142 POLYPORKI. 



Genus LII. MERUI^BUS. Fr. 



Hymenium soft, waxy, forming shallow pores, reticulated, 

 forming folds. 



M. tremellosus. Schrad. 

 Resupinate, reflexed, fleshy tremelloid, tomentose, white, 

 margin dentate-radiate, folds porose, variable, pinkish. 

 Common on logs and stumps. 



M. corium. Fr. 



Resupinate, effused, soft, papery, circumference free, white, 

 villous. Hymenium netted, porose, pallid, tan color. 

 On dead limbs, not very abuadant. 



M. rubellus. Pk. 



Pileus, sessile, confluent and imbricated, repand, thin, 

 convex, somewhat tenacious, subtomentose, glabrate, red, 

 becoming pale. Hymenium whitish or reddish ; the folds 

 much branched, porose-anastomosing. 



Pores, white, elliptic, .004 to .005 mm. long. — Morgan's 

 Mycological Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio. 



This species is very scarce in our Lehigh Valley. I only remember 

 finding it once on a soft wood log near Chapman's Station. 



Genus LIH. FISTUI^INA. Fr. 



Hymenophore fleshy. Hymenium inferior. There is only 

 one species recorded belonging to this family, viz: 



F. hepatica. Liver Fungus. 



PiletlS, dimidiate, red juicy, undivided, flesh mottled like 

 beet root, pileus covered with a more or less gelatinous cuticle. 



