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‘irregular, angular, with thin dissepiments, slightly decurrent, white, 
‘changing to greenish where wounded, yellowish when dry; spores 
oval or ovoid, 9 x 6 », with a single large highly refractive gutta. 
Growing in clayey soil, Auburn, Alabama, 23 Nov., 1896. 
Mrs. F. S. Earle. 
POLYPORUS IRREGULARIS 0. sp. 
Pileus irregular, more or less branching, brownish, paler to- 
wards the margin, uneven, subtomentose, with a thin imperfect 
crust, the under layer of which is darker colored, forming a deli- 
cate brown line in section; 4-6 cm.long, 3-4 cm. wide, the margin 
usually thin; context white, floccose-felty pores white, 5 mm. or 
more deep, irregular, more or less angular, small (0.25 mm.), the 
dissepiments rather thin, firm, even. 
Growing irregularly underneath a pine log, Auburn, Alabama, 
Feb., 1896. 
The older portions are ferruginous brown above, and the 
free margins, when developed, are thin and distinctly paler brown 
for a space of about 1 cm. The extreme margin is sterile, and 
the pores which are normally even, become irregular and oblique 
as the margin tends to become erect. 
Potyrorus MELIAE fn. sp. 
: Pileus convex, dirty white, subtomentose, anoderm, 5-8 cm. 
in diameter, occasionally coalescing; margin obtuse, sometimes 
extending nearly or quite around the pores; cortex floccose- 
corky, whitish; pores cream white, becoming darker with age, 
more or less rimose, 5-6 mm. deep, minute (about 0.2 mm.), the 
dissepiments firm, slightly uneven, usually with obtuse edges; 
Spores narrowly oblong, 6x3, hyaline. 
On branches of Mea Azederach, Auburn, Alabama, Oct., 1895. 
In very old specimens the layer of pores becomes cracked in 
all directions and very much discolored. 
POLYPORUS RETIPES N. Sp. 
Terrestrial; stem excentric, 4-6cm. long, 2cm or more thick, 
yellowish-white towards the base; pileus 6-15 cm. each way, 
brown, appressed tomentose, finely areolate-rimose so as to appear 
finely mottled; context fleshy, rather thick (2 cm. or more) be- 
coming quite thin in drying, whitish ; margin acute; pores de- 
current half the length: of the stem, shallow, whitish, large (1.5 
mm. or more), mostly hexagonal, the dissepiments thin and finely 
lacerate. : as 
