States that cannot be referred to
one of the three common species. This is the second one I have received. The abundant
spores are 6-8 mic. which is larger than that of type (4-6). In fact it is Cyathus Hookeri
of my pamphlet, but I do not now feel that species based on a slight, spore-size difference
should be maintained. Cyathus microsporus is a tropical type, and differs from the usual
Cyathus species in its very small spores.
NOTE 280. Polyporus fumidiceps, from L. Romell, Sweden. This came from Schenectady,
N. Y., and is the first specimen I have gotten of the species. It is exactly same as
Polyporus tephroleucus to the eye but differs in having ovate, transparent, guttulate spores
3! /L > x 5. The spores of tephroleucus are allantoid I 1 /, x 5. As the plants are so similar
I have gone over the spores of all my collections labeled Pol. tephroleucus and did not
find any that were not correctly determined. All have allantoid spores. One must be on
the guard however, to distinguish fumidiceps from tephroleucus for there is only a slight
spore difference.
NOTE 281. Polyporus quaitecasensis (?), from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. If this plant
has been named it is as above. I have mislaid my notes and material of the type, hence
cannot compare it. But this plant has the most strongly asperate spores I ever saw in a
Polyporus, and is closely related to Polyporus Berkeley!. It was a large species, 20-30 cm.
long, and specimen received was only a little piece. There are no notes as to whether it
grew on log or tree, or whether it has a stipe or not. I hope it will not prove to be correct,
for I should hate to perpetuate such a barbarous name as that.
NOTE 282. Polyporus asterosporus, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. As named by
Rev. Torrend. For me a form of Polyporus rufescens with which it agrees in all macroscopic
characters, to the eye is so similar that I could not believe at first there could be
any microscopic difference. Polyporus rufescens is noted for having two kinds of spores,
the basidial, globose, 6-8 mic. hyaline, smooth and always abundant ; conidial spores 3-4
mic. hyaline, smooth. Polyporus asterosporus agrees also in having the same basidial
spores, but the conidial spores same size, are strongly rough. In this connection, I do
not doubt that Polyporus Marmellosensis (cfr. Syn. Stip. Pol. 176, fig. 473) also from
Brazil, is a form of this same species. I failed to examine its spores, and Hennings does
not note whether smooth or rough.
NOTE 283. "Fomes psila is not rare here. It surely is the Fomes form of Trametes
hydnoides." C. Torrend.
While I am not surprised that Fomes psila is considered a Fomes form of Trametes
hydnoides, it is a curious fact that Trametes hydnoides is a very common plant in Florida
and Cuba, and Fomes psila has never been found there.
NOTE 284. "I have no doubt as to the identity of Trametes cupreo-rosea and Trametes
Feei. They grow on the same stumps abundantly in Brazil." C. Torrend.
While the collections I have always seen have appeared very different and I have seen
no connecting species, I could accept on sufficient evidence that both are the same species.
At the same time it is hard for me to believe from the evidence that I have seen.
NOTE 285. Polyporus Ballouii, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. Letter 49, Note 118.
In the original publication the spores were given too large. I judge 4x5 mic. is the
largest spore I note now, which is slightly larger than the Brazilian plant (3 x 4) but
surely same species. Since I published a name for the plant I have found that Murrill
has a name for it from the West Indies. Polyporus tropicalis, perhaps prior, but not
appropriate for a plant that grows around New York City.
NOTE 286. Polyporus (Amaurodermus) rudis, from Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil. This
has soft, spongy flesh, and was not at first recognized by me. On comparison however,
I find it same as the Australian species, or at least so close it would not be practical to
hold them different. It is very close to Polyporus rugosus, which is the only common
species in this section in the East, and it is the first from the American tropics I have
seen that is close to the Eastern species.
NOTE 287. Fomes Ohiensis. (From Rev. C. Torrend, Brazil.) or Trametes as to
this collection. It is frequent in the United States, but seems rarer in Brazil. It is
quite close but a different species from Polyporus ochroleucus of the East, the only other
similar species known.
NOTE 288 Matula poroniaeformis, from Rev. C. Torrend, India. (Berk, as Autocreas).
A most curious genus considered in detail in Myc. Notes page 390, fig. 228 to
230. Heretofore the genus has only been known from Ceylon and Brazil. It has been
found in Brazil by Rev. Rick and called Michenen Rompeln. A full history of the plant is
given in location cited.
NOTE 289. Polyporus Sartwelli, from James R. Weir, Montana. Compare Myc. Notes,
page 463. I think it is an abnormal form of some other species.
NOTE 290 Polyporus stipticus, sent by James R. Weir, Montana, as interpreted in a
pamphlet I no'w have on press on Polyporus. It is a rare plant in Europe and this is
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