NORTHERN POLYPORES 27 



I. SCUTIGER ELLISII (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus reniform, convex, cespitose, 12-15 cm. broad, 1-2 cm. 

 thick; surface sulphur-yellow with a greenish tint, very rough, 

 with broad, floccose, imbricate scales; margin thick, con- 

 colorous, inflexed; context white or slightly yellowish, fleshy, 

 firm, rather hard when dry, with a strong unpleasant odor when 

 fresh, i cm. or more thick; tubes subdecurrent, 3-5 mm. long, 

 mouths large, 1-2 to a mm., irregular, angular, edges thin, white 

 to yellowish, changing to greenish where wounded; spores ovoid, 

 smooth, 9 X 6ju; stipe lateral or eccentric, slightly flattened, 

 irregularly roughened, solid, subreticulate, dark-yellow, hard 

 and corky within, 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. thick. 



Found rarely on clayey soil in low woods in New Jersey, as 

 well as in South Carolina and Alabama. 



2. SCUTIGER CRYPTOPUS (Ellis & Earth.) Murrill 



Pileus circular, convex, 3-7 cm. broad, 3-4 mm. thick; surface 

 glabrous, very smooth, white or slightly grayish; margin very 

 thin, inflexed when dry, concolorous, entire; context white, 

 1-2 mm. thick; tubes white or yellowish, 1-2 mm. long, slightly 

 decurrent, mouths angular, large, 1-2 to a mm., edges thin, 

 entire or fimbriate; spores ellipsoid, pointed, smooth, hyaline, 

 5-7X3-4^; stipe central, bulbous at the base, cylindric, 

 darker than the pileus, 1.5-2 cm. long, 3-7 mm. thick. 



Occasional in Kansas and Nebraska, attached to dead grass 

 roots in sandy pastures. Reported also from North Dakota. 



3. SCUTIGER CAERULEOPORUS (Peck) Murrill 

 Pilei gregarious or cespitose; pileus broadly convex, circular 

 in outline, 2.5-5 X 0.7-1 cm.; surface subtomentose, hygro- 

 phanous when fresh, isabelline to fulvous; context fleshy, fragile, 

 white, becoming yellowish-white when dry; tubes decurrent, 

 short, 3-5 mm. long, grayish-blue when fresh, becoming lateri- 

 ceous within in dried specimens, mouths angular, irregular, 

 2-3 to a mm., edges thin, uneven, toothed, grayish-blue when 

 fresh, becoming bay in dried specimens; stipe central or eccentric, 

 solid, concolorous or tinged with the color of the pores, 4-5 cm. 

 long, about 5 mm. thick. 



Occasional on the ground in woods in New York, New Eng- 

 land, and eastern Canada. 



4. SCUTIGER RADICATUS (Schw.) Murrill 

 Pileus solitary, fleshy, convex or plane, circular in outline, 

 depressed at the center, 10 cm. broad, 5-9 mm. thick; surface 



