636 Murrill: Polyporaceae of North America 



sonrl, Dc-mctrio ; Iowa, Hohvaj' ; Nebraska, Webber; Montana,. 



Anderson. 



3. Bjerkandera fragrans (Peck) 



Poljponis fragrans Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30 : 45. 1878. 



Described from specimens collected on decaying trunks of elm 



trees near Bethlehem, New York, in October. The following note 



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is appended to the description : " This species is closely related to 

 P, adustus and P.fuuiosus, from which it is readily separated by 

 the unequal pores. Its odor when fresh is very decided and quite 

 agreeable, being not much unlike that of dry Seneca grass." 



In a later report Peck says : '' After heavy rains this fungus 

 has a moist brownish appearance tinged slightly with dull red, and 

 is obscurely zonate. It is paler when dry and sometimes slightly 

 spotted. It is very closely allied to P,fiunosus^ and perhaps ought ' 

 to be considered a mere variety of it. " It is distinguished by its 

 agreeable odor and by the thinner and sometimes lacerated dis- 

 sepiments of its more unequal and angular pores." 



Since Peck first described it, specimens have been collected on 

 several other deciduous hosts beside elm and in many other states 

 beside ' New York and Vermont, as the following will show : 

 Canada, J/a£:(?////, Dcarness ; Vermont, Morgan^ Brainerd ; New 

 York, Peck, Cook, Miss Overacker ; New Jersey, Cardiff ; Kansas, 

 Swingle, Cragifi, Bartholouieiv ; Missouri, Demetrio ; Wisconsin, 

 Baker ; Nebraska, Webber ; Michigan, Langdon, 



Species inquirendae 



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PoLYPORUS TEREBRANS B. & C. JouH Linn. Soc. Bot. 10 : 306. 

 1868. Collected by Wright on dead trees in Cuba and thus 

 described : . 



'* PHeo subcarnoso, crasso, convexo, flabelliformi, luteo, pubescentl-scabro ; stip- 

 ite crasso lateraliter cocnpresso, matrici pro magna parte, immerso, pubescente; pileo 

 concolore ; hymenio convexo, albido ; poris parvis, acie obtusis. 



*'Pileus \)4. inch long, \)^ wide; stem ^ inch long and thick; pores ^\ inch 

 across, probably much contracted/' 



Only one poor specimen is to be found at Kew, which resem- 

 bles Piptoporus suberosiis in general form. The stipe appears abnor- 

 mal as though the result of an effort on the part of the sporophore 

 to escape from the substratum. The hymenium i^ now quite dark 



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