104 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLtumE 9 
cular, 4 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire, ferruginous to fulvous, glistening, the 
hymenium becoming much cracked in age: spores globose, smooth, ferruginous, 3-4.5 4; 
spines abundant, pointed, larger at the base, 15-25 K 6-10 #. : 
TYPE LOCALITY: New Jersey. 
Hasitat: Living trunks of species of oak and occasionally on beech. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Canada to Delaware and Missouri. 
ILLUSTRATION: Jour. Myc. 5: pl. 12. 1889. : 
EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ey N. Am, Fungi 370? ; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 401; Ellis, N. Am. 
Fungi 925. 
4. Pyropolyporus texanus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus woody, ungulate, broadly attached, plane below, 3X54 cm.; surface tomen- 
tose, smooth, melleons, becoming gray or black, glabrous and somewhat rimose behind ; 
margin very obtuse and rounded, melleous, tomentose, smooth: context woody, distinctly 
zonate, 2.5 cm. thick, melleous to dark-luteous with silky luster; tubes evenly stratified, 
not separated by layers of context, 5 mm. long each season, concolorous, without luster, 
mouths circular, 4-5 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire, melleous to fulvous: spores globose, 
smooth, hyaline, 3-44; hyphae ‘brown, 64; cystidia none. 
Type collected in Texas on Juniperus, 1900-1901, Ii. H. Long Jr. 327. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
5. Pyropolyporus Bakeri Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus woody, compressed-ungulate to applanate, dimidiate, slightly decurrent, 
4-10 < 8-20 * 3-5 cm.; surface smooth, anoderm, becoming glabrous, 2-3 times deeply sul- 
cate, isabelline to gray or umbrinous; margin very broad and rounded, ferruginous, finely 
tomentose, perfectly smooth: context woody, dark-luteous, somewhat shining, 1.5-2 cm. 
thick ; tubes distinctly stratified, 5-7 mm. long each season, avellaneous to fulvous within, 
mouths circular, 4 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire, light-yellowish to fuliginous: spores 
globose, smooth, hyaline, 5. 
Type collected at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, on black birch trunks, November, 1897, C. F. 
Baker 470. 
DISTRIBUTION : Wisconsin. 
6. Pyropolyporus roseocinereus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus woody, hard, applanate to compressed-ungulate, often vertically attached, 5-8 
x 7-14 X 2-4 cm.; surface tomentose, becoming glabrous, horny-encrusted, repeatedly 
zonate-sulcate, fulvous to reddish-brown ; margin acute, undulate, ferruginous, tomentose: 
context woody, very thin, light-fulvous, 1-2 mm. thick ; tubes indistinctly stratified, 1-2 mm. 
long each season, fulvous within, mouths circular, very minute, 5-6 toa mm., edges obtuse, 
entire, roseocinereous to smoky-gray: spores globose to ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 3-4 < 5-64; 
hyphae brown, 8; cystidia none. 
Type collected at Alto Cedro, Cuba, on dead wood in a dense virgin forest, March 19, 1905, 
F.S. Earle @ W. A. Murrill 561. 
DISTRIBUTION : Costa Rica ; Cuba. 
7. Pyropolyporus inflexibilis (Berk.) Murrill. 
Polyporus inflexibilis Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 199, 1856. 
Pyropolyporus crustosus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 113. 1903. (Type from Jamaica.) 
An ungulate plant of medium size with brown tubes, ferruginous substance and smooth 
encrusted dark-brown surface. Pileus woody, convex above, plane below, somewhat com- 
pressed-ungulate, 7125 cm.; surface glabrous, horny-encrusted, dark- brown, concen- 
trically sulcate, marked with narrow black concentric lines; margin rounded, yellowish- 
brown, sterile: context hard, concentrically banded, ferr uginous, 2 cm. (ince behind ; 
tubes indistinctly stratified, 0.5-1 cm. long each season, 5-6 to a mm., drab-colored within, 
mouths polygonal, concolorous, edges thin, acute, entire: spores globose to ovoid, smooth 
thin-walled, hyaline, 3.5-4< 4; hyphae darker; cystidia none, 
