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shining, ferruginous to fulvous, fuliginous-black in some old 

 plants; margin at first rounded, sterile, undulate, isabelline, 

 becoming very thin, darker, and somewhat eroded with age; 

 context spongy, fragile, zonate, ferruginous to fulvous, scarcely 

 I mm. thick in mature plants; tubes oblong-polygonal when very 

 young, soon becoming concentric furrows, 5-8 mm. deep, 1-2 

 mm. wide, undulate, pale-fulvous to fuliginous, edges isabelline 

 to umbrinous, very thin, uneven, splitting with age; spores ovoid, 

 smooth, pale-ferruginous, 5-6 X 10-12 ju; stipe central, enlarged 

 above, irregular, tomentose, fulvous to fuliginous, spongy and 

 brown within, 3-8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick. 



Occasional on the ground in woods in the mountains of North 

 Carolina. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



Pseudofavolus auriculatus Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 24: 4. 1908. Described from 

 specimens collected by Langlois on dead branches in Louisiana and said to be 

 near Hexagona cucullata (Mont.) Murrill. 



Polyporus calvescens Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3 : 390. 1 839. Described from New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, and not since collected. It cannot be referred to Hapalopilus 

 gilvus. 



Coriolopsis crocata (Fries) Murrill probably occurs rarely on the Gulf coast. 



Fulvifomes Everhartii (Ellis & Gall.) Murrill has been reported from North 

 Carolina. 



Spongipellis fragilis (Fries) Murrill, comb. nov. Polyporus fragilis Fries, 

 Elench. Fung. 86. 1828. Occasional on dead coniferous wood in the eastern 

 United States, southward to the mountains of western North Carolina. The sur- 

 face and tubes are white, changing to ferruginous or chestnut when handled. 



Trametes Petersii Berk. & Curt. Grevillea i: 66. 1872. Described from speci- 

 mens collected in Alabama as applanate, pale-fulvous, finely tomentose, slightly 

 sulcate-zonate near the margin; tubes minute, with rigid dissepiments. This 

 species has not been collected since it was discovered. It can hardly be referred 

 to Hapalopilus gilvus. 



Grifola ramosissima (Scop.) Murrill has been reported from Tennessee. 



Specimens that appear to be Elfvingia tornata were recently received from 

 Austin, Texas. 



Fames torulosus is said to have been found in New Orleans on the trunk of a 

 living live oak. 



