CLASSIFICATION OP A.OARK 



crowded and narrow. L3. P. rudU Pr. (Syn. P. ttriaottu 



Scbw.) 

 (bbj Pileus glabrous or obscurely Bbrlllose caly. 



(C) Gills crowded and narrow. 14. P. i . \.u 



Pr. 

 (cc) Gills close to Bubdistant 14. /'. torulonu Pr. 



(Other species have been described by Peck, P. i>> /uH,,,, , on bir< 

 from Newfoundland, with a dimidiate, grayish-brown pileus; /'. 

 nigrifolius from Alabama, with distant, dark-brown gills. /'. </<<//- 

 bafttf Berk, was described from Ohio; ii has an amber color throuj 

 out, with the shape of P. angustatus. /'. albotomentosus Cke. & 



Massee, reported by Mcllvaine, is probably the si • as Pleuro 



albolanatus Pk. of this report. /'. dorsaUs Bosc. Is the Bauie as 

 Claudopux iiuluhuis.) 



Section 1. Conchati. Stem eccentric; pileus irregular oi 



chate. 



12a. Panus strigosus B. & C. (Edible) 

 North American Fungi, No. 99. 

 Illustration: Plate IV of this Report. 



PILEUS huge, varying from 10 to 40 cm. broad, 8ubcentrdl, 

 strongly eccentric or lateral, marginate behind, fleshy-fibrous to sub- 

 coriaceous, convex, subexpanded, reniform, covered with a d\ 

 thick, strigoee-villose nap composed of hairs ap to 2 nun. Long in 

 large specimens, creamy-white when fresh, becoming yellow on dry- 

 ing. FLESH firm, somewhal tough, up to 2 cm. thick, tapering 

 the very thin margin, yellowish when fresh, white when dry. GILLS 

 subdecurrent, broad, close to subdistant, heterophyllous, thick, 

 white, changing to yellow on drying, edge entire. STEM shorl or 

 long, stout, :M.~> cm. long, 2 1 cm. thick, strigose-vilb centric 



or almosl lateral, whitish to yellowish, sometimes tinged cin< 

 SPORES elongated-oblong, 1 1 13 \ •". | •_• I ' ■_• micr., smooth white in 

 mass. CYSTIDIA none. OI>()K stronger in age, rather agreeable 



(Dried: Strigosity and cuticle are dull golden-yellow, flesh wl 

 ish, gills ferruginous.) 



Solitary or caespitose, subimbrica iwing from the * 



maple and yellow birch; also on apple trees and oth< 

 trees. Probably throughoul the state; Houghton, Nett R 

 August-September, [nfrequenl or rare. Edible when 



This is the largesl Panus we have; the pileus 



