Waite: Mr. Desert Funai 553 
Family HypDNACEAE. 
* HYDNUM ALBONIGRUM Peck. Found only in one locality. 
* Hydnum boreale Banker, sp. nov. Plant white to greenish, 
moist ; pileus thick, convex, undulate, 12-15 cm. wide; stem 
short, thick, flattened, the longer diameter three times the shortest 
(2 cm. by 7 cm.), 7 cm. long; teeth short, 5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. 
wide, the points rounded and somewhat knobbed when dry, decur- 
rent, brownish with white tips ; substance zonate within, the upper- 
most layer white spongy thick, the lower strata becoming darker, 
harder, and more compact, in the stem deep lavender color; my- 
celium purple, persistent ; odor unpleasant. 
In damp rich soil and leaf mould. 
HypNUM CARBUNCULUs Secr. (=H. ferrugineum Fr.) The 
peppery taste of this species has not been previously noted and is 
an important character. 
*Hydnum humidum Banker, sp. nov. Plant yellowish, be- 
coming brown, hygrophanous, pileus irregular, spongy, scrobicu- 
late, 9 cm. or more wide, stem stout, brownish, about 2 cm. long, 
1.5 cm. thick ; teeth long, 5 mm., brownish with white tips ; sub- 
stance corky, hard when dry and gray like weathered wood but 
with streaks and spots that appear darker and cartilaginous, which 
cut as if gummy, zonate internally ; odor strong but not unpleas- 
ant; taste mild. 
In hard-packed wooded path. The fresh plant exudes water 
freely when pressed between the fingers. 
Hypnum repaNpum L. Fairly common. 
*Hypnum scrosicutatum Fr. 
Hypnum zonatum Batch. 
Family PoLyPORACEAE. 
DAEDALEA CONFRAGOSA POLYPOROIDEA Peck.  Plentiful. 
Favotus atveotarius (DC.) Quel. Fairly abundant. 
PoLyporus ADUSTUS (Willd.) Fr. 
* POLYPORUS CARPINEUS Sower. 
PoLyporus caRNEUS Nees. 
Polyporus cHioneus Fr. 
Polyporus connatTus Wein. 
__* Potyporus conriuens (A. & S.) Fr. Plentiful. 
_ Poryporus evecans (Bull.) Fr. Fairly abundant. 
a POLYPORUS FOMENTARIUS (L.) Fr. 
