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isabelline, membranous; tubes very short, grayish-isabelline 

 within, mouths fairly regular, circular to slightly angular, 3-4 

 to a mm., edges white to grayish-white and finally isabelline, 

 rather thick at first, becoming thin, entire and slightly uneven. 

 Frequent on dead wood throughout. 



22. FUNALIA Pat. 



Hymenophore annual, epixylous, sessile, dimidiate, often semi- 

 resupinate; surface anoderm, hairy to aculeate; context light- 

 brown, more or less duplex, spongy above, coriaceous to woody 

 below; tubes usually large, thin-walled, more or less lacerate; 

 spores smooth, hyaline. 



Context very thin, 1-2 mm. 



Surface villose, with simple hairs; hymenium pale-rose- 

 tinted when fresh. I. F. versatilis. 

 Surface strigose, with branched hairs; hymenium pallid to 



brown. 2. F. cladotricha. 



Context usually 3-15 mm. thick; surface villose or hirsute. 3. F. stuppea. 



i. FUNALIA VERSATILIS (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus effused-reflexed, imbricate, laterally connate, coriaceous, 

 the reflexed portion 2-3 X 3-6 X 0.3-0.8 cm.; surface villose, 

 spuriously and opaquely zoned, grayish -white, becoming um- 

 brinous to ferruginous behind with age; margin thin, acute, 

 concolorous, undulate to lobed; context pallid, very thin, mem- 

 branous, fibrous, scarcely a mm. thick; tubes slender, 5-7 mm. 

 long, isabelline within, mouths very variable in size and shape, 

 0.5-2 mm. broad, circular to angular or slightly daedaleoid, 

 edges thin, entire to toothed, grayish-isabelline, pale-rose-tinted 

 when fresh; spores oblong-allantoid, 6-8 X 2-4 ju. 



Frequent on dead deciduous and coniferous wood in Florida 

 and Louisiana. Funalia villosa (Sw.) Murrill is not distinct. 

 Boletus villosus Sw. is Coriolus pinsitus (Fries) Pat., but Swartz' 

 name cannot be used because B. villosus Huds. has priority. 



2. FUNALIA CLADOTRICHA (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill 



Pileus dimidiate, sometimes effused-reflexed, 2-5 X 3-8 X 

 0.5-0.8 cm. ; surface brown, conspicuously covered with branched, 

 strigose hairs, which are somewhat concentrically arranged in 

 zones, especially near the margin, which is thin, concolorous, 

 undulate; context thin, soft-corky to spongy, brown, 1-2 mm. 

 thick; tubes long, uneven, irregular and variable in size, grayish- 

 brown within, 3-7 mm. long, mouths angular to daedaleoid, 



