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MurriL_L: PoLypoRacEAE OF NortH AMERICA 605 
96, 178, 145, 161, 180; Porto Rico, Earle 53 > New Providence, 
Mrs. Britton ; Florida, C. G. Lloyd. 
4. Sesia pallidofulva (Berk.) 
Daedalea palidofulva Berk. Hook. Lond. Jour. 6: 322. 1847. 
Lenzites vialis Peck, Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 26: 67. 
1874. 
This species was described from material collected by Lea in 
Ohio in 1842. The type plants were taken from a dead log ina 
log fence in March. According to Berkeley, it stands exactly inter- 
mediate between Daedalea and Lenzites. Specimens sent to Fries 
by Berkeley are still to be seen in the herbarium at Upsala and 
they correspond in all points with the plant known as Levzttes 
malis Peck, described from. specimens found on railroad ties in 
New York by Peck in 1874. 
The present species is a very common one in the United States, 
occurring abundantly on railroad ties and other dead timber of oak, 
willow, ash and other deciduous trees and more rarely on conif- 
fous wood ; though the broad general distinction between this 
Species and S. hirsuta in regard to host usually holds good, the 
former being common on coniferous wood and the latter on de- 
Ciduous wood. In appearance, there is considerable difference in 
the two species, S. pallidofulva being less brightly colored, and 
less distinctly zoned, with the furrows closer, shorter and more 
Porous. The margin also is white when fresh and turns dark 
when bruised. There is a close resemblance between this species 
and ZL. trabeca (Pers.) Fr., which occurs on deciduous wood in 
Europe. 
The following specimens are at hand: Canada, Dearuess ; New 
Jersey, Elfis » New York, Barnhart, Murrill, Peck ; Ohio, Morgan, 
GG. Lloyd; Indiana, Underwood ; Louisiana, Langlois ; Ken- 
tucky, Miss Price , Tennessee, Murrill 494, 495, 542, 579 * Iowa, 
Macbride, Holway ; Pennsylvania, Rau, Banker. 
SPECIES INQUIRENDAE 
Lenzites mexicana Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. Bot. 20: 360. 
1843. Collected on dead wood in the province of Oaxaca, Mexico, 
A by Andrieux. Apparently a stipitate and otherwise abnormal form 
