Part 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 123 
smooth, glabrous, laccate, lustrous, bay to black, 1-2 *1 cm., substance corky, otherwise 
like that of the pileus. 
i" Type collected at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, on a dead mango log, July 5, 1904, #. S. Earle 
65: 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
17. Ganoderma parvulum Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 29: 605. 1902. 
A very small sessile fungus, shining-bay above and honey-yellow below. Pileus woody, 
nearly circular in outline, attached by a point, convex above, plane or convex below, thickest 
behind, 2 2.5 X 1 cm.; surface glabrous, laccate, azonate, slightly tubercular, very lightly 
marked witha few concentric furrows ; margin acute: context soft-woody, pale-ochraceous, 
0.5 cm. thick, with dark horny radiations from the point of attachment ; tubes not stratified, 
3mm. long, 5 to a mm., umbrinous within, mouths polygonal, honey-yellow, edges entire, 
obtuse: spores subglobose, smooth, pale yellowish-brown, 4X 5. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Nicaragua. 
HasitatT: Decayed wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
18. Ganoderma nitidum Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus corky, woody, dimidiate or nearly circular, applanate, rarely ungulate or co- 
lumnar by accretion with age, convex above, slightly concave below, 6-10 X 8-16 « 1.5-7 
em.; surface glabrous, abundantly sulcate, laccate, shining, bay to brownish-black, flaky from 
the excess of resin exuded; margin ochraceous, subobtuse, undulate to lobed, the new 
growth often forming a broad lustrous band bordering the hymenium: context very 
thin, punky, bay, homogeneous, 1-3 mm. thick ; tubes stratified, very long and slender, 
1.5-2.5 cm., umbrinous to fuliginous within, mouths circular to slightly angular, stuffed 
with whitish mycelium when young,.edges obtuse to very thin and uneven, white to 
umbrinous. 
Type collected in the forests of Rio Esperanza, Puerto Sierra, Honduras, on dead trunks, 
February 28, 1903, P. Wilson 607. 
DISTRIBUTION : Honduras. 
19. Ganoderma tuberculosum Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus rigid, dimidiate to reniform, applanate, 7-15 * 12-30 2-4 cm.; surface gla- 
brous, laccate, shining, many times shallowly sulcate, radiate-rugose, roughly tuberculose, 
especially in large specimens, usually umbonate behind, bay to dull-brown with age; margin 
cremeous to fulvous, glabrous, slightly undulate, subobtuse to truncate with age: context 
punky to soft-corky, isabelline above, fulvous below, castaneous with age, homogeneous, 
5-10 mm. thick; tubes perennial, indistinctly stratified, 1-2.5 cm. long, avellaneous 
within, slightly darker with age, mouths circular, 4 to a mm., not stuffed when young, 
edges obtuse, cream-colored, at length thin and darker in color: spores ovoid, dark-brown, 
8X6; hyphae dark-brown, 6p. 
Type collected in British Honduras, on dead wood, in 1906, Morton E. Peck. 
DISTRIBUTION : British Honduras. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Fomes nitens Fries, Epicr. Myc. 463. 1838. Type collected on trunks in tropical 
America. Pileus large, sessile, semiglobose, chestnut to black, shining, hanging by a 
process behind: context umbrinous; tubes very long and slender. .Authentic material not 
found. . 
Fomes incrustatus Fries, Nov. Symb. 60. 1851. Type collected in Costa Rica by 
Oersted. Pileus 5-7 cm. broad, duil-umbrinous, laccate: context scanty, pallid; tubes con- 
colorous; stipe central, torulose, unequal. Authentic material not found. 
