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4 to a mm., edges rather thin, obtuse, entire, chalk-white, becoming avellaneous: spores 
smooth, hyaline. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pennsylvania, on dead Syringa. 
Hapitat: Dead branches and timber of alder, witch hazel, sweet gum and other deciduous 
shrubs and trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Canada to Florida and west to Ohio. 
EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1597. 
6. Fomes subferreus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus corky to woody, conchate or applanate, imbricate, usually longitudinally effused, 
3-9 X 5-15 K 1-2 cm.; surface velvety, rugose-striate, slightly sulcate, black, with traces of 
purple, becoming glabrous and gray with age; margin subobtuse, pallid, marked with 
purplish-black blotches: context punky, isabelline, 0.5-1 cm. thick ; tubes unevenly strati- 
fied, 2-3 mm. long each season, glistening white, discolored in the older layers, mouths 
circular, 5 to a mm., edges obtuse, glistening, milk-white to avellaneous or isabelline: 
spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 3u; hyphae hyaline, 4; cystidia none. 
Type collected at Herradura, Cuba, March 7, 1905, on a decayed deciduous log in low woods, 
F.S. Earle & WA, Murrill 148. : 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba; Honduras; Costa Rica. 
7. Fomes ligneus (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea 13: 119. 1884. 
Polyporus ligneus Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 387. 1839. 
? Fomes hornodermus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 5: 368. 1856. (Type from Brazil.) 
Fomes sulcatus Cooke, Grevillea 12: 32. 1883. (Type from Demerara, British Guiana.) 
Pileus very hard, applanate or ungulate, 5-10 K 13-15 X 4-8 cm.; surface smooth, sul- 
cate, dark-brown or black, becoming horny-encrusted and shining with age; margin obtuse, 
pallid: context hard and woody, white to pale-umbrinous, 0.5-1 cm. thick, extremely scanty 
in old specimens ; tubes evenly stratified, 3-5 mm. long each season, white, mouths minute, 
circular, 3~4 to a mm., edges obtuse, white or slightly avellaneous: spores subglobose or 
ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 67; hyphae 64; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: The island of St. Vincent. 
HABITAT: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua; Costa Rica; St. Kitts; St. Vincent; Grenada; also in South 
America. 
8. Fomes annosus (Fries) Cooke, Grevillea 14: 20. 1885. 
Polyporus annosus Fries, Syst. Myce. 1: 373. 1821. 
Polyporus serpentarius Pers. Myc. Eur. 2: 82. 1825. 
Polyporus subpileatus Weinm. F1. Ross. 332. 1836. 
Polyporus resinosus Rostk.; Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 4: 61. 1838. 
Trametes radiciperda R. Hartig, Wicht. Krankh. Waldb. 62. 1874. 
Fomitopsis annosa Karst. Rev. Myc. 3%: 18. 1881. 
Polyporus Gillotii Roum.; Gillot, Rev. Myc. 4: 234. pl. 32. 1882. 
Heterobasidion annosum Bref, Unters. Gesammt. Myk. 8: 154. 1889. 
Polyporus trregularis Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 85. 1897. (Type from Auburn, Ala- 
bama.) 
Pileus woody, dimidiate, very irregular, conchate to applanate, 10-13 X 5-8 X 0.5-2 
cm.; surface at first velvety, rugose, anoderm, light-brown, becoming thinly encrusted, 
zonate, and finally black with age; margin pallid, acute, becoming thicker : context soft- 
corky to woody, white, 0.3-0.5 cm. thick; tubes unevenly stratified, 2-8 mm. long each 
season, white, mouths subcircular to irregular, 3-4 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire, frm, 
white, unchanging: spores subglobose or ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 X 4-Sp. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. 
HasitaT: Roots, lower parts of trunks, and stumps of various coniferous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: North America; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Fries, Ic. Hymen. p/. 186. f. 2; Sturm, Deuts. Fl. /. 29; Bref. Unters. 
Gesammt. Myk. p/.9. ; 
ExsiccaT1: Roum. Fungi Gall. 2207, 3117; Roum. Fungi Sel. 302, 7248; Cavara, Funghi 
Paras. 324, Allesch. & Schn. Fungi Bavar. 137, #32; Kunze, Fungi Sel. 7; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 
121; Romell, Fungi Scand. 1? ; Sydow, Myc. Mar. 403, 504, 1108, 3107 ; Rab. Fungi Eur. #05 ; Thum. 
Myc. Univ. 106. 
