No. 5.] [November, 1872. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 

 By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



{Continued from Page 55.) 



-150. Polyporus (Resupinati) vesiculosus. B.Sf C. — Late effusus 

 alutaceus ; poris peziza^forniibus veluti e vesiculis raptis enatis. 

 No. 4578. Alabama. Peters. On pine planks. 



Widely spreading, pale tan- coloured ; pores y-L- inch wide, look- 

 ing like minute burst bladders. 



- 151. Polyporus (Resupinati) minimus. Bavenel.— Pulvinatus 

 fere totns e poris mollibus ceraceis candidis elongatis minimis con- 

 stitntus ; No. 2988. Car. Inf. 



Only one or two lines across, forming little cushions, consisting 

 almost entirely of very minute, elongated, wax-like pores. 



- 152. Polyporus (Resupinati) fatiscens. B. <$• JRav. — RaV. Fung. 

 Car. Fasc. 2, No. 21. Totus resupinatus albus tennissimus pulver- 

 aceus ; poris serius enatis primum punctiformibus dein angulatis. 

 Car. Inf. Entirely resupinate. At first consisting of a thin white 

 pulverulent stratum, which, after a time, bears pores about yi^ inch 

 wide, which are at first punctiform, then angular. 



• 153. Polyporus (Resupinati) tenerrimus. B. % Bav. — Rav. 

 Fung. Car. Fasc. 3, No. 13. Tutus resupinatus, tenerrimus, fulvus, 

 aquosus ; poris minimis, dissepimentis tenuibus. 



Entirely resupinate ; very thin and tender, of a watery texture, 

 tawny ; pores very small, confluent, with very thin dissepiments. 

 On bark of Ulmus Americana. 



* Glaeoporus conchoides. Mont.— Rav. Fung. Car. Fasc. 1, 22. 

 No. 2146, Car. Inf. Curt. (No. 196, 1337, Ravenel), who believes 

 it to be a perfectly developed Polyporus nigro-purpurascens. 

 Schweinitz. 



* Trametes Benzoina. Fr.— No. 5824, New Eng. Sprague, on 

 Pine. No. 3618. Tram. Micheneri, Penns. appears to be the same. 



* Trametes odorata. Fr.— No. 5907. New Eng., Russell, on 

 Pine. 



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