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and " aniline black " has too much purple in it to represent Peck's 

 types. 



Redescription. Effused for several centimeters, annual, rather 

 tender, separable, with a thin whitish or yellowish sterile margin 

 when young; subiculum very thin, whitish, rather conspicuous, 

 tubes 2 to 6 mm long, their mouths dingy whitish (fide Peck) when 

 fresh, becoming darker where bruised or dried, fuscous or bister in 

 herbarium specimens, angular, thin-walled but entire, averaging 1.5 

 to 2 to a millimeter; spores ellipsoidal or ovoid, smooth, fuscous, 

 7.5 to II X 4 to 7 ju; cystidia none; trama and subiculum compact, 

 of thin-walled, partially collapsing and irregular hyaline hyphae 

 with inconspicuous cross walls and clamp connections, nearly 

 simple, 1-3 IX in diameter. 



On wood and bark of pine. 



Type locality: Selkirk, X. Y. C. H. Peck. Not otherwise known 

 to the writer. 



Poria radiculosa (Peck) Sacc. 



Plate 16 



Syll. Fung., 6: 314- 1888 



Polyporus radiculosus Peck, 40th Rep't N. Y. State Mus., 

 p. 54. 1887 



Original description. Resupinate, effused, thin, soft, tender, 

 orange-yellow, the mycelium creeping in and over the wood, silky- 

 tomentose, at first white, then yellow, forming numerous yellow 

 branching rootlike strings or ribs which are more or less connected 

 by a soft silky tomentum ; pores rather large, angular, at first shal- 

 low, sunk in the mycelium, the dissepiments becoming more elevated, 

 thin and fragile; spores elliptical, .0002 to .00025 inch long, .00016 

 broad. 



Half-buried chips of poplar. Populus tremuloides. 

 Gansevoort, September. 



The species is allied to P. vaiUantii, in its peculiar 

 rhizomorphoid strings of mycelium, but from this it differs decid- 

 edly in its color and texture. In these respects it approaches P . 

 bombycinus, of which it may possibly be a peculiar variety. 

 It is verv' destructive to the wood on which it grows, causing it to 

 become soft, brittle and even friable. 



Notes. From the standpoint of the type collection this species is 

 the most unsatisfactorv' of all of Peck's Porias. Nothing as to 

 general appearance, color etc., can be added beyond that contained 



