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6. Ganoderma Curtisii (Berk.) Murrill. 
Polyporus Curtisii Berk. Hook. Jour. Bot. 1: 101. 1849. 
Pileus corky to woody, reniform, convex above, concave below, 5-10 & 8-15 & 1-2 cm. ; 
surface glabrous, ochraceous to latericeous or bay, at first laccate, the varnish soon disap- 
pearing, broadly sulcate; margin obtuse to truncate, sulcate, ochraceous, entire, glabrous 
context soft-corky, zonate, ochraceous above, fulvous below, 5 mm. thick; tubes perennial, 
indistinctly stratified, 5-8 mm. long each season, avellaneous-umbrinous within, mouths 
circular to slightly angular, 3-5 to a mm., edges entire, white or cremeous, becoming 
umbrinous: spores ovoid, attenuate and truncate at the base, yellowish-brown, verrucose, 
9-11 5-6: stipe usually excentric or lateral, erect or ascending, equal, or slightly 
enlarged above, cylindrical, bay, laccate, the substance similar to the context and darker 
at the center, 5-10 & 2-3 cm. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. ‘ 
Hasirat : Stumps and trunks of oak, sweet gum, maple, and other deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to Florida and west to Texas. . a 
Exsiccatr: Rav. Fungi Am. J, 47; Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 3470; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 302. 
7. Ganoderma sessile Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 604. 1902. 
A variable plant with wrinkled varnished cap and acute margin, found on decaying 
deciduous trees. Pileus corky to woody, dimidiate, sessile or stipitate, imbricate or connate 
at times, conchate to fanshaped, thickest behind, thin at the margin, 5-15 & 7-25 X 1-3 em.; 
surface glabrous, laccate, shining, radiate-rugose, concentrically sulcate, yellow to reddish- 
chestnut, at length opaque, dark-brown usually marked near the margin with alternating 
bay and tawny zones; margin usually very thin and acute, often curved downward, often 
undulate, rarely becoming truncate, white, at length concolorous: context soft-corky or 
woody, radiate-fibrous, concentrically banded, ochraceous-fulvous; tubes 0.5-2 cm. long, 
3-5 to a mm., brown within, mouths circular or angular, white or grayish-brown, edges 
thin, entire: spores ovoid, obtuse at the summit, attenuate and truncate at the base, ver- 
rucose, yellowish-brown, 9-11 * 6-8: stipe laterally attached, usually ascending, irregu- 
larly cylindrical, 14 0.5-1.5 cm., resembling the pileus in color, surface and substance, 
often obsolete. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HaBitTaT: On decaying wood of deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Connecticut to Missouri, Alabama, and Louisiana. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 202. 
8. Ganoderma zonatum Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 29: 606. 1902. 
A soft laccate fungus of medium size marked with numerous tawny and chestnut-colored 
zones. Pileus very soft-corky, sessile, dimidiate, applanate or convex above, concave below; 
surface glabrous, zonate, not sulcate, 571.5 cm.; margin velvety, acute, becoming 
obtuse and concolorous : context very soft, floccose, radiate-fibrous, concentrically banded, 
0.5 cm. thick, chocolate-brown : hymeniunt velvety, not stratose; tubes 1 cm. long, 3-4 to 
amm,, umbrinous within, mouths white to umbrinous, regular, polygonal, stuffed at first 
with whitish material, covered 0.5-2 cm. from the margin with yellowish or reddish var- 
nish; edges entire, obtuse to acute: spores elongate-ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish- 
brown, 8-10 X 4-6. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Florida. 
Hasitat: Decayed wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
9. Ganoderma sulcatum Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 29: 607. 1902. 
A large sessile plant without zones, but marked with a few conspicuous concentric fur- 
rows. Pileus corky, dimidiate, sessile or arising from a lateral tubercle, plane or convex 
above, thickest behind, 8X 112 cm.; surface laccate, glabrous, azonate, fulvous to chest- 
