Murrill: P0LYPORACE.E OF North America 89 



416 ; Ell. & Ev. N. A. Fung. 1^24, 1925, 1926, ig2j, ig28 ; 

 Underw. & Cook, Illus. Fung. 18 ; Shear, N. Y. Fung. 4,0; 

 Q'dSid.did., Macoini^ Dearness ; lAdAw^, Blake, Miss White; Connecti- 



cut, Seymour^ Earle, Miss White, Uudcrivood ; New York, Barbour, 

 Peck, Mrs, Britton, Underwood, Earle, Murrill ; New Jersey, 

 Mxrtin late, Earle, Andsrso 7, Murrill ; Delaware, Com mans ; 

 Pennsylv^ania, Stevenson, Sumstine, Gcn'ry ; Maryland, Miss Ban- 

 ning, Shcar^ Richer; Virginia, Murrill; North Carolina, Mem- 

 minger ; Georgia, Harpsr 2Djja, 2ope ; Alabama, £:?r/^, Bah'r ; 

 Louisiana, Langlois ; Florida, Calkins ; Ohio, Morgan; Tennes- 

 see, Mnrrill S94. 6oy ; Kansas, Bartholomew ; Wisconsin, Baker; 

 Texas, Hodson, 



4. Agaricus Aesculi (Schw.) 



Boletus Aesculi fiavae Schw. Syn. Fung. Car. 70. 18 18. 



Polyponis Aesculi Fr. Elench. 99, 18 18. 



Tram:tcs incana Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4 : 305. 1845. Not 71 



incana Lev. 

 Daedalca autbiorua Berk. Lond. Tour. Bot. 4: 305. 1845. 



Trametes avibigua Fr, Nov, Symb. 96. 185 1. 

 Trametes lactea Fr. Nov. Symb. 96. 185 i. 

 Lenzites glaberrima B. & C. Grevillea I : 34. 1872. 

 Daedalea glaberrinia B. & C. Grevillea i : ^J. 18^2. 

 Trametes Berkeleyi Cooke in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 1 94. 1891. 



Aesculi Jl I 



by 



which is as follows : 



" B. minor subimbricatus, pileo dimidiato duriusculo fornicato 

 glabriusculo pallido marglne sterili, poris minutis sulphureis." 



" In arboribus, imprimis Aesculi jlavae Wilkes County, ^ ad 

 ripam Yadhin. Caespites duas tresve uncias longi. Parum im- 

 bricatus, fere simplex. Pileus suberosus, subtenuis, basi crassior, 

 glaber, tactu subtomentosus. Fori demum nigrescunt." 



This is not a good description of the plant. Several state- 

 ments in it are misleading as well as incomplete. It is possible 



that Schweinitz confused this species with one ordinarily known 

 as P. hemilc2(cus, rather common in the Carolinas. This supposi- 

 tion would account for Fries' remark with reference to the speci- 

 men sent him by Schweinitz that it was " rubigiiiosusl' How- 



