Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 81 
edges obtuse, entire, lilac to umbrinous: spores smooth, hyaline; spines stout, cylindrical- 
conical, 15-20 x 4 4%. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Louisiana. 
HasitaT: Dead pine logs. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
3. Hapalopilus gilvus (Schw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 418. 1904. 
Boletus gilvus Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: oa 1822. 
Polyporus gilvus Fries, Elench. Fung. 104. 1828 
? Polyporus calvescens Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 390. 1839. (Type from New Orleans, Louisiana. )" 
Polyporus omalopitus Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 423. 1842. (Type from Cuba.) 
? Polyporus endozonus Fries, Nov. Symb. 54. 1851. (Type from the island of St. John.) 
Polyporus carneofulvus Berk.; ; Fries, Nov. Symb. 68. 1851. 
? Trametes Petersii Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 66. 1872. (Type from Alabama.) 
Polyporus breviporus Cooke, Grevillea 12: 7. 1883. (Type from Australia.) 
Polystictus purpureofuscus Cooke, Grevillea 15: 24. 1886. (Type from South Carolina.) 
Polyporus aureomarginatus P, Henn. Bot. Jahrb. 22: 72. 1895. (Type from Kamerun.) 
Pileus corky, dimidiate, sessile, imbricate, applanate or conchate, 3-6 x 5-10 X 0.5-1.5 
cm.; surface finely tomentose to glabrous, azonate, isabelline to fulvous, often marked 
with indistinct purplish-fuscous bands, rugulose to uneven; margin thin, ferruginous, entire 
to undulate, abruptly sterilé: context ferruginous, fibrous-spongy to corky, zonate, 3-7 
mm. thick; tubes short, slender, avellaneous to grayish-umbrinous within, 3-5 mm. long, 
often found stratified, especially in the tropics, mouths small, regular, circular to angular, 
6-8 toa mm., edges at first thick, pale-ferruginous, becoming thin, entire, glistening, 
olivaceous- Piscous to purplish-fuscous: spores elongate-ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 4-6 « 
2-4“; spines chestnut-colored, ovate-subulate, 15-20 K 4-5; hyphae 2-44. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Carolina. 
HasitTaT: Decayed wood of deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. 
Exsiccati: Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 3471, Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 607; Ellis, N. Am. 
Fungi 3/0, Rav. Fungi Am, #20. 
4. Hapalopilus licnoides (Mont.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 417. 1904. 
Polyporus licnoides Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 401. 1842. 
? Polyporus spurcus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 135. 1846. (Type from Guadeloupe.) 
Polystictus licnoides Fries, Nov. Symb. 92. 1851. 
Polystictus subglaber Ellis & Macbr. Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa 32: 192, 1896. (Type from 
Nicaragua. ) 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, flexible, imbricate, dimidiate, often narrowly attached, applanate 
or conchate, 3-6 X 4-8 0.2-0.5 cm.; surface multizonate, concentrically striate, finely 
tomentose to partially glabrous, rather smooth, subshining, fulvous, with bay zones; 
margin very thin, entire, ferruginous: context thin, ferruginous to fulvous, fibrose-spongy, 
1 mm. thick; tubes short, 1-2 mm., fulvous, glaucous near the mouths, which are very 
minute, regular, circular, 7-9 to a mm., edges thick, entire, pale-ferruginous to purplish- 
ferruginous: spores ellipsoid or subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 3-4>x'2-3%; spines subulate, 
chestnut-colored, 15-25 6“; hyphae 2-44. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HagiTaT: Dead wood of various kinds. 
DISTRIBUTION: Tropical America; Gulf States ; also in tropical Asia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba £2. 16, f. 2, 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Polyporus sordidus Berk.; Fries, Nov. Symb. 80. 1851. Not Folyporus sordidus Lév. 
Ann, Sci. Nat. III. 2: 192. 1844. Polyporus sordidulus Cooke, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 
13: 153. 1878. Described from Oersted’s collections in Costa Rica. Allied to A. gi/vus, 
but said to differ in tubes and trama. Type specimen not found. 
Polyporus dorcas Berk, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 9: 195. 1852. Described from San 
Domingo, collected by Sallé. It somewhat resembles Bjyerkandera subsimulans. 
