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96, 11S, 14s, 161, 1S0 ; Porto Rico, Earle 53 ; New Providence, 

 Mrs. Britton; Florida, C. G. Lloyd. 



4. Sesia pallidofulva (Berk.) 



Daedalea pallidofulva Berk. Hook. Lond. Jour. 6: 322. 1847. 

 Lenzites vialis Peck, Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 26 : 67. 



1874. 



This species was described from material collected by Lea in 

 Ohio in 1842. The type plants were taken from a dead log in a 

 log fence in March. According to Berkeley, it stands exactly inter- 

 mediate between Daedalea and Lenzites. Specimens sent to Fries 

 by Berkeley are still to be seen in the herbarium at Upsala and 

 they correspond in all points with the plant known as Lenzites 

 vialis Peck, described from specimens found on railroad ties in 

 New York by Peck in 1874. 



The present species is a very common one in the United States, 

 occurring abundantly on railroad ties and other dead timber of oak, 

 willow, ash and other deciduous trees and more rarely on conif- 

 erous wood ; though the broad general distinction between this 

 species and 5. hirsuta in regard to host usually holds good, the 

 former being common on coniferous wood and the latter on de- 

 ciduous wood. In appearance, there is considerable difference in 

 the two species, 5. pallidofulva being less brightly colored, and 

 less distinctly zoned, with the furrows closer, shorter and more 

 porous. The margin also is white when fresh and turns dark 

 when bruised. There is a close resemblance between this species 

 and L. trabea (Pers.) Fr., which occurs on deciduous wood in 

 Europe. 



The following specimens are at hand : Canada, Deamess ; New 

 Jersey, Ellis ; New York, Barnhart, Mumll, Peck; Ohio, Morgan, 

 C. G. Lloyd ; Indiana, Underwood ; Louisiana, Langlois ; Ken- 

 tucky, Miss Price ; Tennessee, Murrill 494, 4.95, 54.2, jyp ; Iowa, 

 Macbride, Holway ; Pennsylvania, Rau, Banker. 



Species inquirendae 



Lenzites mexicana Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. Bot. 20 : 360. 

 1843. Collected on dead wood in the province of Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 by Andrieux. Apparently a stipitate and otherwise abnormal form 



