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averaging I mm. in breadth, edges thin, uneven to lacerate- 

 too thed, brown or grayish-umbrinous. 

 Found once on dead wood in Texas. 



3. FUNALIA STUPPEA (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus corky to woody, variable in size, dimidiate, decurrent, 

 imbricate, convex above, 2-6 X 5-12 X 0.5-3 cm.; surface 

 ferruginous to fulvous, hirsute to villose, azonate, sulcate at 

 times; margin thin or rounded, concolorous, entire or slightly 

 undulate; context isabelline, zonate, corky to woody, duplex 

 in large specimens, being softer above, 0.3-1.5 cm. thick; tubes 

 rather long, 3-12 mm., whitish-isabelline within, mouths rather 

 variable in size, subcircular to angular, distorted with age, 

 averaging about I mm. in diameter, edges thin, fimbriate to 

 toothed, isabelline to fuscous; spores oblong or slightly curved, 

 H-I3 X 3-5-4 M- 



Occasional west of the Mississippi River on dead poplar trunks 

 and less common on willow and a few other trees. Very similar 

 in some of its forms to Trametes hispida Bagl. of Europe. 



23. HAPALOPILUS P. Karst. 



Hymenophore annual, rarely perennial, epixylous, sessile, 

 dimidiate, simple or imbricate; surface anoderm, rarely pellicu- 

 lose, zonate or azonate, usually brown and glabrous; context 

 brown, leathery or corky, tough or rarely friable when dry; 

 hymenium usually differently colored, tubes small, thin-walled; 

 spores small, usually ovoid, hyaline. 



Hymenium concolorous; pileus smooth, entirely devoid of 



zones or furrows; context soft and friable. i. H. rutilans. 



Hymenium differently colored; pileus rarely smooth; context 



rigid or corky, not friable. 

 Hymenium lilac-colored, tubes I cm. or more in length; 



pileus concentrically sulcate. 2. H. sublilacinus. 



Hymenium dark-brown, tubes less than 0.5 cm. in length; 



pileus smooth or zonate. 

 Context rigid ; pileus azonate or with few and indefinite 



markings. 3. H. gilvus. 



Context flexible when hymenophore is expanded ; pileus 



plainly and definitely multizonate. 4. H. licnoides, 



I. HAPALOPILUS RUTILANS (Pers.) Murrill 



Pileus thick, convex above and below, very soft, fleshy, 

 dimidiate, usually broadly attached, more or less imbricate at 



