Parr 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 9 
recent growths, about 3 mm. long each season, mouths circular, 4 to ‘amm., edges obtuse, 
rigid, entire: spores globose, ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 4-5” long; hyphae subhyaline to 
pale-brown, 3-4; cystidia none. 
Type collected at Ciego de Avila, Cuba, on an old log in a field, March 21, 1905, #. S. Earle 
SW. A. Murrill 627. 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba and Costa Rica. 
4. Fomitiporia obliquiformis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Broadly effused, inseparable, irregular, rigid, heavy, 5-15 mm. thick; margin thin, 
adnate, narrow, ferruginous-fulvous, finely tomentose, slightly undulate: context incon- 
spicuous, ferruginous; hymenium convex, undulate, fulvous to avellaneous, very indis- 
tinctly stratified; tubes very oblique, 2-4 mm. long each season, ferruginous-fulvous and 
somewhat whitish-stuffed within, mouths oblique, subcircular, 4 to a mm., edges rather 
thick, entire : spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 6“; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none. 
Type collected near Cincinnati, Ohio, on hardwood logs, September 20, 1887, 4. P. Morgan 30. 
DISTRIBUTION: Pennsylvania and Ohio. 
5. Fomitiporia Langloisii Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, irregular, inseparable, rigid, 0.5-2 cm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, subbyssoid, 
sterile, luteous: context inconspicuous, fulvous; hymenium plane to convex, usually very 
uneven, distinctly and several times stratified, the young pores luteous, changing to ful- 
vous and finally umbrinous with a smoky pruinosity; tubes 2-3 mm. long each season, 
whitish-stuffed and avellaneous within, the layers separated by very thin cushions of ferru- 
ginous mycelium, mouths angular, 6 toa mm., edges thin, entire: spores globose, smooth, 
hyaline, 5-6; hyphae luteous; cystidia none. 
Type collected near St. Martinsville, Louisiana, on decaying pieces of deciduous wood in low 
woods, November 12, 1897, 4. B. Langlots 2525. 
DISTRIBUTION: South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. 
6. Fomitiporia tsugina Murrill, sp. nov. 
Broadly effused, irregular," adnate, seceding at times with age, rigid, of rather light 
weight, 5-10 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, irregular, narrowly sterile, ferruginous-ful- 
vousp finely tomentose: context quite conspicuous, ferruginous, fibrous; hymenium plane 
or concave, somewhat uneven, ferruginous to subfuliginous, suffused with a grayish pru- 
inosity; tubes indistinctly stratified, 2-4 mm. long each season, somewhat whitish-stuffed, 
ferruginous within, mouths circular, 4-5 toa mm., edges thick, entire: spores subglobose, 
smooth, hyaline, 6-8; hyphae ferruginous, 344; cystidia none. 
Type collected at Hebron, New Hampshire, on a dead hemlock trunk, August 6-19, 1905, Percy 
Witson, ; 
DISTRIBUTION : New Hampshire and New York. 
7. Fomitiporia prunicola Murrill, sp. nov. 
Broadly effused, extending many meters at times on standing trunks, inseparable, rigid, 
3-6 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, determinate, rarely seceding with age, nearly gla- 
brous, sterile, luteous to fulvous, entire or undulate: context conspicuous, fulvous; hyme- 
_nium even or undulate, ferruginous to dark-fulvous, at length ashy-white and finally black- 
ish-umbrinous in old weathered specimens; tubes indistinctly and several times stratified, 
whitish-stuffed and dark-fulvous within, 1-2 mm. long each season, usually oblique, mouths 
circular, minute, punctiform, 6-7 to amm., edges thick, entire: spores subglobose, smooth, 
hyaline, 3.5-4.5 #; hyphae ferruginous, 3 #; cystidia none. 
Type collected at ‘‘Camp Sunday,’’ Medford township, Piscataquis County, Maine, on dead 
trunks of Prunus-pennsylvanica, August 28, 1905, W. A. Murrill 1922. 
DISTRIBUTION: Maine, New Hampshire, and Ontario. 
8. Fomitiporia Earleae Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, subcircular or elongate and irregular, inseparable, rigid, 4-8 mm. thick ; 
margin thin, adnate, narrow, sterile, irregular, flavous to ferruginous: context thin, fer- 
ruginous to fulvous; hymenium convex, even or undulate, refracting the light, flavous- 
