60 SOUTHERN POLYPORES 



2. GLOEOPHYLLUM HIRSUTUM (Schaeff.) Murrill 



Pileus hard, corky to woody, slightly flexible, imbricate, sessile, 

 laterally connate, often decurrent, oblong-dimidiate to flabelli- 

 form, conchate, 2-3 X 4-8 X 0.3-1 cm. ; surface zonate, strigose- 

 tomentose, anoderm, rather uneven, reddish-fulvous to fuliginous 

 or umbrinous; 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 X 3-4 M- 



Extremely common throughout on dead coniferous wood, and 

 rarely on deciduous wood. It is very destructive to coniferous 

 timber, and sometimes causes heart-rot in living trunks. 



3. GLOEOPHYLLUM BERKELEYI (Sacc.) Murrill 



Pileus corky, subrigid, dimidiate, sessile, imbricate, laterally 

 connate, plane above, usually convex below, 3-5 X 5-10 X 0.8-2 

 cm. ; surface finely tomentose to glabrous and subshining, zonate, 

 slightly sulcate, radiately furrowed, cremeous or isabelline to 

 fulvous or chestnut-colored and finally black behind; margin 

 obtuse, tomentose, white or cream-colored to ochraceous-fulvous; 

 context punky to soft-corky, homogeneous, 2-4 mm. thick, 

 fulvous, tinged with rhubarb when very young; tubes irregular, 

 daedaleoid, branched or forked, becoming much elongate radially, 

 5-15 mm. deep, about I mm. broad, wider with age, edges white 

 or ochraceous to fulvous, thin, rigid, sinuate, rarely splitting 

 even with age. 



Frequent on dead coniferous wood in the Gulf states. 



44. CYCLOPORUS Murrill 



Hymenophore annual, tough, anoderm, terrestrial, centrally 

 stipitate; context soft, spongy, ferruginous; pores at first poly- 

 gonal, soon becoming continuous concentric furrows, dissepi- 

 ments thin, lamelloid; spores ovoid, smooth, ferruginous. 



i. CYCLOPORUS GREENE: (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus circular, obconic to explanate, rarely cespitose, 5-10 

 cm. broad, 5-10 mm. thick at the center, much thinner at the 

 margin; surface undulate, zonate, tomentose to glabrous and 



