68 TWENTY-SIXTH REPOR1 ON THE STATE MUSEOM. 
sus, from which it differs in its more tomentose pileus, larger 
tubes, smaller spores and smoother stem. 
Potyprorts c#RULEoPORtS Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, subtomentose, moist or hygro- 
phanous, brown; pores short, angular, decurrent, grayish-blue ; 
stem central or eccentric, solid, colored like the pilens, sometimes 
tinged with the color of the pores; flesh white. 
Plant gregarious or subceespitose, 2’ high, pileus 12’ broad, 
stem 2”—3" thick. 
Moist shaded banks. Copake. October. 
The peculiar color of the pores is a characteristic feature in this 
species. It and the three following species belong to the section 
Mesopus. 
Potyrorus eriseus Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, often irregular, smooth or with 
a minute appressed silkiness, dry, gray; pores small, short, 
unequal, somewhat angular, pallid, the mouths white; stem cen- 
tral, thick, short, concolorons ; flesh pinkish-gray. , 
Plant 2’-3’ high, pileus 3’—5’ broad, stem 6-10” thick. 
Shaded banks, Copake. October. 
The pores are sometimes decurrent and the walls or dissepiments 
are thickened on the edge. 
Potyporus FLAvipus Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, depressed or funnel-form, smooth, rarely a 
little villous on the disk, zonate, yellow with darker bands, the 
margin sometimes lobed and wavy; pores short, minute, angular, 
yellow ; stem central, solid, slightly tapering downwards, smooth, 
subconcolorous. 
Plant 3’-5’ high, pileus 2-4’ broad, stem 3’’-4” thick. 
Ground in woods. Worcester. July. 
Potyporus sPLENDENS Peck. 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, expanded, subumbilicate, slightly zonate, 
silky, with close radiating fibers, shining, dark -ferruginous when 
moist, tawny ferruginous when dry, the margin deeply fimbriate ; 
pores small, angular, short; subconcolorous; stem slender, equal, 
tomentose, concolorous. 
Plant 1’ high, pileus 6’—10" broad, stem .5’-1” thick. 
Much decayed stumps. Center. August. 
This is smaller, thinner, brighter colored and more shining than 
