Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 105 
TYPE LOCALITY: Panuré, Brazil. 
HaBitaT: Dead trunks of trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Jamaica; also in Brazil. 
8. Pyropolyporus Calkinsii Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 113. 1903. 
A large ungulate plant, glabrous and furrowed above and uniformly hard and fulvous 
within. Pileus very hard, woody throughout, ungulate, 101010 cm.; surface gla- 
brous, dark-brown to black, marked with rather shallow concentric furrows, crust thin, 
horny, never rimose; margin rounded, concolorous with the hymenium: context very hard, 
woody, fulvous, 1 cm. thick; tubes in many indistinct layers, slender, minute, 7 to a mm., 
fulvous, mouths nearly circular, edges obtuse, entire: spores ovoid, hyaline, with thick, 
smooth, pale-ferruginous wall, 3-5 X 5-7; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Florida. 
HaBitaT: Living trunks of live-oak. 
DISTRIBUTION: Florida. 
9. Pyropolyporus Robiniae Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 114. 1903. 
A large fungus with dark rimose surface and tawny hymenium, very common on 
Robinia Pseudacacia, Pileus hard, woody, dimidiate, ungulate to applanate, 5-25 & 5-50 
X 2-12 cm.; surface velvety, smooth, soon becoming very rimose and roughened, fulvous 
to purplish-black, at length dull-black, deeply and broadly concentrically sulcate ; margin 
rounded, velvety, fulvous: context hard, woody, concentrically banded, 1-3 cm. thick, 
fulvous; tubes stratose, 0.15~0.5 cm. long, 5 to a mm., fulvous, mouths subcircular, 
edges entire, equaling the tubes in thickness: spores subglobose, smooth, thin-walled 
ferruginous, copious, 4-5; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 
HasitaT: On living trunks of Robinia Pseudacacia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Connecticut to Florida and west to Missouri and Texas. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 12: g/. 1-3. 1901. 
10. Pyropolyporus praerimosus Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 115. 1903. 
A large ungulate plant with plane brown hymenium and a very rimose blackish sur- 
face. Pileus woody, rounded-ungulate, 8-12 X 7-10 X 8-11 cm.; surface exceedingly 
rimose after the first year, broadly furrowed, the projecting ridges splitting away in age, 
very dark-brown to black; margin obtuse, velvety, rusty to hoary: context corky to 
woody, concentrically banded, fulvons, 0.5 cm. or less thick ; tubes indistinctly stratified, 
1-2 cm. long each season, 3 toa mm., concolorous within and without with the context, 
mouths rounded to polygonal, ochraceous at first, edges rather thick, obtuse, becoming 
thin and often splitting in age: spores globose, smooth, deep-ferruginous, 3-4; spines 
ferruginous, 10-17 < 5-10; largest at the base. 
TYPE LOCALITY: El Capitan Mountains, New Mexico, at an altitude of 2100 meters. 
Hazirat: Trunks of Quercus undulata. ; 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
11. Pyropolyporus Cedrelae Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus woody, hard, compressed-ungulate, broadly attached, plane below, 7-12 « 8-25 
X 3-7 cm.; surface tomentose, deeply sulcate, fulvous, becoming very rough, rimose and 
black with age; margin obtuse, ferruginous to fulvous, tomentose, smooth : context corky 
to woody, 5-10 mm. thick, fulvous; tubes evenly stratified, 2~3 mm. long each season, ful- 
vous within, mouths circular, invisible to the unaided eye, 5-6 to a mm., edges obtuse, 
entire, ferruginous to fulvous: spores globose, smooth, golden-brown, 5-6 4, concolorous 
with the hyphae. 
Type collected at Bluefields, Jamaica, on a living trunk of Cedrela odoraia, November 10, 1902, 
F.S. Earle 450. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
