130 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 9 
TYPE LOCALITY: Frankfurt, Germany. . : : 
HABITAT: Dead deciduous and coniferous wood, structural timber in particular, 
DISTRIBUTION : Temperate regions of North America and Europe. 
EXSICccaTI: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 703 ; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 209. 
4. Gloeophyllum hirsutum (Schaeff.) Murrill, Jour. 
Myc. 9: 94. 1903. 
Lenzites, rhabarbarina Berk. & Curt. Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 428. 1858. —Grevillea 1: 35. 
1872. (Type from South Carolina.) 
Sesia hirsuta Murrill, Jour. Myc. 9: 88. 1903. 
Pileus hard, corky to woody, slightly flexible, imbricate, sessile, laterally connate, often 
decurrent, oblong-dimidiate to flabelliform, conchate, 2-3 X 4-8 X 0.3-1em.; surface zquate, 
strigose-tomentose, scrupose, anoderm, rather uneven, reddish-fulvous to fuliginous or um- 
brinous; margin rather thick, sterile, isabelline, undulate, finely tomentose, becoming acute 
and darker in age: context soft-corky, homogeneous, fulvous, about 2 mm. thick; tubes 
usually lamelloid, anastomosing when young, ochraceous to grayish-umbrinous, 0.5-1 mm. 
broad, 2-5 mm. deep, edges thin, undulate; in a poroid variety, tubes circular, regular, 2 
to a mm., edges thick, firm, entire: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-12 3-44; 
basidia hyaline, 25-30 & 5-6; hyphae luteous, 2.5-34. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bavaria. 
HasitaT: Dead coniferous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : North Temperate zone. _ 
ILLUSTRATION: Sow. Engl. Fungi loc. ctt. : : 
EXsIccaTI: Roum. Fungi Gall. 855; Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 2825, Allesch,. & Schn. Fungi 
Bavar. 434 ; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 69; Roum. Fungi Sel. 5402; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 2202 ; Desmaz. 
Pl, Crypt. 2255 ; Ellis & Ev. N, Am. Fungi 2505 ; Rav. Fungi Am. 208; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi Z; Rav. 
Fungi Car. 7. 
5. Gloeophyllum Berkeleyi (Sacc.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 32: 370. 1905. 
Daedalea rhabarbarina Berk. & Cooke, Grevillea 6: 130. 1877. Not D. rhabarbarina Mont. 
Daedalea Berkeleyt Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 381. 1888. 
? Lenztles endothaea Pat. Jour. de Bot. 3: 165. 1889. (Type from the island of La Trinité, South 
America.) 
? Daedalea Burserae Pat. Jour. de Bot. 3: 341. 1889. (Type from Martinique, on rotten wood of 
Bursera gunimifera.) 
Daedalea jamaicensis P. Henn. Hedwigia 37: 281. 1898. (Type from Port Antonio, Jamaica, on 
dead wood.) 
Sesta Berkeleyit Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 604. 1904. 
Pileus corky, subrigid, dimidiate, sessile, imbricate, laterally connate, plane above, 
usually convex below, 3-5 5-10 K 0.8-2 cm.; surface finely tomentose to glabrous and sub- 
shining, zonate, slightly sulcate, radiately furrowed, cremeous or isabelline to fulvous or 
chestnut-colored and finally black behind; margin obtuse, tomentose, white or cream-col- 
ored to ochraceous-fulvous: context punky to soft-corky, homogeneous, 2-4 mm. thick, 
fulvous, tinted with rhubarb when very young; tubes irregular, daedaleoid, branched or 
forked, becoming much elongate radially, 5-15 mm. deep, about 1 mm. broad, wider 
with age, edges white or ochraceous to fulvous, thin, rigid, sinuate, rarely splitting even 
with age. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Gainesville, Floridaf on pine stumps. 
HaBItaT: Dead coniferous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Gulf states and tropical America. 
EXSICCATI: Smith, Centr. Am. Fungi 179. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Lenzites mexicana Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 20: 360. 1843. Collected by Andrieux, on 
dead wood in the province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Not Gloeophylluin striatum, although 
closely related. Authentic specimens are old and discolored. - 
