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thick; tubes decurrent, white, becoming dark-orange within and without, 1-2 mm. long, 
mouths subcireular or angular, 5 to a mm., edges thin, fimbriate: spores ovoid, smooth, 
hyaline, copious, 5-6 X44: stipe short, thick, increasing upward, central or excentric, 2-3 
em. long, 1-3 cm. thick, resembling the pileus in color, but solid, firm and tough, with 
darker flesh. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Alabama. 
HABITAT: On the ground in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: South Carolina and Alabama, 
6. Scutiger caeruleoporus (Peck) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 429. 1903. 
Polyporus caeruleoporus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 68. 1874. 
Pilei gregarious or cespitose; pileus broadly convex, circular in outline, 2.5-5 x 0.7-1 
cm.; surface subtomentose, hygrophanous when fresh, isabelline to fulvous: context 
fleshy, fragile, white, becoming yellowish-white when dry; tubes decurrent, short, 3-5 
mm. long, grayish-blue when fresh, becoming latericeous within in dried specimens, 
mouths angular, irregular, 2-3 toa mm., edges thin, uneven, toothed, grayish-blue when 
fresh, becoming bay in dried specimens: spores not examined: stipe central or excentric, 
solid, concolorous or tinged with the color of the pores, 4-5 cm. long, about 5 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HaBitaT: On the ground in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : Vermont and New York. 
7. Scutiger holocyaneus (Atk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 429. 1903. 
Polyporus holocyaneus Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 117, 1902. 
Pilei gregarious or cespitose; pileus thin, convex to expanded, depressed with age, 
circular in outline, 2-6 cm. broad; surface deep-blue when fresh, becoming dull-brown, or 
dull reddish-brown when dry; margin irregular, undulate, smooth, hygrophanous: context 
fleshy, homogeneous; tubes light-blue and somewhat iridescent when fresh, becoming 
grayish-brown on drying, mouths rather large, angular, irregular, edges thin, lacerate or 
fimbriate: spores hyaline, smooth, 4-5 3-4; basidia 20-25 5-6: stipe even, reticu- 
late above, 5-6 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Blowing Rock, North Caro , a. 
Hasitat: On the ground beneath coniferous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
8. Scutiger radicatus (Schw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 430. 1903. 
Polyporus radicaius Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 155. 1832. 
Polyporus Morgant Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 34. 1879. (Type from Ohio.) 
Polyporus kansensis Ellis & Barth. Erythea 4:1. 1896. (Type from Kansas, on a decayed trunk.) 
? Polyporus hispidellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 52: 649. 1899. 
Pileus solitary, fleshy, convex or plane, circular in outline, depressed at the center, 10 
em. broad, 5-9 mm. thick; surface tomentose, subsquamulose, brown or reddish-brown ; 
margin thin, concolorous, incurved when dry: context soft, spongy, white, homogeneous, 
3-6 mm. thick; tubes decurrent, short, white to isabelline, mouths subcircular, 2-3 to a 
mm., edges thin, white or yellowish, entire: spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 
6-8 X 5; basidia 6-8 thick: stipe central, fusiform, cylindrical above, expanding into 
the pileus, elastic, solid, velvety, reticulate, pale-fulvous, black and rooting below. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pennsylvania. 
HasitaT: In woody earth or on much-decayed wood about stumps or dead trunks. 
DISTRIBUTION : Ontario to Pennsylvania and west to Kansas. 
ILLUSTRATION : Ohio Myc. Bull. 10: f. 46. 1903. 
9. Scutiger subradicatus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 430. 1903. 
A rather large thin plant with light-brown, almost glabrous, surface, small white ser- 
rated tubes and short black stipe. Pileus irregular in outline, convex to plane, 1290.5 
