MUKRILL : POLYPORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA 479 



Earliella cubensis sp. nov. 



Pileus annual, often reviving, semi-resupinate, laterally ex- 

 tended, conchate, imbricate, 3-6 x 5-15 X 0.2-0.5 cm.; surface 

 thinly encrusted, glabrous, rugose, zonate, dark reddish-brown be- 

 hind, or leaving a white marginal band 3—12 mm. in width ; margin 

 tumid, at length thin, undulate or lobed, fertile ; context white, 

 coriaceous, concentrically zonate ; tubes 2—3 mm. long, 2-4 to a 

 mm., white within, the mouths deep reddish-flesh-colored, fading 

 to white, dissepiments at first thick, at length becoming thin and 

 irregular with wavy edges ; spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 

 3-4 x 5-6 u, cystidia none. 



The type plants of this species were collected by Earle and 

 Murrill (110. ipj) near Herradura, Cuba, March 11, 1905. They 

 grew on a decayed fallen deciduous log in rather moist woods. 

 The species was collected also in the central and eastern parts of 

 Cuba, and appears to be fairly well distributed and quite abundant 

 in the island. It is known also from Jamaica and Central Amer- 

 ica. Berkeley identified the plant as Polystictus Pcrsoonii Fr., 

 which is the same as Daedalea sanguinea Kl. (Linnaea 8 : 481. 

 1833), described from Wight's collections in the East Indies. I 

 have this latter plant from Hawaii, China, Africa and Australia, 

 and there is a close resemblance between it and the American 

 plant, but I think the two are sufficiently distinct. If P. rudis 

 Lew were better known it might prove to be an earlier name for 

 the American species in question. 



Cuba, Earle & Murrill 104, ipj, 204, 584 ; Jamaica, Earle 

 489 ; Mexico, C. L. Smith; Nicaragua, Shimek. 



Species inouirendae 



Polyporus rudis Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. Bot. 5: 133. 

 1846. Polyporus subfulvus Cooke, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 

 I 3 '■ L53- 1878. Described from plants collected by Lherminier 

 on trunks in the island of Guadeloupe as follows : 



" Pileo coriaceo-suberoso applanato elongato sessili nudo e 

 basi ad marginem acutum sinuosum rugoso-radiato concentrice 

 sulcato, postice nigricante, antice fulvo, poris minutis rotundis ore 

 obtusis fuscescentibus, intus contextuque fulvis." 



This description may have been made from an old discolored 



specimen. 



