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irregular, angular, with thin dissepiments, slightly decurrent, white, 

 changing to greenish where wounded, yellowish when dry ; spores 

 oval or ovoid, 9x6/i, with a single large highly refractive gutta. 

 Growing in clayey soil. Auburn, Alabama, 23 Nov., 1896. 

 Mrs. F. S. Earle. 



POLYPORUS IRREGULARIS H, Sp. 



Pileus irregular, more or less branching, brownish, paler to- 

 wards the margin, uneven, subtomentose, with a thin imperfect 

 crust, the under layer of which is darker colored, forming a deli- 

 cate brown line in section; 4-6 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, the margin 

 usually thin ; context white, floccose-felty pores white, 5 mm. or 

 more deep, irregular, more or less angular, small (0.25 mm.}, the 

 dissepiments rather thin, firm, even. 



Growing irregularly underneath a pine log. Auburn, Alabama, 

 Feb., 1896. 



The older portions are ferruginous brown above, and the 

 iree margins, when developed, are thin and distinctly paler brown 

 for a space of about i cm. The extreme margin is sterile, and 

 the pores which are normally even, become irregular and oblique 

 as the margin tends to become erect. 



PoLYPORUS Meliae n. sp. 



Pileus convex, dirty white, subtomentose, anoderm, 5-8 cm. 

 in diameter, occasionally coalescing; margin obtuse, sometimes 

 extending nearly or quite around the pores ; cortex floccose- 

 corky, whitish ; pores cream white, becoming darker with age, 

 more or less rimose, 5-6 mm. deep, minute (about 0.2 mm.), the 

 dissepiments firm, slightly uneven, usually with obtuse edges; 

 spores narrowly oblong, 6x3, hyaline. 



On branches o{ Melia Azederach, Auburn, Alabama, Oct., 1895. 



In very old specimens the layer of pores becomes cracked in 

 all directions and very much discolored. 



POLYPORUS RETIPES n. Sp. 



Terrestrial ; stem excentric, 4-6 cm. long, 2 cm or more thick, 

 yellowish-white towards the base; pileus 6-15 cm. each way, 

 brown, appressed tomentose, finely areolate-rimose so as to appear 

 finely mottled ; context fleshy, rather thick (2 cm. or more) be- 

 coming quite thin in drying, whitish ; margin acute; pores de- 

 current half the length of the stem, shallow, whitish, large (1.5 

 mm. or more), mostly hexagonal, the dissepiments thin and finely 

 lacerate. 



