426 MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Meralius corium. Fr. 



Resupinate, effused, soft, papery, circumference at length free, reflexed, 

 white, villous below. Hymenium netted, porus, pallid, tan-color. 

 Found on decaying- branches. Quite common. 



Merulius lacrymans. Fr. 



Resupinate, fleshy, spongy, moist, tender, at first very light, cottony and 

 white; when the veins appear they are of a fine yellow, orange or reddish-brown, 

 forming irregular folds, so arranged to have the appearance of pores (but never 

 anything like tubes), distilling when perfect drops of water which give rise to the 

 specific name "weeping." 



Dr. Charles W. Hoyt of Chillicothe, brought to my office two or three plants 

 of this species that had grown on the under side of the floor in his wash-house. 

 When he took up the floor the workmen discovered a number of pendant processes, 

 some oval, some cone-shaped. Some were eight inches long, very white and 

 beautiful but clearly illustrating the weeping process. The doctor called them 

 white rats suspended by their tails. 



Dcrdalea. Pers. 



Daedalea is used with reference to the labyrinthiform pores ; so named after 

 Daedalos, the builder of the labyrinth of Crete. 



The hymenophore decends into the trama without any change, pores firm, 

 when fully grown sinuous and labyrinthiform, lacerated, and toothed. The habits 

 of Daedalea are very much the same as Trametes, but they are inodorous. Care 

 should be taken not to confound them with the species of Polyporus that have 

 elongated curved pores. 



Dcedalea ambigua. Berk. 



The pileus is white, corky, horizontal, explanate, reniform, subsessile, azonate, 

 finely pubescent, becoming smooth. 



Pores from round to linear and labyrinthiform, the dissepiments always 

 obtuse and never lamellate. 



It is a very common growth in Ohio, found on old logs of the sugar maple. 

 You will see the' beginning of the growth in the spring as a round white nodule 



