Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAH 119 
cm. long, 4-6 to a mm., brown within, mouths circular or polygonal, white to light-cinna- 
mon, edges obtuse, becoming acute: spores ovoid, obtuse at the summit, attenuate. and 
truncate at the base, verrucose, yellowish-brown, 9-11 X 6-8: stipe lateral, ascending, 
frequently forked, cylindrical, equal, 2-20 X 1-4 cm., resembling the pileus in color, surface 
and context. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York City. 
HasitTaT: On decaying trunks, stumps and roots of Tsuga canadensis. 
DISTRIBUTION: Nova Scotia to Virginia and west to Minnesota. 
ILLUSTRATION: Atk. Mushrooms f/. 66. 1900 
2. Ganoderma oregonense Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileug reniform, corky, rigid, convex above, plane below, 10175 cm.; surface 
glabrous, thinly encrusted, smooth, laccate, very lustrous, bay to black, with a deep groove 
near the margin, which is cream-colored, rounded, smooth, entire, finely tomentose: 
context punky, white to slightly discolored, homogeneous, with white lines of mycelium 
near the stipe, 2-3.5 cm. thick; tubes annual, 1 cm. long, avellaneous within, mouths 
circular to angular, 3 to a mm., edges thin, entire, white to avellaneous: stipe lateral, 
very thick, short, subcylindrical, 2-4 cm. long, 3-6 cm. thick, expanding into the pileus, 
which it resembles in color, surface and context. 
Type collected near Seaside, Oregon, on an old log of Picea sitchensis, during the summer of 
1905, by an unknown collector. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
3. Ganoderma Sequoiae Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus soft, tough, dimidiate, compressed-ungulate, subimbricate, convex above, con- 
caye below, 8145 cm.; surface at length glabrous, laccate, thinly encrusted, very 
uneven, undulate, concentrically sulcate near the margin, shining bay to nearly black; 
margin ochraceous, smooth, undulate, subacute: context punky, homogeneous, cremeous 
above, fulvous immediately adjoining the tubes, 2 cm. thick behind; tubes indistinctly 
stratified, 5-20 mm. long, grayish-fuscous to fulvous within, mouths circular to angular, 
rather large, irregular, 1-2 toa mm., edges thin, entire, cremeous to umbrinous, chestnut- 
colored when bruised. 
Type collected at Sequoia cafion, California, on a redwood trunk, December 28, 1902, Alice 
Eastwood 40. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
4. Ganoderma nevadense Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus soft-corky, very large, thin, applanate, dimidiate, 15-20 < 30-40 X 3-5 cm.; 
surface bay to black, sublustrous, laccate, thinly encrusted, the crust becoming cracked 
and falling off in flakes, leaving a glistening white membrane; margin nearly white, thin: 
context punky, homogeneous, white to straw-colored, subfulvous next to the tubes, 1-2.5 
em. thick; tubes perennial, 5-15 mm. long each season, fulvous within, mouths circular 
to angular, 2 to a mm., edges thin, becoming lacerate, white to fulvous. 
Type collected at Marlette Lake, Nevada, on a dead spruce trunk, August 15, 1902, C. & 
Baker 1489. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
5. Ganoderma polychromum (Copel.) Murrill. 
Polyporus polychromus Copel. Ann. Myc. 2: 507. 1904. 
Sporophore solitary or superimposed; pileus reniform, soft, 461-2 cm.; surface 
glabrous, thinly encrusted, azonate, uneven, laccate, sublustrous, fulvous to bay; margin 
obtuse, cremeous, sterile, uneven: context fulvous, darker below, homogeneous, punky, 
slightly zonate, 1 cm. thick; tubes annual, 5-10 mm. long, avellaneous within, mouths 
large, angular, irregular, 2-4 to a mm., edges thin, uneven, greenish-white to grayish- 
fuscous : spores obovate, subfuscous, 7-10“. 
TyprE LOCALITY: Searsville, California. ; 
HAaBItaT: Decayed trunks of Quercus and Salix. 
DISTRIBUTION: California and Nevada. 
