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STEREUM CAPERATUM, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE,
SOUTH AFRICA (Fig. 751). Effuso-reflexed, largely resupinate,
but with well developed, pileate portion. Surface tawny with puffed
margin, matted, tomentose. Hymenium white. Metuloids (typical)
Fig. 751
sharp, hyaline, rough, abundant, projecting 30 mic., but borne at
various levels, and many of them entirely imbedded. Spores elliptical,
5x8, hyaline, smooth.
Closely related to Stereum bicolor, it is a Lloydella for those
who recognize this genus. These are the only two species with white
hymenium known to me.
PTYCHOGASTER ALVEOLATUS
FROM FRANK H. AMES, NEW
YORK. Supposed to be the coni-
(Fig. 752),
dial deformation of Polyporus rufescens,
named as above by Boudier.
The specimens are globose, not
elongated, as shown in Boudier's
figure, but in malformations, shape
does not count for much. An
account of the "genus" Ptychogaster was given
in Mycological Notes (Pol. Issue), page 31.
Ptychogaster appears in Saccardo as Fig. 752
Ceriomyces,
which is a juggle that would have done
credit to our New York friends.
POLYPORUS
FROM FRANK
DISTORTUS (Fig. 753),
H. AMES, NEW YORK,
or the abortive form of Polyporus rufescens
of Persoon. This specimen, however, is of a
very peculiar, narrow, pointed shape, exactly
the same as to shape as Boudier illustrated
under the name Ptychogaster alveolatus, which
is, as he states, a Ptychogaster form of Poly- Fig. 753.
porus rufescens.
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