26 SOUTHERN POLYPORES 



2. SCUTIGER RETIPES (Underw.) Murrill 



Pileus reniform to circular, convex, 6-15 cm. broad, 1-2.5 

 cm. thick; surface umbrinous to fuliginous, appressed tomen- 

 tose, finely areolate-rimose, appearing papillate when dry; 

 margin acute, concolorous, inflexed when dry; context fleshy, 

 white, 2 cm. thick when fresh, becoming quite thin on drying; 

 tubes decurrent half the length of the stipe, large, shallow, 1-2 

 mm. broad, mostly hexagonal, edges thin, whitish, finely lacerate; 

 stipe eccentric, yellowish-white toward the base, white and 

 fleshy within, 4-6 cm. long, 2 cm. or more thick. 



Occasional on the ground in pine woods in North Carolina 

 and Alabama. 



3. SCUTIGER LAETICOLOR Murrill 



Pileus circular in outline, often irregular, convex, depressed 

 at the center, 10-20 cm. broad, about I cm. thick; surface 

 smooth, becoming glabrous, pale-dingy-yellow when fresh, 

 brick-colored to purplish-red in old dried plants; margin acute, 

 inflexed at first, irregularly undulate; context fleshy-tough, 

 homogeneous, pale-rose-colored, 5-10 mm. thick; tubes decur- 

 rent, white, becoming dark-orange within and without, 1-2 mm. 

 long, mouths subcircular or angular, 5 to a mm., edges thin, 

 fimbriate; spores ovoid, copious, 5-6 X 4/*; stipe short, thick, 

 increasing upward, central or eccentric, 2-3 cm. long, 1-3 cm. 

 thick, resembling the pileus in color, but solid, firm and tough, 

 with darker flesh. 



Occasional on the ground in woods in South Carolina and 

 Alabama. 



4. SCUTIGER CAERULEOPORUS (Peck) Murrill 



Pilei gregarious or cespitose; pileus broadly convex, circular 

 in outline, 2.5-5 X 0.7-1 cm.; surface subtomentose, hygro- 

 phanous when fresh, isabelline to fulvous; context fleshy, fragile, 

 white, becoming yellowish-white when dry; tubes decurrent, 

 short, 3-5 mm. long, grayish-blue when fresh, becoming lateri- 

 ceous within in dried specimens, mouths angular, irregular, 

 2-3 to a mm., edges thin, uneven, toothed, grayish-blue when 

 fresh, becoming bay in dried specimens; stipe central or eccentric, 

 solid, concolorous or tinged with the color of the pores, 4-5 cm. 

 long, about 5 mm. thick. 



Occasional on the ground in woods in western North Carolina. 

 Scutiger holocyaneus (Atk.) Murrill is not distinct. 



