Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACHAE 101 
Tubes small, 5 to a mm., 1-3 mm. long each season. 1. F. supina. 
Tubes large, 1-2 toa mm., 3-5 mm. long each season. 2. F. fumoso-avellanea. 
1. Fomitella supina (Sw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 365. 1905. 
Boletus resupinatus Sw. Prodr, 149, 1788. Not Boletus resupinaius Muell. Fl. Dan. pl. 894. 1782. 
Boletus supinus Sw. F1. Ind. Occ. 1926. - 1806. 
Polyporus Valenzuelianus Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 398. pl. 15, f. 4. 1842. 
Polyporus guadelupensis Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 134. 1846. (Type from Guadeloupe.) 
Polyporus hemileucus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 312. 1868. (Type from Cuba.) 
Polyporus plebetus cubensis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 313. 1868. (Type from Cuba.) 
Polyporus subolivaceus Berk, & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 313, 1868. (Type from Cuba.) 
Polyporus venezuelae Cooke, Grevillea 15: 20. 1886. (Type from Venezuela.) 
Pileus rigid, corky to woody, dimidiate, thin, sessile, imbricate, plane or concave 
below, 4-6 & 5-10 X 0.5-1 cm.; surface finely tomentose to glabrous, azonate, smooth or 
rugose, varying from white to umbrinous, often blotched with purple or entirely purplish- 
black behind: context corky, zonate, greenish-isabelline to olivaceous, 2-6 mm. thick; 
tubes normally perennial, annual in many specimens, indistinctly stratose, 1-3 mm. long 
each season, isabelline to grayish-umbrinous within, mouths circular, rarely elongate, 5 to 
amm., edges rather thin'at maturity, entire but slightly uneven, isabelline to umbrinous: 
spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 44; hyphae 6x4. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Jamaica. 
HaBiTaT: Various forms of deciduous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern United States and tropical America. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba loc. cz. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1704, Ule, Myc. Bras. 47. 
2. Fomitella fumoso-avellanea (Romell) Murrill. 
Trametes fumoso-avellanea Romell, Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 26 (3)36: 37. 1901. 
Pileus corky, sessile, imbricate, decurrent, applanate, convex below, triangular in sec- 
tion, 2-4 * 5-10 X 1-2.5 cm.; surface anoderm, tomentose, uneven, azonate, opaque, dull- 
colored, avellaneous to umbrinous; margin usually thin, isabelline, rarely purplish-tinted, 
smooth, entire: context soft-corky, homogeneous, olivaceous-umbrinous, 5 mm. thick ; 
tubes indistinctly stratified, 3-5 mm. long each season, avellaneous to umbrinous, mouths 
angular, somewhat irregular, 1-2 to a mm., edges thin, entire, umbrinous, purplish-tinted 
in some specimens: spores obliquely ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 3.5-4-2; hyphae 
2-3 2; cystidia absent. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay. 
HaBiTaT: Dead trunks. / . 
DISTRIBUTION : Cozumel Island ; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; also in ‘Colombia and Paraguay. 
ILLUSTRATION: Bib, Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 26 (3)!6: A1. 2, f. 37. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Polyporus sordidus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. IIT. 2: 192. 1844. Collected on trunks in 
America. It bears some resemblance to /. supina. 
67. PYROPOLYPORUS Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 109. 1903. 
Mison Adans. Fam. 2:10; hyponym. 1763. 
Agaricon Adans. Fam, 2:10. 1763. Not Agaricus L. 1753. 
Phellinus Quél. Ench. Fung. 172. 1886. Not Phelline Poir. 1826. 
Hymenophore large, perennial, epixylous, sessile, ungulate or applanate; surface sul- 
cate, usually anoderm and often rough or rimose: context woody or punky, brown, rarely 
dark-red; tubes brown, cylindrical, stratose, usually thick-walled: spores smooth, fer- 
ruginous, rarely hyaline. 
Type species, Boletus igniarius L. 
Pileus thick, ungulate. 
Context light. to dark-brown. 
Surface brown or gray, often becoming blackish and rimose after several years. 
Surface finally blackish and often rimose with age ; species temperate. 
