88 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUuME 9 
sute or shaggy with dense branched fulvous hairs; margin usually thick, undulate, ochra- 
ceous-luteous, hispid: context radiate-fibrous, luteous, shining, 3-7 mm. thick ; tubes 
slender, 3-10 mm. long, dark-melleous within, mouths circular, 4-5 to a mm., regular, 
covered when young with a bright-yellow powder, edges thick, entire, flayous-mnelleous to 
melleous-fulvous : spores ovoid, thin-walled, pale-ferruginous, 6 X8#; hyphae concolorous ; 
spines dark reddish-brown, slender, conical, hooked at the tip, 10 # thick at the base, 60 pe 
or less in length. 
Type collected on Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica, 1950-2200 meters, on dead wood, 1 HebHaey, 
1903, L. M. Underwood 1522. 
DISTRIBUTION : Jamaica. 
7. Inonotus texanus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 597. 1904. 
Pileus ungulate, attached by the vertex, 3x5 X 2-4 cm.; surface hoary-isabelline to 
fuliginous, finely tomentose, concentrically and radially rimose, especially “with age, the 
separated areas imbricated ; margin thick to very obtuse, pallid: context corky, narrowly 
concentrically zonate, fulvous to umbrinous, iridescent, 1 cm. thick in young specimens, 
very thin in old ones ; tubes 1-3cm. long, 2-3 to a mm., fulvous to tawny-chestnut, mouths 
polygonal, pallid to fulvous, darker with age, edges thin, entire: spores ovoid, smooth, 
very dark-brown, 1-2-guttulate, 810 z. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Austin, Texas. 
Hasitat: Trunks of living mesquite trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Texas. 
8. Inonotus juniperinus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus firm, corky, sessile, narrowly attached, flabelliform, concave above, convex 
below, 6X 5X1 cm.; surface glabrous, somewhat rugose, subzonate near the margin, ful- 
vous-ferruginous, slightly marked with black; margin very thin, broadly sterile, glabrous, 
entire to somewhat eroded, fragile, pure-black in dried specimens: context fleshy-tough, 
fragile when dry, subshining, pale-ferruginous to umbrinous-fulvous, 5-7 mm. thick ; tubes 
short, very fragile, fulvous within, 1-2 mm. long, punctiform near the margin; mouths 
angular, 4 to a mm., glistening, chestnut-colored to black, edges thin, entire to fimbriate- 
dentate: spores globose, smooth, dark-brown, 3.5-5 4“; hyphae ferruginous, 3 x. 
Type collected in Texas, on buried roots of cedar, in 1900-1, W. H. Long Jr. 746. 
DISTRIBUTION : Texas. 
9. Inonotus jamaicensis Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 597. 1904, 
Pileus dimidiate to triquetrous, convex, sessile, attached by a broad base, simple or 
imbricate , 23 1-1.5cm.; surface encrusted, minutely rugose, cinereous behind, marked 
toward the margin with dark-brown or black zones; margin regular, often obtuse: context 
fibrous, fulvous, only a few millimeters thick ; tubes 1 cm. long, 4 to a mm., larger by 
confluence, fulvous, polygonal to irregular, edges thin, entire: spores ovoid, smooth, deep- 
ferruginous, 1-2-guttulate, very copious, 5X7 p. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mabess River, Jamaica. 
HasitaT: Dead branches. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
10. Inonotus perplexus (Peck) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 596. 1904, 
Polyporus perplexus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: 19. 1896. 
Pileus spongy-fleshy, fibrous, sessile, dimidiate to flabelliform, often filed attached- 
usually imbricate, somewhat laterally connate, 4-6 x 5-10 * 0.5-1 em:: surface hairy- 
tomentose to setose-hispid, grayish-tawny to ferruginous, azonate, Renn anoderm, 
becoming somewhat glabrous and subzonate with age; margin acute, sterile, pallid, 
entire: context tawny-ferruginous, subzonate, 2-3 mm. thick; tubes 3-5 mm, long, 
brownish-ferruginous within, mouths angular to irregular, 34 ss a mm., edges acute, 
