Part 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 65 
margin thick, concolorous, inflexed: context white or slightly yellowish, fleshy, firm, 
rather hard when dry, with a strong unpleasant odor when fresh, 1 cm. or more thick; 
tubes subdecurrent, 3-5 mm. long, mouths large, 1-2 toa mm., irregular, angular, edges 
thin, white to yellowish, changing to greenish where wounded: spores ovoid, smooth, 
hyaline, 9 6: stipe lateral or excentric, slightly flattened, irregularly roughened, solid, 
subreticulate, dark-yellow, hard and corky within, 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
HapitaT: Clayey soil in low woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey, South Carolina, and Alabama. 
2. Scutiger retipes.(Underw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 428. 1903. 
Polyporus retipes Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 85. 1897. 
Pileus reniform to circular, convex, 6-15 cm. broad, 1-2.5'cm. thick ; surface umbrinous 
to fuliginous, appressed tomentose, finely areolate-rimose, appearing papillate when dry; 
margin acute, concolorous, inflexed when dry: context fleshy, white, 2 cm. thick when fresh, 
becoming quite thin on drying; tubes decurrent half the length of the stem, large, shallow, 
1-2 mm. broad, mostly hexagonal, edges thin, whitish, finely lacerate: spores smooth, 
hyaline: stipe excentric, yellowish-white toward the base, white and fleshy within, 4-6 em. 
long, 2. cm. or more thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Auburn, Alabama. 
HapitTaT: On the ground in pine woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Alabama. 
3. Scutiger decurrens (Underw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 428. 1903. 
Polyporus decurrens Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 83. 1897. 
Pileus nearly circular in outline, plane or slightly depressed at the center, centrally 
stipitate, 550.5 cm.; surface very thinly encrusted, brown or bay, rough, imbricate- 
tuberculose; margin thin, concolorous, sharply inflexed when dry: context white, fragile, 
homogeneous, 3-5 mm. thick ; tubes white to alutaceous within, about 2 mm. long, decur- 
rent nearly to the base of the stem, mouths angular, 2 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire, 
slightly uneven, white to isabelline: spores smooth, hyaline: stipe bulbous at the base, 
tapering above, reticulate, slightly darker than the hymenium, 3 cm. or more long, 1-1.5 
em. thick. © 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pasadena, California. 
HaBitTAT : In the soil on the side of a cafion. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
4, Scutiger cryptopus (Ellis & Barth.) Murrill Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 428. 1903. 
Polyporus cryptopus Ellis & Barth. Erythea 4: 79. 1896. 
Pileus circular, convex, 3-7 cm. broad, 3-4 mm. thick; surface glabrous, very smooth, 
white or slightly grayish; margin very thin, inflexed when dry, concolorous, entire: con- 
text white, homogeneous, 1-2 mm. thick; tubes white or yellowish, 1-2 mm. long, slightly 
decurrent, mouths angular, large, 1-2 to a mm., edges thin, entire or fimbriate: spores 
ellipsoid, pointed, smooth, hyaline, 5-7 3-4: stipe central, bulbous at the base, cylin- 
drical, darker than the pileus, 1.5-2 cm. long, 3-7 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Kansas. . 
Hasitrat: Attached to dead grass roots in sandy pastures. 
DISTRIBUTION : Kansas and Nebraska. 
5. Scutiger laeticolor Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 428. 1903. 
Pileus circular in outline, often irregular, convex, depressed at the center, 10-20 cm. 
broad, about 1 cm. thick; surface smooth, becoming glabrous, pale dingy-yellow when 
fresh, brick-colored to purplish-red in old dried plants; margin acute, inflexed at first, 
irregularly undulate: context fleshy-tough, homogeneous, pale rose-colored, 5-10 mm. 
