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pale flesh-color. No one will 

 fail to recognize it from 

 these cuts. 



Trametes scutellata. Schzv. 



Scutellata means shield- 

 bearing. It is frequently quite 

 small, an inch or less ; coria- 

 ceous, dimidiate, orbiculate or 

 ungulate, fixed by the apex; 

 the pilei quite hard; white, * ICTWt 35*-Tite. ntaeu. 



then brownish and blackish, becoming rugged and uneven, with white margin; 

 hymenium disk-shaped, concave, white-pulverulent becoming dark ; pores minute, 

 long, with thick obtuse dissepiments. This is found on fence posts. 



Trametes Ohiensis. Berk. 



The pilei are pulvinate, narrow, zoned, often laterally confluent ; ochraceous- 

 white, tomentose, then smooth, laccate. This plant resembles T. scutellata in 

 many points, both in habit and in form. 



Trametes suaveolcns. (L.) Fir. 



i 

 Soft at first, pulvinate, white, villous, zoneless ; pores rotund, rather large, 

 obtuse, white, then darker ; anise-scented. Found on willows. 



Merulius. Fr. 



Merulius means a blackbird ; from the color of the fungus. 



Hymenophore covered with the soft waxy hymenium, which is incompletely 

 porus, or arranged in reticulate, sinuous, dentate folds. This genus grows on 

 wood, at first resupinate, expanded ; the hymenophore springing from a mucous 

 mycelium. 



