DECADES OF FUNGI. 319 
On a decaying stick. Waynesville, Ohio. Sept. 5, 1844. 
T. G. Lea, Esq. 
Pileus 14-2 inches across, at first infundibuliform, at length 
split once or twice behind, and forming as many flabellate 
lobes, extremely thin, quite smooth, minutely striate, yellow- 
brown. 
Stem scarce 1 an inch high, very minutely velvety, black 
below. | 
Pores white, invisible to the naked eye, punctiform. 
Closely allied to Pol. varius, but a much more delicate 
species than any of its allies. The pores are as minute as in 
Pol. xanthopus, so that it was sent as a Thelephora. _ 
124. P. (Pleuropus) rhipidium, n. sp.; cæspitoso-imbri- 
Catus pileo coriaceo reniformi concentrice sulcato alutaceo- 
: cute in areolas furfuraceas secedente; stipite laterali 
i brevi sursum dilatato pruinoso ; poris parvis alba angulatis 
denticulatis quandoque elongatis. | 
... On rotten trunks, in woods. Waynesville, Ohio. Angeet 
21, 1844. T. G. Lea, Esq. x 
1 gregarious, ein niet, coriaceous, i of an : 
inch long and broad, deeply sulcate, yellowiph, cracked. into 
minute furfuraceous areolæ. — Rae CAES 
Stem } of an inch high, hte dilated ‘above, | 
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