636 Murrill: Polyporaceae of North America 



souri, Dcmctrio ; Iowa, Holway ; Nebraska, Webber ; Montana, 



Anderson. 



3. Bjerkandera fragrans (Peck) 



Polyporus fragrans Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30 : 45. 1878. 



Described from specimens collected on decaying trunks of elm 

 trees near Bethlehem, New York, in October. The following note 

 is appended to the description : " This species is closely related to 

 P. adiistus and P.fumosus, from which it is readily separated by 

 the unequal pores. Its odor when fresh is very decided and quite 

 agreeable, being not much unlike that of dry Seneca grass." 



In a later report Peck says : " After heavy rains this fungus 

 has a moist brownish appearance tinged slightly with dull red, and 

 is obscurely zonate. It is paler when dry and sometimes slightly 

 spotted. It is very closely allied to P. fumosus, and perhaps ought 

 to be considered a mere variety of it. It is distinguished by its 

 agreeable odor and by the thinner and sometimes lacerated dis- 

 sepiments of its more unequal and angular pores." 



Since Peck first described it, specimens have been collected on 

 several other deciduous hosts beside elm and in many other states 

 beside New York and Vermont, as the following will show : 

 Canada, Macoun, Dearness ; Vermont, Morgan, Brainerd ; New 

 York, Peck, Cook, Miss Overackcr ; New Jersey, Cardiff ; Kansas, 

 Swingle, Cragin, Bartholomew ; Missouri, Dcmctrio; Wisconsin, 

 Baker ; Nebraska, Webber ; Michigan, Langdon. 



Species inquirendae 



Polyporus terebrans B. & C. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10 : 306. 

 1868. Collected by Wright on dead trees in Cuba and thus 

 described : 



" Pileo subcarnoso, crasso, convexo, flabelliformi, luteo, pubescenti-scabro ; stip- 

 ite crasso lateraliter compresso, matrici pro magna parte, immerso, pubescente ; pileo 

 concolore ; hymenio convexo, albido ; poris parvis, acie obtusis. 



" Pileus 1%. inch long, l}{ wide; stem ^ inch long and thick; pores ^ inch 

 across, probably much contracted." 



Only one poor specimen is to be found at Kew, which resem- 

 bles Piptopoms suberosus in general form. The stipe appears abnor- 

 mal as though the result of an effort on the part of the sporophore 

 to escape from the substratum. The hymenium is now quite dark 

 in color. 



