MurrILL: PoLyPpoRACEAE OF NortH AMERICA bs Bs 
found a few feet from the ground on a decaying standing trunk ‘of 
cypress (7axodium distichum) in damp rich woods near the Miami 
tiver. Other plants were collected near the type locality by Mr. 
McCullough of the Miami Experiment Station. 
SPECIES INQUIRENDAE 
favolus Friesit B. & C. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10: 321. 1868. 
First collected on decayed wood at San José, Costa Rica, and 
called Lavolus lacerus by Fries, who later (Nov. Symb. 104. 1851) 
assigned it to /. flaccidus Fr. (Linnaea, §: 511. 1830), a species 
collected in Brazil by Beyrich, in whose herbarium it was called 
Cantharedlus aequinoctialis Link. The original name was changed 
by Berkeley and Curtis because of Favolus lacerus Lév., described 
from Java. The Cuban plant at Kew seems only a form of 
HT. daedalea, but it is very likely that the one from Costa Rica is 
different. 
Favolus curtipes B. & C. Hook. Jour. Bot. 1: 234. 1849. 
“ Pileus reniform, two inches broad, one and one-half inches long, 
quite smooth, rigid, and tawny when dry. Stem extremely short, 
disciform. Pores one- -thirty-sixth of an inch broad, pale, undu- 
lated, and crisped ; edge white.” Said by the authors to differ 
from F. cucullatus Mont. in having less rigid and smaller pores 
and more fleshy substance. 
Favolus guadalupensis Lév. Ann. Sc. Nat. III. Bot. 5: 1 
1846. Collected on trunks in Guadeloupe by L’Herminier.  In- 
fundibuliform specimens of /. daedalea agree fairly well with the 
description of this species. 
Favolus velutipes Fr. Nov. Symb. 104. 1851. Collected by 
Oersted at San José, Costa Rica. Pileus fan-shaped, smooth, ferru- 
ginous ; stipe very short, pubescent. 
GRIFOLA S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 643. 1821. 
Polypilus Karst. Rev. Myc. 3: 17. 1881. 
Meripilus Karst. Bidr. Finlands Nat. och Folk. 37: 33. 1882. 
Cladomeris Quél. Enchiridion, 167. 1886. 
The genus Grifola was founded on Grifola frondosa and five 
Other species with lateral stem and semicircular cap, 7. ¢@, G. 
blatypora, G. cristata, G. lucida, G. badia and G. varia, Of these 
