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somewhat stipitate, fleshy, pliant. Annual, growing on wood, differing 

 in entire appearance and structure from the preceding genera, where- 

 fore they were formerly referred not to Polypori but to Cantharelli 

 or Merulii, Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 590." 



In Mycologic Flora Miami Valley, April, 1886, p. 5, Morgan 

 describes our species and gives the following notes concerning it : 



'■'■ Favolus Canadensis Klotzsch." 



"Pileus fleshy tough, thin, reniform, fibrillose scaly and tawny, 

 becoming pale and glabrous. Stipe eccentric or lateral, very short or 

 obsolete. Alveoli angular, elongated, whitish ; the dissepiments 

 becoming thin, rigid and dentate, spores oblong, .012 by .007 m. m. 



" In woods on fallen branches, especially of hickory. Common. 

 Pileus 1-2}^ inches in breadth, sessile or with a very short stipe. 

 Specimens with an excentric stipe resemble Polyporus le?itus Berk., but 

 the pores are much larger than those of that species. This is 

 undoubtedly the Polyporus Boucheanus Kl. of Lea's Catalogue, as is 

 confirmed in the notices of Berkeley under No. 44 ; but Fries in the 

 Novae Symbols seems to indicate that these American forms are not 

 his species and certainly the description in the Epicrisis does not 

 apply to our plant. Specimens from New England gathered by me 

 are glabrous or scantily fibrillose, and may be the F. Alutaceus B. and 

 Mont. : they are no doubt what is meant by Polyporus Boucheanus Var. 

 peponinus B. and C. in the Notices of N. A. Fungi under No. 44. The 

 original description of Klotzsch was based upon a single specimen in 

 the herbarium of Hooker, and it applies remarkably well to our plant, 

 except that the pileus is sometimes lobed as in F. Alutaceus B. and 

 Mont." 



At this point it is interesting to compare the characters assigned 

 in Epicrisis to the species mentioned, which are subjoined : 



FAVOLUS EUROPyEUS. 



" Pileo carnoso-lento tenui orbiculari glabra laevi albido, stipite 

 brevi lateral!, alveolis profundis subrotundis reticulatis. Merulius 

 Alveolarius Dec. Fr. 5, p. 43. S. M., p. 322. In Gallia meridionali." 



FAVOLUS CANADENSIS. 



" Pileo carnoso-lento rigente reniformi squamoso fulvo, stipite 

 obsoleto, alveolis elongatis tenuibus albidis, Klotzsch in Linn. VII, 

 p. 197. In Canada." 



