450 SHEAR: MycoLocicAL NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 
pine bark in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but his description and 
plate agree so closely with these specimens and with other material 
determined by Ellis and Rehm that there seems little doubt about 
the matter. Ellis issued the species (no. 1246 N. A. F. on bark 
of Abies Menziesti from Colorado) as Peziza fuscosanguinea Rehm, 
but Dr. Rehm doesnot regard it as his species. The typical plant, 
so far as agreement with Phillips’ description and figure goes, was 
issued by the writer in F. Col. no. 1414. It was collected in 
_ the Powder River Mountains of eastern Oregon, growing abun- 
dantly on the bark of recently cut pines. The plant is rather fre- 
quent on bark of various dead conifers in the West, especially in 
subalpine regions. 
Cryptoporus gen. nov. 
Cryptoporus Peck as a section of Placodermei of the genus Poly- 
porus, Bull. Torrey Club, 7: 104. Oct. 1880. 
The type of the genus is Cryptoporus volvatus (Peck). /% oly 
porus volvatus Peck, Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. 2'7: 98. pl. 2.f. 3-5 
1875. 
Three varieties were described by Professor Peck, only one of 
which appears to us of varietal importance, Cryptoporus vol- 
vatus Torreyi (Ger.). Polyporus volvatus Torreyi Gerard, Bull. 
Torrey Club, '7: 104. f. 7-3. O. 1890. 
This fungus is so different from any other Polyporus, especially 
in the thick volva-like extension of the margin of the pileus which 
covers the pores with the exception of a small circular aperture, as 
to deserve in our opinion generic rank. Professor Peck, 1. c., has 
given a very full description of the fungus to which we need only 
add the following extension of range and new hosts : 
Vicinity of Washington, D. C., on Pinus Virginiana, collected 
by the late G. H. Hicks, also by the writer. 
Grand Lake, Colorado, on Pinus contortus Murrayana, 1 
1107, Shear & Bessey. 
Blue Mountains, Oregon, on undetermined conifer, co 
by the writer, r899. 
llected 
Secotium Arizonicum Shear & Griffiths sp. nov: 
Peridium subglobose to subpyriform, pale yellowish-whit®, 
smooth, 2-4 cm. high x 1.5=3 cm. in diameter, rather thin 
