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5. Spongipellis fissilis (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Polyporus fissilis Berk. & Curt. Jour, Bot. & Kew Misc. 5: 234. 1853.—Grevillea 1: 50. 1872. 
Pileus dimidiate to flabelliform, subimbricate, elongate and decurrent behind, convex, 
4-6 X 7-15 X 1-2 cm.; surface white to isabelline, at length discolored, opaque, somewhat 
radiate-rugose, finely spongy-tomentose, setose or fibrillose to subglabrous; margin rather 
thin, fertile, undulate to lobed, discolored and inflexed when dry: context conspicuously 
zonate, fibrous, fissile, watery and white when fresh, rigid and hard, with an unpleasant 
odor, on drying, 5-10 mm. thick ; tubes 3-8 mm. long, white to isabelline, at length resin- 
ous and bay to black, mouths angular, 2 to a mm., edges thin, nearly entire, collapsing 
into a rigid mass: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 5 34; hyphae 5 4; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY : North Carolina. 
HABITAT: Decayed deciduous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 
6. Spongipellis luridescens Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus cémpressed-ungulate, subimbricate, sessile, dimidiate, plane below, 3X5 1-2 
cm.; surface smooth, spongy-tomentose, azonate, anoderm, isabelline to fulvous or fulig- 
inous; margin rather thick, either acute or rounded, entire, sterile, concolorous: context 
soft, punky, white to discolored, 3-5 mm. thick, 5-8 mm. long, white to isabelline within, 
darker near the mouths, which are circular to angular, sinuous and slightly irpiciform be- 
hind, 1-2 toa mm., edges thin, firm, corky, entire to lacerate, isabelline to fuliginous with 
age: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 3-4 K 1-2; hyphae 3 », yellowish-white ; cystidia 
none. 
Type collected at Hall’s Delight, Jamaica, 450 meters, on old stumps, October 25, 1902, #. S. 
Earle 114. : 
_ DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
7. Spongipellis hydrophilus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Polyporus hydrophilus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn, Soc. 10: 306. 1868. 
Pileus thin, somewhat cespitose, flabelliform, attached by a tubercle, fleshy and very 
watery when fresh, becoming rigid and contorted when dry, 2-3 3-5 & 0.2-0.4 cm.; sur- 
face isabelline, finely hispid-tomentose, zonate and concentrically furrowed near the margin, 
which is very thin, incurved and bay to black in dried specimens: context fleshy to rigid 
and hard, white to slightly yellowish, 1-2.5 mm. thick; tubes short, 1-1.5 mm. long, white 
to isabelline within, mouths minute, circular to angular, 6 to a mm., collapsing, edges 
thin, dentate, white to isabelline, glistening: spores smooth, hyaline. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HABITAT: On logs. _ 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba; British Honduras. 
8. Spongipellis galdctinus (Berk.) Pat. Tax. Hymén. 84. 1900. 
Polyporus galactinus Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 321. 1847. 
? Trametes maticola Berk, & Curt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 11.3: 209. 1856. (Type from Pennsylvania. ) 
Polyporus immitis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 35: 135. 1884. (Type from New York.) 
Pileus cespitose-imbricate, soft, spongy and watery when fresh, rigid and brittle when 
dry, dimidiate or reniform, elongate behind, applanate or convex, much contorted on 
drying, 3-5 X 5-10 X0.5-1 cm.; surface hispid or strigose-tomentose, white, azonate, 
smooth or slightly tuberculose, becoming isabelline on drying; margin thin, but often ob- 
tuse, sterile, entire, discolored and inflexed when dry: context zonate, firm, fibrous-woody 
below, spongy above, 3-7 mm. thick; tubes 3-5 mm. long, slender, white to isabelline, 
mouths minute, white, glistening, angular or slightly flexuose, 6 to a mm., edges very 
thin, lacerate-dentate, at lengthisabelline: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 3-4 X1.5-2 4. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Waynesville, Ohio, on rotten trunks. 
HapitaT: Dead or diseased trunks of deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Eastern Canada to Ohio. 
