356 Murrill: Polyporaceae of North America 



5. FUNALIA Pat. Tax. Hymen. 95. 1900 



Type: Funalia Mons- Veneris (Jungh.) Pat. 



Hymenophore annual, epixylous, sessile, dimidiate, often semi- 

 resupinate ; surface anoderm, hairy: context light-brown, duplex, 

 spongy above, coriaceous to woody below ; tubes usually large, 

 thin -walled, more or less lacerate : spores smooth, hyaline. 



Synopsis of tlie Korth American species 



1. Northern species ; context thick, firm, tubes circular to angular, concolorous. 



1. F. sluppea. 

 Southern species, confined to the Gulf States and tropical America. 2. 



2. Surface hairs small and simple, entire plant soft and flexible. 2. F. villosa. 

 Surface hairs conspicuously branched and tufted, plant more or less rigid. 



3. F. cladotricha. 



1. Funalia stuppea (Berk.) 



Tramctcs stuppcns Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 7: 453. 1841. 

 Trametes Pcckii Kalchb. Bot. Gaz. 6 : 274. 1881. 



Described originally from Dr. Richardson's collections at 

 Carlton House, British America, in 1841 and again forty years 

 later from specimens collected by Irish on dead cottonwood trunks 

 in Dakota. Kalchbrenner's description is translated by Peck as 

 follows : 



" Pileus corky, dimidiate, sessile, subdecurrent, hairy, zoneless, 

 brownish-ferruginous, becoming pale, the margin acute ; pores 

 rather large, varying from rotund to angular, colored nearly like 

 the pileus or when old becoming brown; substance wood-color." 



This species is abundant in certain parts of northern and 

 western North America on dead stumps and trunks of cottonwood 

 and other species of poplar. What appears to be a modified form 

 of the same plant has been found on dead willow trees in Kansas. 

 Although similar, all forms of this species are distinct from 

 Tramctcs liispida Bagl. of Europe. 



British Columbia, Macoun ; Montana, Anderson; Dakota, 

 Irish; Colorado, Crandall, Cowen ; Kansas, Bartholomew ; Mis- 

 souri, Demetrio ; New Mexico, Earle. 



2. Funalia villosa (Sw.) 

 Boletus villosiis Sw. Prodr. 148. 1788. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3 : 1923. 



1806. 

 Favolus villas?/ s Fr. Syst. Myc. I : 344. 1821. 

 Poly poms villosiis Fr. Epicr. 475. 1836-38. 



