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men before me, consisting of 15 to 20 lobes and pileoli, has a 

 breadth of 15 inches and a heighth of one foot; the common stipe 

 usually penetrates the ground some distance. The original speci- 

 men from the herbarium of Berkeley, described by Fries, appears 

 to have been a single large segment or pileolus (Nov. Symb., p. 56). 

 Fries styles it " Nobillissimus interomnes mihi cognitos Polyporos." 

 Miss Banning's P. Beatiei seems scarcely different, except in 

 texture. 



19. P. distortiis, Schw. "Pilei confluent, distorted or ear-shaped, 

 cervine, with the pores on all sides ; pores minute, rather soft, white, 

 growing pallid. " ScJnv. 



"Pilei numerous, subdimidiate, distorted, ear-form or orbicular ; cov- 

 ered all over by the pores, which are white, becoming pale, minute, 

 sinuate, rather soft, and which often grow upon the margin of the 

 pileus, rendering it thick and porose, and run down on the spongy, 

 coriaceous stipes. Frequently the fungus is found destitute of a 

 pileus, being everywhere porose and club-shaped, or cylindrical." 

 Fries. 



This polymorphous species I observe not uncommonly growing 

 about the roots of the stumps in newly-cleared lands. I am unable 

 to see that it is an imperfect form of any other species. 



III. Caseosi. Pileus cheesy, at first watery-soft, afterward dry 

 and fragile; growing in spring and summer, but short-lived and 

 soon crumbling to pieces. 



20. P. sulphureus, Bull. Caespitoso-multiplex, juicy-cheesy, soon 

 growing pale. Pileoli imbricate, undulate, nearly glabrous, red- 

 dish-yellow. Pores minute, plane, sulphur-yellow. Spores white. 

 .0058X.0076 mm. 



On old logs, stumps and even the decayed portions of standing 

 trees; very common. Forming large tufts, i — 2 feet or more in 

 breadth ; pileoli various in form, but in their fresh state readily 

 distinguished by the sulphur-colored pores, though the bright 

 colors are soon gone, and the whole pales out and crumbles to 

 pieces. 



21. P. Cincinnatus, Morg. Consisting of numerous caespitose- 

 connate, imbricated, more or less stipitate pileoli. PileoH very 

 broad, reniform, undulate and rugose, nearly glabrous, reddish- 



