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4, Coltricia spathulata (Hook.) Murrill. 
Boletus spathulatus Hook. in Kunth, Syn. Pl. 1: (9). 1822. 
Polyporus multiformis Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV.1: 125. 1854. (Type from Guiana.) 
Pileus small, coriaceous, multiform, varying from dimidiate to reniform or spatulate, 
or separated into several distinct lobes, 0.5-1.5 & 1-2. 5 0.10.2 cm.; surface narrowly 
zonate, silky, rarely depressed, flavous to ferruginous- -fulvous with igeuet or chestnut-colored 
zones ; margin flavous, very thin, undulate to lobed : context membranous, very ‘thin, flavous, 
with a black line near the surface, scarcely a mm. thick; tubes very short, exceedingly 
minute, not decurrent, less than 1 mm. long, mouths angular, stuffed when young, 
flavous to umbrinous, about 10 to a mm., edges thin, subentire: spores smooth, yellowish- 
brown: stipe lateral, excentric or erect, irregular, often branched, velvety, solid, tough, 
ferruginous to fulvous, 2-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Lochsa, Peru. 
HasitaT: On the ground or on dead wood in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mexico; Honduras; Bahamas; also in Peru, Guiana, and Brazil. 
EXSICCATI: Ule, Myc. Bras. 45. 
5. Coltricia tomentosa (Fries) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 346. 1904. 
Polyporus tomentosus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 351. 1821. 
Polyporus triqueter Fries, Epicr. Myc. 474. 1838. (Type from Sweden.) 
Polyporus circinatus Fries, Monogr. Hymen. Suec. 2: 268. 1863. (Type from Sweden.) 
Polyporus dualis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30: 44. 1878. (Type from New York.) 
Pelloporus tomentosus Quél. Ench. Fung. 166. 1886. 
Mucronoporus tomentosus Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 5: 28. 1889. 
Onnia tomentosa Karst, Finl. Basidsv. 326. 1889. 
Xanthochrous tomentosus Pat. Cat. Tun. 52. 1897. 
Pileus circular, varying to dimidiate, sometimes cespitose, 6-12 cm. in diameter, 3-5 mm. 
thick ; surface ferruginous-fulvous, azonate, rarely subzonate, tomentose, plane or depressed 
at the center; margin lighter in color, sterile, acute, entire to lobed: context duplex, soft- 
corky, concolorous and spongy above, corky-woody, fibrous and flavous-ferruginous below, 
2-4 mm. thick i tubes sometimes decurrent, ~bout 1 mm. long, avellaneous within, mouths 
small, equal, angular, 3-5 to amm., covered at first with a whitish substance, edges white, 
entire, becoming grayish-umbrinous, very thin and toothed with age: spores ellipsoid, 
smooth, thin-walled, pale yellowish-brown, 5-7 2-4; spines abundant, more or less 
curved, ovate- lanceolate at first, becoming more slender, fulvous-brown, 50-75 6-151; 
hyphae stramineous-fulvous, 2.5-5 #: stipe central to lateral or wanting, unequal, obese, 
fulvous, tomentose, resembling the context within, 0-5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Sweden. 
HaBITAT: Under coniferous trees, usually attached to coniferous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: North America ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jour. Myc. 5: OL. 8; Fries, Ic. Hymen. p/. 180, 187. 
ExsiceaTi: Allesch. & Schn. Fungi “Bavar. 51. 
6. Coltricia obesa (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 346. 1904. 
Polystictus obesus Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 125. 1897. 
Hymenophore simple or cespitose, sometimes connate; pileus circular, convex to 
depressed, 4-6 cm. broad, 5-10 mm. thick ; surface fulvous, tomentose, azonate, smooth 
or pelliculose ; margin yellowish-cinnamon, obtuse, becoming acute, entire or undulate: 
context homogeneous, soft, friable, fulvous, 4-8 mm. thick; tubes short, about 1 mm. 
in length, pale-avellaneous within, mouths irregular, circular to radially-elongate and 
slightly sinuous, 0.5-1 mm. broad, edges becoming acute and slightly toothed, white to 
fulvous: spores ellipsoid, smooth, ferruginous, 7-8'X4-5; cystidia none: stipe central, 
spongy, tomentose, fulvous, 4-6 cm. long, 5-15 mm. thick above, enlarged below, 1-3 cm. 
in thickness. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
HasitTaT: Attached to buried pine branches. 
DISTRIBUTION: Canada to North Carolina and west to Ohio. 
