1 6 WESTERN POLYPORES 



Found only once, growing in soil on the side of a canyon at 

 Pasadena, California. 



3. SCUTIGER HISPIDELLUS (Peck) Murrill, comb. nov. 



Polyponts hispidellus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 5: 649. 1899. 



Pileus fleshy- tough, dimidiate to subcircular, convex to plane 

 or slightly depressed, solitary, 5-10 cm. broad; surface pale- 

 fawn-colored or grayish-brown to subfuliginous, clothed with 

 short, stiff, erect hairs, margin entire, concolorous; context white; 

 tubes short, cylindric, white, variable in size, edges, thin uneven, 

 dentate or lacerate; spores fusiform, smooth, hyaline, usually 

 uniguttulate, about 12.5 X 4/*; stipe lateral or eccentric, often 

 irregular, solid, colored and clothed like the pileus, 2.5-4 cm - long, 

 1-1.5 cm - thick. 



Originally described from the Lake Placid region in the Adiron- 

 dacks, occurring on roots of trees or buried wood. Occasional 

 northward, extending across the continent from Prince Edward 

 Island to Washington. It differs from 5. radicatus in its stiff, 

 erect hairs, lateral or eccentric stipe, and small spores. 





 9. AURANTIPORELLUS Murrill 



Hymenophore large, annual, epixylous, effused, immarginate 

 or narrowly reflexed ; surface azonate, soft, anoderm and orange- 

 colored when young, becoming slightly encrusted and darker 

 with age; context orange-colored, extremely soft and spongy 

 throughout; tubes orange-colored, very large, thin-walled, ir- 

 regular, lacerate, fragile; spores smooth, hyaline. 



i. AURANTIPORELLUS ALBOLUTEUS (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill 



Pileus soft, spongy, effused, laterally connate, narrowly reflexed 

 at times, but usually entirely resupinate, 5-6 cm. broad, 1-4 cm. 

 thick; surface velvety, azonate, orange-colored, becoming slightly 

 encrusted and darker with age; margin thin, reflexed, concolorous; 

 context very soft, spongy, orange-colored, absorbing water to a 

 remarkable degree, 0.5-1.5 cm. thick; tubes annual, light-orange- 

 colored, very large, 1-2 cm. long, mouths irregular, 1-2 mm. in 

 diameter, edges thin, concolorous, somewhat fragile, more pallid 

 on their extreme margin, lacerate with age; spores oblong, 

 8-12 X 3 /* 



Occasional on dead coniferous logs in Washington. 



