REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 45 
POLYPORUS NIDULANS FY’. 
Dead oak and birch branches lying on the ground. Sand- 
lake, North Greenbush and Adirondack Mts. 
Our specimens are not villous and are fragrant when fresh, 
not when dry. This would indicate that they should be referred 
to P. rutilans, but the unequal pores forbid such a reference. 
It is surprising how few of our fungi agree accurately with the 
descriptions of published species. Either we have many more 
species peculiar to this country than has been supposed, or 
else many species have been very imperfectly described. 
POLYPORUS (ANODERMEI) FRAGRANS 2. Sp. 
Fragrant ; pileus fleshy, tough, effuso-reflexed, imbricating, 
one to two inches long, two to four broad, rather thin but some- 
times thickened at the base, velvety to the touch and clothed 
with a minute innate tomentum, pale reddish-grey or aluta- 
ceous, the thin margin concolorous and sometimes a little 
roughened, often sterile beneath ; flesh slightly fibrous, zonate, 
concolorous ; pores minute, unequal angular, about one line 
long, the dissepiments thin, acute, toothed or lacerated, whitish, - 
becoming darker with age and blackish-stained when bruised. 
Decaying trunks of elm trees. Bethlehem. October. 
This species is closely related to P. adustus and P. fumosus, 
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. The species has been 
collected in Vermont also by Mr. A. P. Morgan. 
PoLyPORUS (PLACODERMEI) ALBELLUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus thick, sessile, convex or subungulate, subsolitary, 
two to four inches broad, one to one and a half thick, fleshy, 
- rather soft, the adnate cuticle very thin, smooth or sometimes 
slightly roughened by a slight strigose tomentum, especially 
toward the margin, whitish tinged more or less with fuscous ; 
flesh pure white, odor acidulous; pores nearly plain, minute, 
subrotund, about two lines long, white inclining to yellowish, 
the dissepiments thin, acute ; spores minute, cylindrical, curved, 
white, .00016—.0002' long. 
Decaying trunks and branches of birch trees. Helderberg 
Mts. October. | 
This species appears to be related to P. paradoxus, but the 
texture is manifestly firmer than in that and softer than in P. 
betulinus. 
