Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 91 
62. COLTRICIELLA Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 348. 1904. 
Hymenophore small, annual, tough, epixylous; stipe attached to the vertex of the 
pileus ; surface of the pileus anoderm, zonate: context spongy, fibrous, ferruginous; tubes 
angular, one-layered, dissepiments thin: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, ferruginous. 
Type species, Polyporus dependens Berk. & Curt. 
1. Coltriciella dependens (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 348. 1904. 
Polyporus dependens Berk. & Curt. Ann. Nat. Hist. II, 12: 431. 1853.—Grevillea 1: 37, 1872. 
Polysticius dependens Sacc. Syl. Fung. 6: 213. 1888. 
Hymenophore gregarious or cespitose ; pileus very small, conical, pendant, vertically 
attached, 1-2 cm. broad, about 1 cm. thick; surface cinnamon-colored, soft, elongate- 
striate, sericeous, subzonate; margin acute, fibrillose: context spongy, very thin, ferru- 
ginous-fulvous, 1-2 mm. thick; tubes long, 5-8 mm., fulvous, mouths large, angular, 1-2 
to a mm., smaller near the margin, edges thin, toothed, yellowish to fulvous: spores 
ellipsoidal, smooth, ferruginous, 7-8 X 3.54: stipe central, attached at the vertex, 
cylindrical, gradually enlarging as it approaches the pileus, about 1 cm. long, 1-3 mm. 
thick, resembling the pileus in surface and substance. 
TYPE LocALITY : South Carolina. 
HasitatT: Decorticated pine wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 
63. COLTRICIA (Micheli) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr: Brit. 
Pl. 1: 644. 1821. 
Strilia $. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 645. 1821. 
Pelloporus Quél. Ench. Fung. 166. 1886. 
Mucronoporus Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 5: 28. p2.8. 1889. 
Onnia Karst. Finl. Basidsv. 326. 1889. 
AXanthochrous Pat. Cat. Tun. 51. 1897. 
Hymenophore annual, terrestrial or humus-loving, simple, small to medium, usually 
circular and central-stemmed ; surface anoderm, brown, zonate or azonate : context yellow- 
ish or brown, coriaceous to spongy; hymenium concolorous, covered with yellowish or 
whitish powder when young; tubes thin-walled, at length fimbriate: spores smooth, 
rounded, yellowish-brown ; cystidia rarely present. 
Type species, Coltricia connata S. F. Gray. 
Pileus concentrically zonate ; context very thin. 
Pileus regularl circular in outline, 
Pileus shining-cinnamon, strigose, striate, thin, flexible, slightly de- 
pressed, the margin often fimbriate or pseudo- ciliate, 1. C. cinnamomea, 
Pileus dull rusty-ciunamon to hoary, velvety to glabrous, deeply 
depressed, the margin thicker and less fimbriate. 
Tubes small, 0.5 mm. or less in diameter. 2. C. perennis. 
Tubes large, 1mm. in diameter. 3. C. focicola. 
Pileus irregular and variable in outline, dimidiate, reniform or spatulate, 
or separated into several lobes; confined to the tropics. 4, C. spathulata, 
Pileus usually azonate ; context rather thick and spongy. 
Context duplex, soft above and woody below ; hymenium beset with spines. 5. C. tomentosa. 
Context homogeneous ; hymenium free from spines. 
Pileus ferruginous to fulvous, 5 cm. in diameter ; surface finely tomen- 
tose ; stipe swollen and soft at the base. 6. C. obesa. 
Pileus darker, fulvous to chocolate-colored, 10 cm. in diameter ; surface 
rough and shaggy ; stipe scutate and firm at the base. 7. C. Memmuingeri. 
1. Coltricia cinnamomea (Jacq.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 343. 1904. 
Boletus cinnamomeus Jacq. Coll. 1: 116. 1786. 
Strilia cinnamomea S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 645. 1821. 
Polyporus parvulus Klotzsch, Linnaea 8: 483, 1833. (Type from boreal North America.) Not P. 
parvulus Schw. 1832. 
Polyporus oblectans Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 51. 1845. ,(Type from Australia.) 
