10 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 9 
ferruginous to isabelline and finally pale-umbrinous, indistinctly stratified; tubes fulvous 
within, stuffed with pale-yellowish mycelium, 2-3 mm. long each season, mouths subcircu- 
lar, 5-6 toa mm., edges rather thick, entire: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, copious, 
5-6 #; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none. 
Z Type collected at Biloxi, Mississippi, on dead oak branches, September 13, 1904, Esther S. 
arle 65. 
DISTRIBUTION: Florida, Mississippi, and Texas. 
9. Fomitiporia undulata Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, inseparable, irregular, rigid, woody, 2-5 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, 
undulate, narrowly sterile, flavous to ferruginous, tomentose: context conspicuous, ferru- 
ginous-fulvous ; hymenium undulate, plane or concave, avellaneous, sometimes cinereous 
near the margin, indistinctly stratified in two or three layers; tubes oblique, 1-1.5 mm. 
long each season, whitish-stuffed, avelianeous to umbrinous within, mouths angular, 3-4 to 
a mm., edges thin, firm, entire, slightly tinged with flesh-color: spores ovoid, smooth, 
hyaline, 5 4; hyphae luteous, 3-4 u; cystidia none. 
Type collected near Punta Gorda, British Honduras, on the under side of a decayed log, 
October, 1906, Morton E. Peck. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
10. Fomitiporia cinchonensis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Broadly effused, irregular, inseparable, rigid, of medium weight, 3-6 mm. thick; mar- 
gin thin, adnate, determinate, lobed, very narrowly sterile, flavous-Iuteous when young, 
brownish-black with age : context conspicuous, dark-fulvous to latericeous ; hymenium con- 
vex, nearly even, grayish-umbrinous at maturity, melleous when very young, indistinctly 
stratified in 2-3 layers; tubes slender, whitish-stuffed, avellaneous within, 1-2 mm. long 
each season, mouths punctiform, circular, 5-6 to a mm., edges thick, entire: spores globose, 
smooth, hyaline, 2-3 «; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia dark-fulvous, cuspidate, ventricose 
at the base, 12-18 & 3-5 zu. 
Type collected at Cinchona, Jamaica, 1650 meters, on decayed deciduous wood, November 2, 
1902, F. S. Earle 411, 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
11. Fomitiporia pereffusa Murrill, sp. nov. 
Broadly effused, immersed, rigid, perennial, 5-7 mm. thick, frequently covering the 
entire under surface of logs; margin yery narrow, fulvous, puberulent, becoming tumid, 
somewhat inflexed, glabrous and blackish with age: context fulvous, very thin, scarcely 
apparent in older specimens; tubes regular, brown and glistening, 6-8 to a mm., several 
times stratified, the strata distinct and about 2 mm. thick, mouths subcircular, usually 
oblique, slightly cinereous with age, edges thick, entire: spores smooth, globose, hyaline, 
4-5 #; cystidia 15-20 & 5h. 
‘an collected at Ohio Pyle, Pennsylvania, on a dead oak log, July 7, 1905, W.A. Murrill 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario to Alabama and west to Minnesota. 
ExsiccaTI: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 667, Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2570. 
12. Fomitiporia Lloydii Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, elliptical or irregular, inseparable, rigid, rather light in weight, cracking in 
dried specimens, 5-8 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, irregular, sterile, scanty, ferrugi- 
nous, nearly glabrous: context inconspicuous, fulvous; hymenium somewhat uneven, 
slightly convex, ferruginous to fuliginous, opaque, distinctly stratified in 2-4 layers; tubes 
2-4 mm. long each season, umbrinous within, mouths angular or irregular, 5-6 to a mm., 
edges thin, entire or slightly toothed: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 5-6; hyphae fer- 
ruginous; cystidia none. 
Type collected in Ohio, on dead sassafras, C. G. Lloyd 2801. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ohio. 
