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azonate, unpolished, thin on the margin, narrowed behind into a 
flattened stem-like base, whitish; pores small, short, subrotund, 
decurrent, whitish ; pileus 6—10 lines broad, about 1 line thick. 
Decaying sticks and chips on damp ground. Kansas. July. 
Bartholomew. 
This plant resembles Polyporus humilts in size, color and general 
appearance, but it differs from it in texture. The notes of the col- 
lector say that the pileus ishygrophanous. Inthe dried specimens 
its upper surface appears almost as if minutely tomentose or velvety 
pubescent. The margin beneath is sterile. 
TYLOSTOMA PUNCTATUM. 
Peridium subglobose, flattened and umbilicate at the base, the 
external peridium falling away above, persistent at the base, the 
internal peridium papery but rather firm and tough, minutely and 
irregularly punctate-pitted, whitish, the mouth slightly prominent, 
small, lacerated; stem cylindrical, obscurely squamose or rimose- 
Squamose, sulcate-striate above, hollow, subferruginous, white 
within ; spores pale-ferruginous, globose, minutely warted or rough- 
€ned, .00016 to .0002 in. broad, the threads of the capillitium hya- 
Ine, sparsely branched, .0003 to .0004 in. broad, broader than the 
Spores, the ends obtuse or subtruncate, occasionally thickened ; 
Spores globose, .00016 to .0002 in. broad ; plant 1 to 1.5 in. high, 
Peridium 5 to 6 lines in diameter ; stem about 2 lines thick. 
Sandy ground in pastures. Kansas. July. Bartholomew. 
The peculiar character of the species is in the minute punctate 
pits or impressions in the inner peridium. These are somewhat 
Scattered and unequal and are similar to those seen in the seed 
Coat of some species of Lithospermum. I find no mention of such 
a character in any of the published species. 
CLAVARIA PLATYCLADA. 
Clubs caestipose, more or less connate at the base, simple or 
forked, rarely with one or two irregular branches, solid, com- 
Pressed, tapering below into a whitish base, canary yellow, white 
within, the tips flattened, obtuse, becoming brownish with age; 
Spores globose, .0002 to .00024 in. broad. Tufts 3 to 4 in. high ; 
clubs 2 to 4 lines wide, scarcely more than 1 line thick. 
Woods. Maine. September. Harriet C. Davis. 
: The species is closely allied to Clavarta fusiformis, from which 
It is separated by its solid, obtuse, compressed and often forked or 
branched clubs tapering below into a whitish base. 
