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species with a soil, veiutmate, Drown sorraee, sott. spongy, white flesh, and rather amall
pores that are white when fresh but turn black with age. The spores which were merely
described as "minute" are elongated, 5x12 mic., hyaline, smooth. The species is
evidently badly figured in the Handbook, as the pileus is not red as shown but is brown.
The species nearest to Polyporus Hartmanni is Polyporus radicatus of the United States.
NOTE 19. Is Fomes graveolens odoriferous ? It has that reputation, in fact was
so named, and elaborate accounts of it have been written under the name of "sweet knot."
It has no odor when dry. I am told by Mr. L. O. Overholts that he has collected it fresh
and growing and could not detect any odor. Let us have the truth about this. I hope
the next one to find this rare species will note particularly if it has an odor. While we
do not question Mr. Overholts' observations, the plant may be odoriferous under certain
conditions and not under others. Also what is the color of its spores? Mr. Murrill
records them as brown and bases a "new genus" on them. 1 have never found them
but think they will be found to be white. At least most species with similar context
have white spores, and the fact that I find no spores in the dried specimens is a suspicious
one. Most plants with brown spores have them abundantly in the dried specimens.
NOTE 20. Polystictus fimbriatus. This is an abundant plant in Brazil and tropical
America, and has reached Europe a number of times. (ilaziou sent it in quantities. The
hyinenium is rarely if ever perfect, usually only part of the pore walls are developed,
giving it an appearance something like a Radulum, or in a faint degree like a Hydnum.
It has been variously classed as Polyporous, Polystictus, Hydnum, Thelephora, Beccariella
and as a matter of strict accuracy it is neither. It has of course a profusion
of specific names to correspond. I confidently expect that Mr. Banker will rise to the
occasion and discover it to be a "new genus." Professor McGinty has already made
the discovery, but in deference to his distinguished co-worker he writes me he will not
announce it "at present.
32434.
A recent count of The Lloyd Library shows there are 32434 volumes on
the shelves. This is the actual number of the covers or volumes. The pamphlets
are collected, twenty-five to fifty in a cover, and each cover counts as
one volume.
Tin- Lloyd Library is devoted almost exclusively to Botany and Pharmacy,
and one would hardly suppose there had been issued so many books
pertaining to these two subjects. And yet we presume that we have up to
the present time not been able to get more than one-half that have been
published on these subjects.