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Pers,, but the author, who was at that tune but little acquainted 

 with oriental forms, thinks that the stipe and pores sufficiently 

 distinguish it from Persoon's species. 



This eKceedingly variable and very attractive species is abun- 

 dant on decaying wood in tropical America. In some localities 

 the young sporophores, although tough, are used as food by the 

 natives. It differs from A. Aesciili in being thin and flexible and 

 usually much more zonate, though at times the two species are 

 not easily distinguished. One is here forcibly reminded of Fycno- 



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poms cinnabanmcs and Pycnopor us sanguineus^ which exhibit much 

 the same relations, indicating that the effect of tropical conditions 

 may be to produce a thinner, more expanded and more zonate 

 sporophore. 



Specimens are at hand from Florida, C, G. Lloyd ; Bahamas, 

 Mrs, Britton yyj, 8^j ; Porto Rico, Wilson 2g^ ; Hayti, Nash 

 2j^, 2^0; Cuba, Uyiderxvood & Earle 1^22^ Hamilton ; Mexico, 

 Egeling ; Nicaragua, Smith ; British Guiana, Millspaugh i3S2g ; 

 Honduras, Wilson 411 ; Yucatan, Millspaugh sySoo ; Colombia, 



Baker. 



Species inquirendae 



Daedalea sitbtonicntosa Schw, Syn. Fung. Car. 68. 18 18. De- 

 scribed from North Carolina material as follows : 



" D. minor gibbosa, zonis elevatis subtomentosis albida, sinu- 

 bus poriformibus angustis albis et pallidis. Passim. Species non 

 valde distincta. Pileus glaber tuberculosus." 



This is very probably another synonym of A, confragosus,h\x\. 

 I have not been able to find type material. Even Schweinitz him- 

 self says that it is not a v^xy distinct species. 



Irpex inaximus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. Bot. 8: 364, 1837. 

 Syll. Crypt. 174. 1856. Poly poms labyrinthicus Mont. Cuba, 

 406. 1842 (not P. labyrinthicus Fr. Elench. 83. 1828). 



This species was described from material collected by Ramon 



de la Sagra on the trunks of trees in Cuba. Montagne*s earlier 



description is as follows : 



" Pileo coriaceo tenui reniformi plano-conv^exo velutino mar- 

 ginem versus repandura acutum concentrice sulcato demum basi 

 glabrescenti subradiato dentibusque confertis acutis pubescentibus 

 ochroleucis/' 



