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15. Inonotus radiatus (Sow.) Karst. Rev. Myc. 3°: 19. 1881. 
Boletus radiatus Sow. Engl. Fungi pl. 196. 1799. 
Polyporus radiatus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1. 369. 1821. 
Polyporus cucullatus Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 51, 1872. (Type from New England.) 
Polyporus glomeratus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 78. 1873. (Type from New York.) 
Polyporus aureo-nitens Pat. & Peck; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 25. 1889. (Type 
from New York.) 
Poria seligera Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51: 293. 1898. (Type from New York.) 
Pileus corky to woody, imbricate, confluent, sessile, umbonate behind, especially when 
young, 3-5 X 6-9 X 0.5-1 cm.; surface radiate-rugose to very uneven, minutely velvety to 
glabrous, fulvous to ferruginous-fuscous or almost black behind; margin thin, pallid, 
undulate to lobed: context subzonate, ferruginous to dark-fulvous, 1-3 mm. thick ; tubes 
slender, grayish-umbrinous to fulvous, about 5 mm. long, mouths angular, somewhat 
irregular, 3-5 to a mm., edges whitish at first, becoming dark-fulvous with age, glis- 
tening, thin, fimbriate to lacerate: spores ellipsoid, Iuteolous, 4-6 X 3-4 u; hyphae 
2.5-3 fe. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Sussex, England. 
HapitTaT: Decayed alder, hazelnut, birch, and other deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Canada and the northeastern United States ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Sow. Engl. Fungi loc. czt. . 
Exsiccati: Krieger? Fungi Sax. #22; Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 509; Roum. Fungi Sel. 2402 ; 
Sydow, Myc. Mar. 1604, 4609, 3424; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 2110. 
61. PHAEOLUS Pat. Tax. Hymén. 86. 1900. 
Romellia Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 338. 1904. * 
Hymenophore large, irregular, annual, spongy to corky, epixylous ; stipe simple, 
variously attached, wanting at times; surface of pileus anoderm, hispid: context ferru- 
ginous; tubes irregular, thin-walled: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline; cystidia none. 
Type species, Phaecolus Schweinitzit (Fries) Pat. 
1. Phaeolus sistotremoides (Alb. & Schw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 32: 363. 1905. 
Boletus sistotremoides Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 243. 1805. 
Polyporus Schweinitzii Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 351. 1821. 
Daedalea epigaeca Lenz, Schwamme 62. 1831. 
Polyporus tabulaeformis Berk. Lond. Jour, Bot. 4: 302. 1845. (Type from Georgia.) 
Polyporus spectabilis Fries, Nov. Symb. 48, 1851. (Type from North Carolina.) 
Polyporus hispidoides Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 33: 21. 1880. (Type from New York.) 
Polystictus Schweintizti Karst. Rev. Myc. 39: 18. 1881. 
Cladomeris Schweiniizit Quél. Ench. Fung. 169. 1886. 
? Polyporus Spongia Fries, Monogr. Hymen. Suec. 2: 268. 1863.— Fries, Ic. Hymen. pl. 180, f. 2. 
~—Lucand, Champ. Fr. p/. 172. 
Pileus spongy, circular, varying to dimidiate or irregular, 15-20 cm. broad, 0.5-2 em. 
thick ; surface setose-hispid to strigose-tomentose and scrupose in zones, ochraceous-fer- 
ruginous to fulvous-castaneous or darker, quite uneven, somewhat sulcate, obscurely 
zonate; margin yellow, rather thick, sterile: context very soft and spongy, fragile when 
dry, sometimes indurate with age, flavous-ferruginous to fulvous, 0.3-0.7 (mm. thick; 
tubes short, 2-5 mm. long, flavous within, mouths large, irregular, averaging 1 mm. in 
diameter, edges thin, becoming lacerate, ochraceous-olivaceous to fuliginous, rose-tinted 
when young and fresh, quickly changing to dark-red when bruised: spores ovoid, hyaline, 
7-8 X 3-42: stipe central to lateral or obsolete, very irregular, tubercular or very short, 
reseinbling the pileus in surface and substance. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
HaBitaT: Trunks, stumps and roots of various coniferous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : North America; also in Europe and Asia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Fries, Ic. Hymen. p/. 179, f. 3. 
EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 7207; Thiim. Fungi Austr. 7208; i 
6773; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 2107. Beran ones eee nee 
