232 MurrRILL: PoLYPORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA 
Georgia (Ellis), Ohio (James, Morgan), Delaware (Commons), 
New York (Earle, Underwood), Massachusetts (Underwood), 
Pennsylvania (Herbst), Florida (Martin), New Jersey (Ellis), Mis- 
souri (Glatfelter). 
The favorite host of this species is the maple, though it is also 
found on poplar, linden and a few other deciduous trees. Living 
Norway maples in Sweden were found to be seriously injured by 
its attacks, and I have noticed it on this and other species of 
maple used as shade-trees in American cities. 
_ 12. Fomes Meliae (Underw.) 
Polyporus Meliae Underw. Bull. Torrey Club, 24: 85. 1897. 
Described from specimens collected by Underwood on branches 
of Melia Azederach in 1895. It also occurs on Gleditsta and 
Fraxinus, as is indicated by the recent Alabama collections of 
Earle and Baker. 
13. Fomes rubritinctus sp. nov. 
A large perennial plant of many layers, the upper partly dead 
and discolored, the lower smooth, light-colored and anoderm with 
large pores, which become dark red when bruised. Pileus corky 
to woody, dimidiate, convex, 4-12 x 5-15 x 3-10 cm.; surface 
anoderm, smooth, velvety to the touch, white or pallid, becoming 
dark brown and roughened with age; margin obtuse, sterile, con- 
colorous: context corky, becoming woody, pallid, 1.5 cm. thick : 
tubes unevenly stratified, the layers separated by unusually thick 
cushions of context, 0.5-1.0 cm. long each season, 2 to a mm., 
isabelline within, becoming umbrinous in the older layers; mouths 
subcircular or polygonal, edges thin, isabelline, becoming dark 
red when bruised: spores ovoid to globose, 5—7 » long, smooth, 
hyaline, wall of medium thickness, hyphae hyaline. 
Collected by C. L. Smith in Nicaragua and distributed as no. 
138 of his Central American Fungi. 
SPECIES INQUIRENDAE 
Fomes geotropus Cooke, Grevillea, 13: 119. 1884 (Polyporus 
geotropus Cooke, Grevillea, 13: 32. 1884). This species is allied 
to Homes ulmartus Fr, It was described from collections in Dem- 
erara, but seems to range northward to Mexico, Florida and Ala- 
bama. Other doubtful or unknown species are: Homes perpusillus 
(Pers.) Cooke, /. eatensus (Lév.) Cooke, F. aegerita (Fr.) Cooke, 
F.. microporus (Sw.) Cooke, and F. albogriseus Peck. 
New York City. 
