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found a few feet from the ground on a decaying standing trunk of 

 cypress (Taxodium distichum) in damp rich woods near the Miami 

 river. Other plants were collected near the type locality by Mr. 

 McCullough of the Miami Experiment Station. 



Species inquirendae 



Favolus Friesii B. & C. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10 : 321. 1868. 

 First collected on decayed wood at San Jose, Costa Rica, and 

 called Favolus lacerus by Fries, who later (Nov. Symb. 104. 185 1) 

 assigned it to/ 7 , flaccidus Fr. (Linnaea, 5 : 511. 1830), a species 

 collected in Brazil by Beyrich, in whose herbarium it was called 

 Canthareilus aequinoctialis Link. The original name was changed 

 by Berkeley and Curtis because of Favolus lacerus Lev., described 

 from Java. The Cuban plant at Kew seems only a form of 

 H. daedalea, but it is very likely that the one from Costa Rica is 

 different. 



Favolus curtipes B. & C. Hook. Jour. Bot. I : 234. 1849. 

 " Pileus reniform, two inches broad, one and one-half inches long, 

 quite smooth, rigid, and tawny when dry. Stem extremely short, 

 disciform. Pores one-thirty-sixth of an inch broad, pale, undu- 

 lated, and crisped ; edge white." Said by the authors to differ 

 from F. cucullatus Mont, in having less rigid and smaller pores 

 and more fleshy substance. 



Favolus guadalupensis Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. III. Bot. 5 : 144. 

 .1846. Collected on trunks in Guadeloupe by L'Herminier. In- 

 fundibuliform specimens of H. daedalea agree fairly well with the 

 description of this species. 



Favolus vclutipes Fr. Nov. Symb. 104. 185 1. Collected by 

 Oersted at San Jose, Costa Rica. Pileus fan-shaped, smooth, ferru- 

 ginous ; stipe very short, pubescent. 



GRIFOLA S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. 1 : 643. 182 1. 



PolypUus Karst. Rev. Myc. 3: 17. 1881. 



Meripilus Karst. Bidr. Finlands Nat. och Folk. 37: 33. 1882. 



Cladomeris Quel. Enchiridion, 167. 1886. 



The genus Grifola was founded on Grifola froudosa and five 

 other species with lateral stem and semicircular cap, i. e., G. 

 platypora, G. cristata, G. lucida, G. badia and G. varia. Of these 



