654 Murrill: Polyporaceae of North America 



molUuscuhis is here thrown into synonymy only after a careful 

 examination of the original specimens, which fully warrant this 

 disposition of a troublesome name. 



Specimens are at hand from Canada, Dearness ; New Hamp- 

 shire, Miss Mmns ; New York, Murrill ; New Jersey, Ellis ; Dela- 

 ware, Commons ; Pennsylvania, Barbour ; West Virginia, Nuttall ; 

 Florida, Calkins ; Alabama, j5^a/^^;^, Underzvood^Earle ; Louisiana, 



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Langlois ; Ohio, Lloyd; Missouri, Demetrio ; Kansas, Cragiu ; 

 Iowa. Mac bride. 



25. CoRiOLUS ABiETiNus (Dicks.) Quel. 



Boletus ahietinus Dicks. PL Crypt. Brit 3 : 21. pL p. /. p. 1793- 

 Boletus incarnatus Schum. Enum. PI. Saell. 2 : 391. 1803. 



Coriolus abieiinus Quel. Ench. Fung. 175. 18S6. 



A good description of this plant is to be found in the Magazin 

 fur Botanik 12 : 19. 1790, presumably written by Schrank, but I 

 hesitate to ascribe the species to him on the basis of this citation. 

 It seems quite certain that Sistotrcma fuscoviolaceiini Pers. is a 

 form of the present species ; and, according to Bresadola, P. caesio- 

 albus Karst. is not specifically distinct 



This species has been well known for a long time by reason of 

 its abundance throughout the northern hemisphere on decaying 



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wood of coniferous trees, none of which appear to be exempt from 



its attack. Of the large number of specimens examined, the fol- 

 lowing may be mentioned : 



Finland, Karsten ; Tyrol, Bresadola ; Newfoundland, Wag- 



home ; Canada, Macoun ; New York, Shear, Undenvood, Peck; 



New Jersey, Ellis ; South Carolina, Ravenel ; Georgia, Harper ; 



Alabama, Mell ; Cuba, Undenvood & Earle ijjy ; Texas^ 



Ravenel; California, McClatchie ; Colorado, Bethel. 



26. Coriolus pargamenus (Fr.) Pat 



Polypoms parvulus Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 4: 157. 1834- 



Not P. pa}^tihis Kl. Linnaea 8 : 483. 1833. 

 Polypoms pargamenus Fr. Epicr. 480. 1838. 

 Polypoms laceratus ^evk. Ann. Mag, Nat Hist 3: 392. 1839. 

 Polypoms Menandianus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 11. 20 : 362. 



1843. 



