Part 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 21 
13. Coriolus balsameus (Peck) Murrill. 
Polyporus balsameus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30: 46. 1878. 
Pileus rather thin, but almost rigid, sessile, dimidiate, conchate, 2 2.5-3 X 0.1-0.3 
cm.; surface nearly plane, slightly and unequally villose-tomentose, especially behind, 
avellaneous, marked with isabelline zones; margin thin, incurved, entire or undulate: 
context white, fibrous, less than 1 mm. thick ; tubes short, white to pallid within, mouths 
small, angular, regular, 4-6 to a mm., edges thin, white, denticulate: spores not 
examined. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Adirondack Mountains, New York. 
Hapitat: Trunks of Abdzes balsamea. 
DisTRIBUTION: New York. 
14. Coriolus planellus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 649. 1906. 
Polyporus planus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31: 37. 1879. Not P. planus Wallr. 1833. 
Pileus very thin, leathery, somewhat fragile, circular to spatulate or flabelliform, nar- 
rowly attached, decurrent at times, 1-3 X 1.5-2.5 0.05 cm.; surface finely tomentose 
when young, becoming glabrous and slightly encrusted, conspicuously multizonate, isabel- 
line to umbrinous with brown or black zones; margin very thin, lobed, often somewhat 
proliferous: context pallid, membranous; tubes punctiform, white within, often more or 
less radiately arranged, mouths minute, angular, about 6 to a mm., edges white to slightly 
yellowish and finally discolored, very thin, easily splitting, denticulate: spores smooth, 
hyaline. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Greenbush, New York. 
HazitaT: Dead branches of deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Iowa, and Missouri. 
15. Coriolus armenicolor (Berk. & Curt.) Pat. Tax. Hymén. 94. 1900. 
Polyporus armenicolor Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 315. 1868. 
Pileus very thin, flexible, flabelliform, attenuate behind, 2-3 < 1.5-3.5 & 0.1¢em., surface 
multizonate, minutely longitudinally striate, shining, glabrous, radiately p..cate, at least 
when dry, isabelline, with fulvous or pale-bay zones; margin very thin, lobed or incised : 
context membranous, coarsely fibrous, white, less than 1 mm. thick; tubes less than 0.5 
mm. long, white to pallid within, mouths angular, minute, 7-8 to a mm., edges very thin, 
dentate, white when young, glistening, fulvous in dried specimens: spores smooth, hyaline. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HasitaT: Dead wood. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba and Jamaica. 
16. Coriolus brachypus (Lév.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 32: 646. 1906. 
Polyporus brachypus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 127. 1846. 
? Polyporus Feet Fries, Epicr. Myc. 476. 1838. (Type from Brazil.) 
Polyporus albo-cervinus Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 234. 1856. (Type from Brazil.) 
? Polyporus cervino-nitens Schw.; Berk. & Curt. Jour. Acad. Phila. II. 3: 224. 1856. (Type from 
Surinam.) 
Coriolus albo-cervinus Pat. Tax. Hymén. 94. 1900. 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, firm, flexible, imbricate, dimidiate to flabelliform, sessile or 
attached by a short tubercle, 4-6 X 5-12 X 0.2-0.4 cm.; surface glabrous or nearly so, 
slightly radiately furrowed, multizonate, pallid to isabelline, usually rose-tinted; margin 
thin, narrowly sterile, undulate or slightly lobed : context punky-fibrous, pallid, 1-3 mm. 
thick; tubes pale-roseous within, 2-3 mm. long, very even and regular, mouths slightly 
angular, 5-6 toa mm., edges thin, slightly dentate, tough, firm, white or rose-tinted when 
young, becoming avellaneous-roseous at maturity, fading in herbarium specimens: spores 
smooth, hyaline. ; 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guadeloupe. 
HasiTaT: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : Tropical America, from Southern Florida tu Brazil. 
EXSICCATI: Roum. Fungi Sel. 4805 ; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 2106. 
