Tokyo Imperial University Research Articles

Polyporaceae from Japan

The following interesting collection of Japanese polypores, seventy-one packets in all, was recently received for determination from Professors S. Kusano and S. Nohara, of the Agricultural College, Tokyo Imperial University. The Garden herbarium has formerly contained very little material in this group from Japan, and little has been known of the distribution of the species there, except through the published papers of Professor Hennings, of the Berlin Botanic Garden, who has reported the majority of the fifty or more species known to occur in Japan. These specimens were collected in Tokyo (including Komaba), Iwaki, Shinano, Shimoosa, Konodai, Mt. Takao, Yoyogi, Nikko, Yumoto in Nikko, Oki Province, Formosa and Karafuto. The chief collectors were S. Kusano and S. Nohara, but the following names also appear: K. Miyake, Ch. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, T. Tanaka, Onuma, Yagi and Nakahara. The collector last mentioned obtained most of the specimens sent from Formosa and Karafuto. Professors Kusano and Nohara are now planning to collect fungi in various parts of Japan on a larger scale, which seems highly desirable, as the mycological flora of Japan is apparently largely unknown at the present time.