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u a t a , but is not ready to suggest any other disposition of it at 

 present. The type collection contains but a few small fragments of 

 the plant (plate 2, figure 3). An excellent collection of this plant 

 was obtained by the writer in New Hampshire in 191 8. 



Redescription. Effused, annual, probably separable, with a nar- 

 row, white, pubescent margin about .5 mm broad; subiculum 

 extremely thin, whitish ; tubes less than .5 mm long, their mouths 

 light buflf to tilleul buff at present, apparently somewhat incarnate 

 when fresh, subangular, rather thin-walled, averaging 5 to 6 to the 

 millimeter, entire, or gaping in oblique situations, the hymenium 

 considerably cracked when dry ; spores allantoid, hyaline, 4 to 5 x 

 T //,; cystidia none, but large subcylindrical pegs of hyphae project at 

 irregular intervals into the lumen of the tubes ; trama and subiculum 

 compact, of hyaline, thin-walled hyphae 2 to 3.5 fx in diameter, 

 rarely branched, some heavily encrusted with coarse crystals but 

 mostly smooth ; cross walls not conspicuous and in many hyphae 

 apparently lacking ; clamp connections lacking. 



On fallen branches of Tsuga canadensis. 



Type locality: Alcove, N. Y., C. L. Shear. Also in Xew Hamp- 

 shire. 



Poria aurea Peck 



Plate 3, figures 1-4; plate 4, figures 1-2 



43d Rep't N. Y. State Mus., p. 21. 1890. 



Original description. Effused, forming patches of several inches 

 in extent, 2 to 3 lines thick, separable from the matrix, golden yel- 

 low; subiculum thin, subgelatinous, the young margin byssoid or 

 fimbriate, greenish yellow, soon disappearing; pores small, subro- 

 tund, elongated, the dissepiments thin, rather soft ; spores minute, 

 subelliptical, .00016 to .0002 in. long .0008 to .00012 broad. 



Decaying wood of maple, Acer saccharinum. Sevey. 



Apparently closely related to Poria xantha, but separable 

 from the matrix and remarkable for its somewhat gelatinous subi- 

 culum. It is an attractive species. 



Notes. Considerable confusion exists as to this species. The 

 herbarium sheet at Albany contains three different collections. The 

 specimens marked types are four in number. According to the 

 original description, the type collection was made at Seve}^ N. Y., 

 in July, from the wood of Acer saccharinum, and the 

 single label on the herbarium sheet records that as the substratum. 

 But the other two collections are both from wood of coniferous 

 trees and one of them agrees in all respects with the specimens on 



