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6. Tubes entire, becoming reddish-brown on drying, context ochraceous and pileus 
and stipe reddish-brown in herbarium specimens. 6. S. caeruleoporus. 
Tubes lacerate, fading to grayish-brown or dirty white, context nearly white, pileus 
and stipe dull smoky-brown when dry. 7. S. holocyaneus. 
7. Stipe black and rooting. 8. 
Stipe neither black nor rooting. 9. 
8. Pileus smoky-brown, subtomentose, margin thin, inflexed, context white, tubes 
regular, polygonal, entire, 2mm. long, 0.5 mm, in diameter, stipe cylindrical, 
light-brown above, black and rooting below, spores white, elliptical, 7 5 u. 
8. S. radicatus. 
Pileus drab-colored, nearly glabrous, margin thin, inflexed when young, context 
milk-white even when dry, tubes white, irregular, toothed, 1 mm. long, 0.25 
mm. in diameter, stipe short, sooty-black as far as the decurrent tubes, attached 
to buried wood, spores white, 3-4 * 5-7 u. g. S. subradicatus, 
9. Pileus gray, glabrous or nearly so, margin very thin, context rosy-gray, soft, fleshy, 
thin when dry, tubes small, 0.25-0.5 mm., unequal, decurrent stipe short, 
concolorous. 10. S. griseus. 
Pileus brown. 10. 
10, Stipe dark purple, very thick, pileus fulvous-brown, purplish at times, clothed with 
short tomentum, margin very obtuse, context reddish beneath the cuticle, marked 
when dry with a black concentric line limiting growth, tubes white, 2 to a mm. 
Ir. S. persicinus. 
Stipe yellowish-brown, usually excentric, plants caespitose, pileus yellowish- brown, 
pruinose, margin thin, context rose-tinted when dry, dark red next to the tubes, 
which are small, I-3 X 0.3 mm., decurrent, rose-colored when dry, the edges 
fimbriate. 12. S. Whiteae. 
1. Scutiger Ellisii (Berk.) 
Polyporus Ellisii Berk. Grevillea, '7: 5. 1878. 
Polyporus flavosquamosus Underw. Bull. Torrey Club, 24: 84. 
1897. 
This plant was first collected by Ellis in low woods near New- 
field, New Jersey. In 1886 only two specimens of it were known 
to Ellis, the one just mentioned and one collected in South Caro- 
lina by Ravenel. In 1897 it was found in Alabama by Mrs.° 
Earle and redescribed by Underwood as P. flavosguamosus. The 
specimen thus described was growing on clayey soil in pine woods 
and was large and of advanced age, for it was in February that it © 
was found. Very young plants of this species were collected in 
the same locality by Bradford in December, 1900, which measured 
over three inches across, emitting when fresh a ‘strong unpleasant 
odor.” The indications are, judging from the meager knowledge 
at our command, that this attractive species is at home in the gulf 
states and grows but sparingly above the Carolinas. 
