92 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 9 
Polyporus splendens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 68. 1874. (Type from New York.) 
Dibba Gees ae Rep o state Mus. 33: 37. 1880. (Type from New York.) 
Pileus coriaceous, thin, circular, umbilicate, sometimes deeply so, 1-4 cm. in diameter, 
1-2 mm. thick; surface bright-cinnamon, cinereous, shining, strigose-striate, zonate ; 
margin undulate to slightly lobed, fimbriate, concolorous: context membranous, concolorous, 
less than a mm, thick; tubes pale-umbrinous within, 1-2 mm. long, slightly decurrent, 
mouths rather large, angular, ferruginous to fulvous, 2-3 to a mm., edges thin, fimbriate- 
dentate, collapsing with age: spores ellipsoid, pale yellowish-brown, smooth, 6-8 X 4-64; 
hyphae 3-8 #: stipe central, velvety, reddish-fuscous, nearly equal, 2-4 em. Jong, 3-5 mm. 
thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Austria. 
Hasitat: Mossy soil or decayed wood almost reduced to humus. 
DISTRIBUTION : Cosmopolitan. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Coll. f/. 2; Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi /. 182. 
ExsIccaTI: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1201. 
2. Coltricia perennis (L.) Murrill, Jour. Myc. 9: 91. 1903. 
Boletus pevennis ¥,. Sp. Pl. 1177. 1753. 
Boletus coriaceus Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 2: 465. 1772. 
Boletus sublomentosus Bolt. Hist. Fung. 2: 87. pl. 87. 1788. 
Boletus confluens Schum. Enum. Pl. Saell. 2: 378. 1803. 
Polyporus perennis Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 350. 1821. 
Coltricia connaia 8. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 644. 1821. 
Polystictus perennis Karst. Rev. Myc. 39: 18. 1881. © 
Pelloporus perennis Quél. Ench. Fung. 166. 1886. 
Pileus coriaceous, circular, infundibuliform, 3-6 cm. broad, 1.5-3 mm. thick ; surface 
zonate, short-tomentose, substriate, ferruginous to cinereous, the zones sometimes glabrous 
and chestnut-colored; margin very thin, entire to lacerate, inflexed when dry: context 
very thin, concolorous, scarcely a mm. thick; tubes short, grayish-umbrinous within, 1-3 
mm. long, mouths small, angular, 2-4 toa mm., whitish when young, becoming fulvous, 
edges thin, dentate to lacerate, soon collapsing: spores ovoid, smooth, pale yellowish- 
brown, 4-6 X 2-3.5: stipe bulbous and often united with that of neighboring plants at 
the base, tapering upward, velvety, ferruginous to fulvous, solid, corky, 3-5 cm. long, 2-5 
mm. thick. 
TYPE Locality: Sweden. : 
HaxiraT: Dry exposed soil in woods, especially where fires have been kindled. 
DISTRIBUTION : Temperate regions of the northern hemisphere ; south in the United States 
to Virginia. . 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sow. Engl. Fungi f/. 192; Bull. Herb. Fr. pl. 28. 
EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 602; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1701; Karst. Finl. 
Fungi 717; Shear, N. Y. Fungi 29; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 2108 ; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 224; Sydow, 
Myc. Mar. 211; Rab. Fungi Eur. 2203; Romeil, Fungi Scand. 7/4, Linhart, Fungi Hung. 4/8. 
3. Coltricia focicola (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Polyporus connatus Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 154. 1832. Not Coliricia connata S. F. 
Gray, 1821. 
Polyporus focicola Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 305. 1868. 
Coltricta parvula Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 345, in part. 1904. Not Polyporus parvulus 
Kotzsch. : 
Pilens membranaceous, circular, umbilicate, 3-6 cm. in diameter, 0.5-1 cm. thick; 
surface velvety, cinnamon to cinereous, multizonate; margin thin, entire or undulate: 
context very thin, ferruginous to fulvous, scarcely 1 mm. in thickness; tubes long, ample, 
ferruginous to fulvous within, 5-8 mm. long, mouths 1-2 mm. in diameter, angular, ful- 
vous, edges thin, toothed, becoming lacerate and collapsed with age, causing the pores to 
appear much smaller than they really are: spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish- 
brown, abundant, 1-guttulate, 6X 3.5: stipe central, cylindrical, slightly enlarged at the 
base, velvety, ferruginous to fulvous, solid, corky, 2-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY : North Carolina. 
HaBitaT: Burnt soil in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : Connecticut to Alabama. 
ExsiccaTi: Rav. Fungi Car. 1: 8; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 305. 
