SOUTHERN POLYPORES 25 



i. ABORTIPORUS DISTORTUS (Schw.) Murrill 



Pileus normally thin, plane or depressed, circular and centrally 

 stipitate when properly developed, but often aborted and very 

 irregular, varying to entirely resupinate forms, 6-13 cm. in 

 diameter, 0.3-1 cm. thick; surface conspicuously and compactly 

 tomentose, anoderm, azonate, smooth, white to alutaceous; 

 margin thin, undulate to lobed, concolorous; context soft and 

 spongy above, hard and woody below, white or isabelline, 3-5 

 mm. thick; tubes annual, decurrent, white, 1-5 mm. long, mouths 

 irregular, variable, 2-3 to a mm., edges thin, entire to dentate; 

 spores subglobose, 5-7 p. long; stipe central, unequal, very vari- 

 able, often obsolete, resembling the pileus in surface and context. 



Frequent throughout about stumps and buried wood of 

 deciduous trees. 



15. SCUTIGER Paulet 



Hymenophore simple, terrestrial, annual, mesopous, usually 

 bright-colored; surface anoderm, variously decorated; context 

 white, rarely colored, fleshy to tough, rigid and fragile when 

 dry ; hymenium porose, white or colored, tubes thin-walled ; spores 

 smooth or rarely echinulate, hyaline. 



Surface of pileus squamose. 



Pileus yellow. I. 5. Ellisii. 



Pileus brown. 2. S. retipes. 

 Surface of pileus glabrous or tomentose. 



Pileus yellow to red. 3. S. laeticolor. 



Pileus blue when fresh, changing to brown on drying. 4. 5. caeruleoporus. 



Pileus gray; stipe gray. 5. 5. griseus. 



Pileus brown; stipe dark-purple. 6. S. persicinus. 



i. SCUTIGER ELLISII (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus reniform, convex, cespitose, 12-15 cm - broad, 1-2 cm, 

 thick; surface sulfur-yellow with a greenish tint, very rough, 

 with broad, floccose, imbricate scales; margin thick, con- 

 colorous, inflexed; context white or slightly yellowish, fleshy, 

 firm, rather hard when dry, with a strong unpleasant odor when 

 fresh, I cm. or more thick; tubes subdecurrent, 3-5 mm. long, 

 mouths large, 1-2 to a mm., irregular, angular, edges thin, white 

 to yellowish, changing to greenish where wounded; spores ovoid, 

 smooth, 9 X 6 n; stipe lateral or eccentric, slightly flattened, 

 irregularly roughened, solid, subreticulate, dark-yellow, hard 

 and corky within, 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. thick. 



Found rarely on clayey soil in low woods in South Carolina 

 and Alabama. 



