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This species is remarkable for the abundance of its spores. It is so 
deformed and apparently imperfect in its development that such fruit- 
fulness would scarcely be expected. ‘The pileus, when sufficiently de- 
veloped to be recognizable, is of a reddish or alutaceous color. 
Polyporus epileucus, /7. var. candidus, Pé. 
Decaying prostrate trunks of hemlock, Abwes canadensis. Osceola, 
Lewis county. Aug. 
Pileus snowy-white, scrupose, scarcely villose, somewhat fibrous 
within and slightly zonate toward the margin ; pores plane or convex. 
Our specimens, while not agreeing fully with the published characters 
of P. epileucus, approximate so closely to them that we have character- 
ized this form as a variety. 
Polyporus crispellus, 7. sp. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, laterally elongated, undulate or subcrispate on the 
margin, radiate-rugose, subglabrous, whitish varied with brownish zones, 
flesh white, marked by a few linear hyaline or slightly colored zones 5 
‘pores short, about equal in length to the thickness of the pileus, minute, 
subrotund, white, the thin dissepiments more or less dentate. 
Pileus 8 to 12 lines broad, extending laterally 1 to 4 inches. 
Prostrate.trunks of hemlock. Osceola. Aug. 
Closely allied to P. destructor, but distinguished by its zonate pileus 
and short pores, It is also apparently thinner and more undulate than 
that species. 
Polyporus (Physisporus) letificus, 2. sp. 
Effused, thin, tender, not readily separable from the matrix, bright 
orange with a subtomentose yellowish margin , tubes short, often oblique 
. minute, subrotund,.the dissepiments thick, obtuse. 
Decaying wood. South Ballston. Aug. 
The fungus forms patches two or three inches long, following the ine- 
qualities of the surface. In the dried state the pores appear like little 
ruptured vesicles as in P. vesiculosus, B. & C. The species ap- 
pears to approach P. fulgens, Rost., which has the margin white fibril- 
lose and the pores acute. 
Polyporus (Physisporus) griseoalbus, x. sp. 
Effused, thin, tender, adnate, uneven, scarcely margined, indetermi- 
nate, grayish-white, with a thin pulverulent subiculum; pores very 
minute, subrotund, often oblique. 
Soft decaying wood of deciduous trees. Osceola. July. 
The pores are sometimes collected in little heaps or tubercles as in 
P. molluscus and P. Vaillantii. Inthe dried state they are slightly 
tinged with creamy yellow. 
Polyporus (Physisporus) fimbriatellus, x. sp. 
Widely effused, thin, tenacious, separable from the matrix, with a thin 
white fimbriate margin and a white subiculum, running into rhizomor- 
