Parr 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 18 
layers isabelline, the more recent avellaneous within, mouths minute, circular, 6-7 toa 
mm., edges rather thick, entire: spores subglobose, smooth, brown, 3-4; hyphae ferru- 
ginous; cystidia fulvous, cuspidate, ventricose, 10-20 X 5-7 x. 
Type collected in Missouri, on dead deciduous wood, August, 1885, C. H. Demetrio 19. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
4. Fomitiporella melleopora Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, inseparable, irregular, rigid, 3-5 mm. thick ; margin thin, undulate, slightly 
elevated, finely tomentose, flavous: context scarcely visible, fulvous ; hymenium uneven, 
‘rather distinctly stratified; tubes 2-4 mm. long each season, fulvous within, mouths circular, 
nearly regular, 5-6 toa mm., flavous to melleous when young, becoming umbrinous with 
age, edges thick, entire: spores globose, thin-walled, smooth, pale-ferruginous, copious, 
3-4; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none. 
Type collected near New Orleans, Louisiana, on dead willow logs in damp woods, February 
11, 1886, A. B. Langlois 213. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
5. Fomitiporella inermis (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill. 
Portia inermis Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1894: 322. 1894. 
Widely effused, inseparable, seceding with age, much elongated, corky, rigid, thin the 
first year, but reviving two or three years and attaining a thickness of 5 mm. or more; 
margin thin, adnate, determinate, undulate or lobed, conspicuous, sterile, nearly glabrous, 
flavous to ferruginous, becoming reddish-brown with age: context inconspicuous, fulvous; 
hymenium umbrinous to fuliginous, uneven, brightly glistening, 2-4 times stratified; tubes 
1.5-2.5 mm. long each season, fulvous to bay within, mouths angular, regular, 4 toa mm., 
edges thin, entire, sometimes uneven: spores globose to ovoid, smooth, ferruginous, 5; 
cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
HABITAT: Dead branches of various deciduous trees and shrubs. 
DISTRIBUTION : Eastern Canada to Louisiana and west to Michigan. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 323. 
6. Fomitiporella Johnsoniana Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, inseparable, suborbicular to irregular, rigid, 5 mm. or more thick; margin 
thin, flavous, narrowly sterile, undulate, nearly glabrous: context distinctly visible, 2-3 
mmm. thick in some places, fulvous, corky; hymenium uneven, stratified; tubes varying in 
length, 1-4 mm. long each season, avellaneous-umbrinous within, fulvous-tinted in the 
older layers, mouths angular, 5-6 toa mm., edges thin, entire or slightly dentate, flavous 
when young, becoming Iuteous and finally umbrinous at maturity: spores globose, smooth, 
brownish, 3-42; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none. 
Type collected at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on rotten deciduous logs, September 8, 1894, Z. WV. 
Johnson 1764. 
DISTRIBUTION : Michigan. 
7. Fomitiporella umbrinella (Bres.) Murrill. 
Poria umbrinella Bres. Hedwigia 35: 282. 1896. 
Broadly effused, inseparable from the matrix; margin undulate, opaque, hispid-tomen- 
tose, castaneous to umbrinous : context scarcely visible, brown, membranous ; hymenium 
indistinctly stratified, umbrinous, ferruginous-tinted when young, convex, smooth, glisten- 
ing; tubes long and slender, 5-10 mm., whitish-stuffed in the older layers, fulvous in the 
recent growth, mouths nearly circular, 5-6 to a mm., edges rather obtuse, entire: spores 
globose, deep-ferruginous, smooth, 4-5; hyphae ferruginous, 2-3; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY : State of Santa Catharina, Brazil. 
HasBitTat: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : Jamaica; also in Brazil. 
8. Fomitiporella Langloisiana Murrill, sp. nov. 
Effused, inseparable, subelliptical, irregular with age, rigid, 2-5 mm. thick; margin 
thin, adnate, irregular, narrow, ferruginous-fulvous : context very thin, fulvous ; hymenium 
