From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, July, 1885. 



THE MYCOLOGIC FLORA OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, 



LIBRARV 

 MEW YORK 



DTANICAL 

 GARDEN 



OHIO. 



By a. p. Morgan. 



\^C()ntiniied from Vol. VII, p. lo. Plate I. \ 



Genus II. Polyporus, Fr. 



Hymenophore descending in a trama between the pores ; the 

 pores hence connate with the substance of the pileus and not sep- 

 arable from each other. Fungi mostly lignatile and persistent. 



Stipe vertical, simple, concolorous at the base. 

 I. Carnosi. Pileus fleshy ; terrestrial. 



1. P. ovinus, Fr. Pileus fleshy, fragile, deformed, becoming 

 scaly, whitisfi. Stipe short, unequal, white. Pores minute, round, 

 equal, white, then citron-colored. 



On the ground in woods in autumn ; rare. Pileus 2 — 4 inches 

 broad, fleshy, thick, compact but fragile, very irregular in shape ; 

 stipe short and thick, an inch or more in length, sometimes 

 tuberous ; edible, with a pleasant amygdaline taste. 



2. P. leucomelas, Pers. Pileus fleshy, somewhat fragile, dc- 



