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5. SCUTIGER GRISEUS (Peck) Murrill 



Pileus circular, often irregular, convex, 7-12 cm. broad, I crru 

 or less thick; surface glabrous or minutely tomentose, cinereous, 

 slightly darker towards the center; margin thin, concolorous, 

 often incurved on drying, irregular, undulate to lobed; context 

 soft-fleshy, rosy-gray, about 5 mm. thick; tubes slightly decur- 

 rent, 1-2 mm. long, whitish-stuffed when young, white to pale- 

 umbrinous within, mouths subangular, unequal, 2-4 to a mm., 

 edges thin, entire to fimbriate, lacerate with age, white when 

 young, becoming gray or umbrinous; spores subglobose, echinu- 

 late, 5-6 X 4. 5-5 M; stipe central, thick, short, bulbous at the 

 base, with surface and substance resembling that of the pileus 

 but darker in color, 4-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm - thick. 



Occasional on the ground in woods in Alabama. 



6. SCUTIGER PERSICINUS (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill 



Pilei confluent; pileus soft, slightly elastic, pulvinate, often 

 oblique, very thick, somewhat depressed, 10-25 cm. broad, 

 1-2 cm. thick; surface fulvous-brown, becoming purple at times, 

 short- tomentose; margin lobed or undulate, very obtuse; context 

 white, with black lines marking the seasons of growth in dried 

 specimens, watery-spongy, reddish, dark-purple in the cuticle 

 in fresh specimens, fading to pale-lavender; tubes decurrent, 

 white when fresh, brownish-black in dried specimens, 2-3 mm. 

 long, mouths angular, 2 to a mm., edges thin, lacerate; stipe 

 central, thick, conic, dark-purple, 5 cm. long, 4-8 cm. thick. 



Described from specimens collected by Ravenel at the base 

 of trunks in pine woods in South Carolina. The remains of the 

 types at Kew do not seem to fit the description. Splendid 

 specimens recently collected at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 

 by Mr. Totten and sent to me by Prof. Coker are described as 

 "cespitose in pine woods, reaching 14 cm. broad, pale-orange- 

 yellow to cinnamon-buff; context soft and spongy, white to pale- 

 yellow, with pleasant taste and acid odor; tubes small, extremely 

 shallow, only i mm. long, decurrent, white, changing to pale- 

 yellow; spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 4-4.5 X 2.5-4^; stipe whitish 

 to buff, about 6 cm. long and 3 cm. thick." These specimens 

 have assumed purplish tints in drying. 



16. GRIFOLA (Micheli) S. F. Gray 



Hymenophore large, annual, stipitate, compound, intricately 

 branched or lobed, humus-loving or epixylous, rarely terrestrial, 



