Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 89 
fimbriate to lacerate, hoary to dark-fulvous: spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, deep- 
ferruginous, 5-7 X 4-5.5; hyphae 2-6 pz. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. . 
HABITAT: Dead trunks or decayed spots in living trunks of beech, maple and other deciduous 
trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Maine to Alabama and west to Missouri. 
ExsiccaT1: Shear, N. Y. Fungi 720. 
11. Inonotus corrosus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 598. 1904. 
Pileus conchate, clasping, simple or imbricate, 3 5 1-4 cm.; surface ferruginous to 
fulvous, furrowed and much corroded in age; margin entire, obtuse, tomentose, honey- 
yellow: context thick, spongy, fibrous, ferruginous, perforated by insects soon after ma- 
turity ; tubes very short, only 1 mm. long each season, 8 to a mm., fulvous, subcylindrical, 
edges entire, obtuse to acute: spores lenticular, smooth, pale-ferruginous, 4 in diameter, 
14 thick; hyphae deep-ferruginous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Hope Gardens, Jamaica. 
HasitaT: Decayed vines and trunks. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Southern Florida; Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica. 
12. Inonotus Wilsonii Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 598. 1904. 
Pileus dimidiate, applanate, sessile, 2-3 4-6>0.5 cm.; surface anoderm, velvety- 
tomentose, fulvous, marked with a few shallow concentric furrows; margin thin, entire, 
concolorous, sulcate, deflexed in drying: context soft, punky, homogeneous, ferruginous- 
fulvous, 1-3 mm. thick, separated from the tubes by a very thin black layer; hymenium 
ferruginous, glistening; tubes 1-2 mm. long, 6-9 to a mm., isabelline within, mouths 
polygonal, regular, edges thin, entire: spores lenticular, smooth, pale-ferruginous, 3-4 ¢ 
in diameter, 1-1.5 # thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Honduras. 
HABITAT: Decaying logs. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
13: Inonotus amplectens Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 600. 1904. 
Pileus hemispherical, clasping, concave beneath, 1-3 cm. in diameter, 1-2 cm. thick ; 
surface soft, velvety, dark yellowish-orange; margin at first obtuse, entire, straw-colored, 
becoming thin, undulate or toothed, deflexed and concolorous: context soft, spongy- 
fibrous, ferruginous; hymenium at first honey-yellow, becoming umbrinous; tubes 24 
mm. long, 2-4 toa mm., larger by confluence, umbrinous within, mouths at first closed 
by a yellowish membrane, subcircular, regular, entire, becoming large, irregular, coarsely 
toothed and concentrically split into irpiciform plates: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 
1~2-guttulate, 4X 6p. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Ocmulgee River, Georgia. 
HasitaT: Living twigs of Asimina. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
14. Inonotus fruticum (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 601. 1904. 
Polyporus fruticum Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 310. 1868. 
Pileus soft, spongy, thin, dimidiate or vertically attached, 1-2.5 cm. broad, 2-5 mm. 
thick ; surface spongy-tomentose, azonate, flavous to fulvous; margin thin and undulate, 
becoming blackish when bruised: context flavous to ferruginous, spongy, 1-3 mm. thick, 
with a very thin, firm darker layer next to the tubes; tubes short, ferruginous to fulvous, 
about 1 mm. long, mouths angular to irregular, 3 toa mm., edges thin, toothed, ferru- 
ginous to fuliginous, hoary when young: spores subglobose, smooth, pale-ferruginous, 
3-4 fw. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
Hasitat: Small living branches of orange and oleander. 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba. 
