4 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 9 
Tubes small or medium, 48 to amm. 
Species confined to temperate regions. 
Margin very broad, woolly-tomentose ; cystidia none. 3. F. subiculosa. 
Margin not as above; cystidia present. 
Species confined to coniferous wood. So. ae ae 
Found only on Juniperus. 4. F. juniperina. 
Found only on Abies. 5. &. marginella. 
Speeies confinéd to deciduous wood. . 
Spores obovate-oblong, 5 x 3. 6. F, ferruginosa. 
Spores subglobose, 2x. 7. F. fulvida. 
Species confined to the tropics. . 
Hymenophore 1 mm. thick. 8. Fi rufitincta. . 
Hymenophore 2.54 mm. thick. 9, FF. nicaraguensis. 
1. Fuscoporia carbonaria (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Hexagonia carbonaria Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 68. 1872. 
Effused, more or less separable, orbicular to irregular, coriaceous, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick ; 
margin elevated, sometimes obtuse, fertile, undulate or lobed, ferruginous to fulvous: con- 
text inconspicuous, fulvous ; tubes fulvous within, their cavities whitish-pruinose, mouths 
large, hexagonal, grayish-fulvous, 2 toa mm., edges thin, entire : spores smooth, hyaline ; 
hyphae pale-ferruginous, 2-3; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
HABITAT: On charcoal and burnt sticks in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : South Carolina and Florida. 
2. Fuscoporia viticola (Schw.) Murrill. 
Polyporus viticola Schw.; Fties, Elench. Fung. 115. 1828.— Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II, 4: 158. 
1832. 
Effused, much elongated, inseparable, coriaceous, flexible to fragile, 1-2 mm. thick ; 
margin determinate, thin, adnate, entire or lobed, ferruginous, finely tomentose, narrowly 
sterile, fertile with age: context conspicuous, fulvous, soft and pliable; hymenium plane 
or convex, ferruginous-fulvous to avellaneous or grayish-umbrinous, darker when bruised, 
irpiciforn in some specimens fiom the splitting of the dissepiments; tubes short, fulvous 
within, the cavities stuffed with grayish-white mycelium, mouths large and irregular, vari- 
able, often daedaleoid with age, averaging 2-3 to a mm., edges rather thick, firm, entire: 
spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 2.5-3.54; hyphae ferruginous, 34; cystidia long, slender, 
cuspidate, fulvous, abundant, 40-50 X 6-7 #. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Salem, North Carolina. 
HaBitat: Various forms of dead deciduous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : New England to South Carolina and west to Missouri. 
ExsiccaTr: Rav. Fungi Car. 1: 16; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 508; Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 7433 ; 
Ellis, N. Am. Fungi /7/; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 207. 
3. Fuscoporia subiculosa (Peck) Murrill. 
Polyporus subtculosus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31: 37. 1879. 
Broadly effused, separable, irregular, very soft and flexible; margin very broad, sterile, 
woolly-tomentose, adnate or somewhat free, ferruginous, irregular: context conspicuous, 
1-2 mm. thick, resembling the margin in all respects; hymenium thin, plane, slightly 
uneven, cinereous-ferruginous, brownish when bruised; tubes more or less oblique, 1-2.5 
mm. long, pale-isabelline within, mouths irregular, punctiform to angular, often somewhat 
daedaleoid, 2-3 to a mm., edges rather thin, uneven, entire to coarsely toothed: spores 
subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 4-6; hyphae ferruginous, 5-7“; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Copake, New York. 
HasitaT: Creeping over mosses, dead wood, and stones, in sheltered places. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
4, Fuscoporia juniperina Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, inseparable, oblong-elliptical to irregular, coriaceous to rigid, 1.5 mm. thick ; 
margin thin, adnate, broadly sterile, ferruginous, irregular, nearly glabrous: context incon- 
spicuous, ferruginous; hymenium slightly glistening, at length opaque, ferruginous to 
umbrinous, nearly plane, cracking with age; tubes pale-umbrinous within, mouths regular, 
