Parr 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 67 
cm.; surface fibrillose, drab-colored to isabelline; margin very thin, inflexed when young, 
irregularly undulate at maturity: context fleshy-tough, 1-7 mm. thick, pure milk-white 
even when dry; tubes mere areoles at first, short and small at maturity, scarcely 1 mm. in 
length, 3-4 to a mm., decurrent to the blackened part of the stipe, white, yellowish when 
dry, mouths polygonal, regular, at length much elongate by confluence or otherwise 
irregular, edges thin, toothed or fimbriate when mature : spores ovate to ellipsoidal, smooth, 
hyaline, not abundant, 3-4 < 5-7: stipe short, thick, central, tapering and attached at the 
base, sooty-black up to the pores, 4 2.5 cm.; context milk-white, firm, fleshy-tough, sur- 
face minutely tomentose, rugose-reticulate when dry. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HapitaT: Attached to buried dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario and New York. 
10. Scutiger griseus (Peck) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 431. 1903. 
Polyporus griseus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 68. 1874, 
Polyporus Larlet Underw. Bull. Torrey Club. 24: 84. 1897. (Type from Alabama.) 
Pileus circular, often irregular, convex, 7-12 cm. broad, 1 cm. or less thick ; surface . 
glabrous or minutely tomentose, cinereous, slightly darker towards the center; margin 
thin, concolorous, often incurved on drying, irregular, undulate to lobed: context soft- 
fleshy, rosy-gray, about 5 mm. thick; tubes slightly decurrent, 1-2 mm. long, whitish- 
stuffed when young, white to pale-umbrinous within, mouths subangular, unequal, 2-4 to 
a mm., edges thin, entire to fimbriate, lacerate with age, white when young, becoming 
gray or umbrinous: spores subglobose, hyaline, echinulate, 5-6 X4.5-5: stipe central, 
thick, short, bulbous at the base, with surface and substance resembling that of the pileus, 
but darker in color, 4-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 em. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HaBitTaT: On the ground in open deciduous or coniferous woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York, New Jersey, and Alabama. 
11. Scutiger persicinus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 431. 1903. 
Polyporus persicinus Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 37. 1872. 
Pilei confluent; pileus soft, slightly elastic, pulvinate, often oblique, very thick, some- 
what depressed, 10-25 cm. broad, 1-2 cm. thick; surface fulvous-brown, becoming purple 
at times, short-tomentose; margin lobed or undulate, very obtuse: context white, with 
black lines marking the seasons of growth in dried specimens, watery-spongy, reddish, 
dark-purple in the cuticle in fresh specimens, fading to pale-lavender; tubes decurrent, 
white when fresh, brownish-black in dried specimens, 2-3 mm. long, mouths angular, 2 to 
amm., edges thin, lacerate: spores not seen: stipe central, thick, conical, dark-purple, 5 
cm. long, 4-8 cm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina, 
HaBiTaT: At the base of trunks in pine woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
12. Scutiger Whiteae Mutrrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 432. 1903. 
Pilei cespitose, often confluent at the base, all stages of development being found in 
one cluster; pileus subcircular in outline, convex, depressed at the center, 8-12 0.5-1 
cm.; surface pruinose, velvety to the touch, isabelline to fulvous; margin acute, at first 
inflexed, irregularly undulate at maturity: context fleshy-tough, 0.2-0.5 cm. thick, of 
nutty flavor, rose-tinted when dry, dark-red next to the tubes; tubes 0.1-0.3 cm. long, 3 
to amm., very decurrent, white when young and fresh, rose-colored when bruised or dried, 
mouths circular or subcircular, edges thin, fimbriate: spores ovoid, hyaline, smooth, copi- 
ous, 3.55: stipe short, usually excentric, enlarged at the base, 3 2-4 cm., concolor- 
ous, tough. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bar Harbor, Maine. 
HABITAT: Among moss on a damp river bank. 
DISTRIBUTION : Maine and New Hampshire. 
