428 MurRILL: PoLyPORACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
2. Scutiger retipes (Underw.) 
Polyporus retipes Underw. Bull. Torrey Club, 24: 85. 1897. 
The type collection of this species was made in Alabama in 
1897 by Mrs. F.S. Earle. The plants were found in autumn 
growing on the ground in pine woods. Collections were made 
later in Alabama by Earle and Baker. In color and stature this 
species resembles specimens of Polyporus ovinus sent from Upsala 
to Kew, but the pores are very much larger and the species are 
very distinct. 
3. Scutiger decurrens (Underw.) 
Polyporus decurrens Underw. Bull. Torrey Club, 24: 83. 
1897. 
This is a very distinct species, about which little is known. 
The type plants were collected by Dr. Hasse near Pasadena, Cali- 
fornia, growing in the soil on the side of a cafion. The collection 
was made in February, 1896, and no new collections of the spe- 
cies have been reported since. 
4. Scutiger cryptopus (Ell. & Barth.) 
Polyporus cryptopus Ell. & Barth. Erythea, 4: 79. 1890. 
A very distinct and interesting species found by Bartholomew 
in Kansas attached to dead grass roots in sandy pastures. The 
name refers to its habit of lying flat on the ground and thus con- 
cealing the stipe, in which position the pilei look like small whitish 
discs. 
5. Scutiger laeticolor sp. nov. 
A thick central-stemmed plant of rather large size with a 
smooth red pileus and orange-colored tubes. Pileus circular in 
outline, depressed at the center, 10 x 10 x 1 cm.; surface gla- 
brous, brick-colored to purplish-red, margin acute, at first inflexed, 
irregularly undulate: context fleshy-tough, pale rose-colored, 
’ homogeneous, 0.75 cm. thick ; tubes 1-2 mm. long, 5 to a mm., 
decurrent, rather dark orange throughout, mouth subcircular oF 
polygonal, dissepiments thin, toothed at times, especially when 
decurrent : spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, copious, 4 x 5-6 fF: 
stipe short, thick, increasing upward, 2 x I-2.5 cm., resembling 
the pileus in color, but solid, firm and tough, with darker flesh. 
The above description is made from a rather old and some- 
what faded dried specimen collected by Underwood in Alabama in 
