596 MurriLL: PoLyPORACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
allied to P. Schweinitzit, but was distinguished by its saffron-colored 
substance and strigose-squamose pileus. The two specimens col- 
lected are still at Kew and are practically identical in form and 
appearance with my own collections made in September. The 
species has also been found by Commons in Delaware, Ellis in 
New Jersey, Memminger in North Carolina and Dr. Martin in 
Florida. European exsiccati are too numerous to mention here. 
2. Inonotus perplexus (Peck) 
Polyporus perplexus Peck, Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 49: 
Ig. 18096. 
This species was described from plants collected by Peck on 
beech trunks in Oneida County, New York. It is hairy-tomen- 
tose to setose-hispid, resembling /. cuticularis and J. hispidus. Its 
spores are ferruginous and broadly elliptical, being smaller than 
those of /. hispidus. The same plant was distributed by Shear in 
his New York Fungi, zo. rzo, under the name of Polyporus radl- 
atus. His specimens were found at Alcove, New York, on a dead 
beech trunk. Plants were recently determined for me by Prof. 
Peck, although he thinks the types were destroyed while the her- 
barium was housed in the state capitol. 
The present species is well named P. perplexus, since it has 
troubled more than one mycologist and collector during the last 
quarter of a century, some calling it P. cuticularis because of its 
hairy surface and others passing it for P. radiatus on account of 
its general appearance and evident close relationship with that 
species. During the past summer I had the opportunity of study- 
ing a large number of the fresh and growing sporophores on the 
trunk of a living sycamore maple in Bedford City, Virginia; and 
found the velvety, bright ferruginous surface and the sharp, sterile 
margin very characteristic. It seems to range much farther south 
than /. radiatus and is also more commonly collected, although 
neither can be said to be abundant. 
Specimens are at hand from Pennsylvania, Stevenson ; Dela- 
ware, Commons ; Maine, Hodson ; Georgia, Underwood ; Virginia, 
Murrill roos5 ; Alabama, Earle ; Louisiana, Langlois ; Mississippi, 
Tracy. The hosts given are oak, spruce (?), and maple. It oc- 
curs on trunks and logs of either dead or decaying trees. 
